medium · Debt Capital Markets credit-ratings-risk
A corporate issuer is downgraded from Baa3 to Ba1. Which phenomenon most likely explains the subsequent spread widening beyond what the one-notch fundamental change would suggest?
- Forced selling by mandate-constrained investors
- A sudden increase in the risk-free rate
- Negative convexity in the issuer's bullet bonds
- The pull to par effect
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