The number of companies at greatest risk of buckling under their debts has seen its biggest one-month fall in five years, the first time this indicator has signalled strongly that the current default cycle might have turned.
Standard & Poor's, the credit rating agency, recorded 226 of the so-called weakest links at December 15 with $220.5bn of debt outstanding.
S&P defines weakest links as borrowers with junk bonds with ratings of B minus or lower and at risk of further downgrades.
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