MARC expects slower corporate debt issuance this year


MARC estimates that the total gross issuance of corporate bonds in 2020 will moderate to about RM80bil to RM90bi

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Rating Corp Bhd (MARC) expects corporate debt issuance to soften this year due to the economic shock led by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic as business and consumer activity freeze.

In a statement yesterday, chairman Datuk Azizan Abd Rahman said that the Covid-19 pandemic had sharply contracted every economic sector and impacted all social divides.

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