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More corporate bonds from individual blue-chip companies are trading relatively frequently, signaling that the market’s liquidity is growing in the US and Europe.

Active managers who briefly looked like they might finally have their moment earlier this year are once again confronting a familiar problem: a market rally driven by a tiny group of tech megacaps that diversified portfolios simply can’t keep up with.

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is close to securing a $935 million loan to back its purchase of air cargo specialist World Freight Co., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest in a recent spate of acquisition financings in Asia.

Providence Equity Partners is among suitors exploring an acquisition of Gamma Communications Plc, the London-listed telecommunication services company, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Wall Street securities dealers and money managers are increasingly relying on algorithms to execute even the biggest corporate-bond trades, the latest sign of movement toward electronic trading in a $12 trillion market that was long one of the biggest…

Skeptics including Aegon Asset Management and Barclays Plc are getting ready for April’s credit rally to potentially vanish as quickly as it appeared.

An unexpected pause in Colombia’s interest-rate hikes is threatening to upend local markets, with skepticism over the central bank’s credibility building weeks before a pivotal presidential election.