{"id":1052508,"date":"2025-04-14T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052508"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:54:22","slug":"new-report-companies-are-going-bankrupt-at-the-fastest-rate-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-report-companies-are-going-bankrupt-at-the-fastest-rate-since-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW REPORT: Companies Are Going Bankrupt at the Fastest Rate Since 2010\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cMore companies filed for bankruptcy-court protection in the first three months of this year than in any first quarter since 2010, according to data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. \u2026 190 U.S. companies filed for bankruptcy protection in January through March.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-14-25\/card\/companies-are-going-bankrupt-at-the-fastest-rate-since-2010-mkBYAFmgfqRA0ZmAi6uE\"><strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Companies Are Going Bankrupt at the Fastest Rate Since 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Matt Wirz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>More companies filed for bankruptcy-court protection in the first three months of this year than in any first quarter since 2010, according to data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>190 U.S. companies filed for bankruptcy protection in January through March.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Industrial and consumer-discretionary companies made up the largest industry blocks, with 32 and 24 filings, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Potentially more worrisome, three of the largest filings were from technology and media companies \u2026 Each had more than $1 billion of liabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>An uptick in tech defaults would foist losses on the private-credit funds,<\/strong> insurers and vehicles known as collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs, that bought much of the debt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cMore companies filed for bankruptcy-court protection in the first three months of this year than in any first quarter since 2010, according to data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. \u2026 190 U.S. companies filed for bankruptcy protection in January through March.\u201d Wall Street Journal: Companies Are Going Bankrupt at the Fastest Rate Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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