There are jitters among America’s corporate lenders. There have been high profile defaults of big borrowers like Tricolor Holdings and First Brands, which collapsed just weeks apart. Then, last month, investors rushed to pull their money from a fund operated by Blue Owl, a private credit behemoth. With energy costs spiking and interest rate cuts now looking less likely, how much trouble are America’s corporate borrowers in?
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