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Global Corporate Bond Yield Premiums Fall to Lowest Since 2007By Finbarr FlynnJanuary 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM UTCInvestors across global credit markets are accepting the lowest yield premiums on corporate debt in almost two decades, heartened by a resilient economic outlook.Spreads have narrowed to 103 basis points, the least since June 2007 in the runup to the global financial crisis, a Bloomberg index of bonds across currencies and ratings shows. A gauge for junk notes set a similar milestone.Money managers have been diving into the rally in credit due to the prospects of interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and some other central banks. Such easing would help the global economy navigate threats from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and geopolitical tensions. Earlier this week, the World Bank raised its forecast for global real gross domestic product to rise by 2.6%.Declines in credit yield premiums, however, can present investors with a paradox. Money managers don’t want to miss out on a hot market. But they also must accept a smaller amount of compensation against risks, of which there are plenty swirling, including unpredictable US policy and the potential that easier monetary policy could allow inflation to quicken again.“Complacency should be the scariest word in risk markets right now,” said Luke Hickmore, an investment director for fixed income at Aberdeen Investments. “All you can do is not lean too hard into high-risk areas.”Companies have issued roughly $435 billion of bonds in the first half of January, a record for the period, and more than a third above last year’s tally at this point, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Thursday raised $16 billion with the largest investment-grade debt sale ever from a Wall Street bank, in what’s expected to be a record year of corporate bond issuance.Buoyant DemandSo far, the flood of supply isn’t prompting any retrenchment, as strong demand is soaking it up. That’s leaving 2026 off to a strong start, building on excess returns over Treasuries for both dollar-denominated investment-grade and junk bonds over the past three years.Asia was particularly strong, in part due to investors chasing a smaller pool of deals. High-grade dollar debt from the region’s companies returned 8.7% in 2025, about 1 percentage point more than a similar gauge of US securities.For broader global credit markets, other major firms have also warned against investors letting their guard down.“Strong recent returns have fueled complacency,” Pacific Investment Management Co. authors Tiffany Wilding and Andrew Balls wrote in a research note this month.Pimco is becoming more selective about where it deploys its funds in the asset class due to expectation that fundamentals will deteriorate, they said.