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I think the biggest news of the day was China’s -0.3% consumer price index for the month of July, and it’s -4.4% producer price index. This was the tenth month in a row of wholesale price deflation, but it was the first month in over two years of consumer price deflation. I am dedicating next week’s Dividend Cafe to the subject of Chinafication.
In keeping with the message of the last two Dividend Cafes, our “credit watch” has a couple interesting things to note. Earnings were covering interest expense on investment grade loans 9.2x over right before the Fed began hiking rates. They are now covering them 8.2x. This is called the Interest Coverage Ratio and a high one is good (more coverage of the interest expense by the earnings of the company). Now, that number will get all the way down to 6x in recessions (2020, 2008, 2002), so this move down is not dramatic, but it is a deterioration that is worth watching. With High Yield it has moved from about 5x to just over 4x. Across the levered loan world total leverage is up a tad (debt divided by earnings), and coverage of the interest expense by either earnings or free cash flow is down a bit. None of these metrics yet indicate anything broken, yet all of them are modestly worse off than they were 12-18 months ago.
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