Debt & disease: As opportunism overcame COVID-19 concerns, companies raised record debt financings i

Resiliency was the name of the game as opportunism overcame fear in Canada’s corporate debt capital markets in 2020. Even as COVID-19 ravaged the globe, many companies, motivated no doubt by the uncertain future, shored up their finances by taking on cheap and accessible debt early. Statistics compiled by Financial Post Data show that the corporate...