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loan

[lohn] / loʊn /




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But buying shares of a BDC isn’t like buying a loan or a bond and just collecting the payments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Federal prosecutors are probing a BlackRock private-credit fund that surprised investors with a sharp write-down of its loan portfolio earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Think twice before refinancing this $100,000 loan; it will be hard to find another with the same benefits.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

The 10-year bond yield - effectively the interest rate charged to the UK government for a 10-year loan - rose above 5.14% at one point on Friday, the highest for 18 years.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The document offered a fifteen-year, fixed-rate loan, but it was bizarrely disguised as a thirty-year loan.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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