Corporate Finance

Sellers desperate for funding swallow double-digit costs around the world.

By April 3, borrowing was already more difficult, as demand for cash increased and companies' internally generated cash flows shrunk.

Three 'massive' market events in 20 years have dealt a blow to the pensions that more than 10 million Americans rely on.

Most companies are past the decision of whether to draw on their bank facilities, but an even bigger challenge looms straight ahead.

Company chiefs need to be able to answer the following questions: In the face of a brewing mess that may be played out in public, when should crisis management begin, and to whom should they turn to handle corporate calamities?

Lenders are suddenly raising prices and placing anti–cash-hoarding stipulations, interest-rate floors, and mandatory prepayment clauses into new loans, even with investment-grade borrowers.

A Q&A on how companies should manage decisions about public (and internal) disclosures when an employee or executive receives a positive diagnosis.

Strategists weigh in on the challenges created for investors.