3 Things in Credit: March 19, 2021

In this week's episode of 3 Things in Credit, KBRA Chief Strategist Van Hesser discusses: 1. The Fed has joined other prognosticators in materially improving its U.S. economic forecast. Peel off the stimulus effect and prepare to be underwhelmed2. China’s influence on the global economy, and credit markets, is multi-faceted and it continues to grow 3. KBRA Altman, a division of KBRA Analytics, has released a one-year forward, Corporate Default Forecasting Model, and our initial outcome is yet another remarkable datapoint in the COVID-19 saga