...Our overall stable corporate sector and rating outlooks for 2015 are supported by improving global economic growth and market sentiment. Regional disparities will nonetheless continue to drive the fortunes of corporates in 2015. A strong recovery in the US contrasts with rising challenges across emerging markets, and deflationary pressures leading to another year of anaemic growth in the eurozone. Our global corporate outlooks compendium covers key corporate sector outlooks across Asia-Pacific, the US, Latin America and EMEA and summarises the near-term expectations for each region's sectors in a single-volume compendium ¡ providing a handy desk reference for negotiating the ever-changing corporate landscape in 2015. Total new debt (bonds and syndicated loans) raised by European corporates rose 3% to a post-crisis record of EUR1.075trn in 2014. The disintermediation trend of recent years seems to be stalling, however, with bonds accounting for 39% of total new debt, down from 43% in 2013....
