After a stressful year and difficulties in raising capital, borrowers are attracting a lot of investor interest.

In the first 18 days of the year, businesses and governments around the world have already issued almost €600 billion of bonds. That’s the most active start to a year in bond markets in history, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

After a downward spiral last year not only for equities but also for debt securities, businesses and governments faced worsening borrowing conditions, but at the start of this year issuers are seeing a sudden surge in enthusiasm from investors willing to lend.

The latter is driven by yields on debt markets not seen for 15 years and by investors’ expectations of a slowdown in inflation and, consequently, of central banks cutting interest rates, possibly as early as the end of this year. This is pushing investors to lock in elevated yields.

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