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Last month we shared a list of the top 10 BDC non-accruals based on first quarter 2018 SEC filings. Now that we are mid-way through August and second quarter filings are readily available, let’s take a fresh look at the first quarter’s worst performer.

Repricings return, aiming for lower margins at BJ's (ACSF, Hancock Park, CCT), Compass Power (FS Energy) and Travel Leaders (Bain, Triton Pacific)

The first week of the new month was dominated by reactive trading and repositioning in the wake of quarterly reports, even as the new-issue market kept rolling out loans and bonds. In bonds, highlights included $1.25 billion short-term-fix from Intelsat just as the identically sized BMC Software buyout bonds got going on international roadshows for next week’s business following June’s completed loan financing.

After a somewhat sleepy start last week, loan arrangers piled it on. M&A deals peeled off the calendar late in the week included the long-awaited deal for Penn National Gaming, Cetera, Travel Leaders and Del Frisco Restaurant Group as gross launched volume jumped to $15.6 billion in the busiest week since June 15. M&A volume was a healthy $7.9 billion.

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The Week Of Nothing Much

We’ve been writing these Market Recaps for more weeks than a shark has teeth and we’re hard pressed to remember 5 consecutive days as uneventful as these have been.

As the BDC Reporter has been saying in the preamble of our articles of late, there is very little new to report.

We counted just 4 stories on our Daily News Table and one Stock Watch alert  (as OFS hit a new 52 Week Low) during the week. The week before ? 18 different items.

The same applies to BDC common stock prices, which barely shifted over this, admittedly brief, period between January 19 and 26.