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Corporate Credit Is Arriving at Scale

Corporate America is in the middle of a borrowing wave.

Investment-grade bond issuance is projected to reach $2.25 trillion in 2026, driven primarily by hyperscalers and large corporates financing AI-driven data centers, cloud infrastructure, and energy-intensive systems.

This is not speculative credit. It is high-quality, yield-competitive corporate debt and it is directly competing with U.S. Treasuries for investor capital.

As more high-grade corporate paper comes to market, Treasuries must offer higher yields to remain attractive, particularly for yield-sensitive institutional buyers.

Federal Borrowing Is Adding to the Pressure

At the same time, federal issuance remains elevated.

The Treasury has already borrowed $601 billion early in fiscal 2026, with borrowing needs expected to grow further as policymakers debate:

• Potential tariff reversals that could reduce revenue

• A proposed $500 billion increase in defense spending

• Persistent structural deficits

The result is a rare overlap: corporate issuers and the federal government drawing heavily from the same capital pool at the same time.

Why Treasury Yields Remain Stubbornly High

Despite rate cuts by the Federal Reserve last fall, Treasury yields remain near their September 2025 levels.

This persistence reflects a market reality rather than a policy failure.

If U.S. Treasuries do not remain competitive with investment-grade corporate bonds, investors reallocate. When demand softens, yields rise to compensate.

Treasuries are no longer insulated from relative-value competition.

A Structural Shift in Treasury Demand

One of the most important changes in today’s bond market is who owns U.S. debt.

Foreign governments once the backbone of Treasury demand now hold less than 15% of outstanding U.S. debt, down from over 40% historically.

That demand has been replaced by:

• Private asset managers

• Insurance companies

• Yield-driven institutional investors

This transition makes the Treasury market far more sensitive to issuance volume, timing, and rate spreads versus corporate credit. Demand is no longer price-insensitive.

THE TAKEAWAY

Rising rate volatility is becoming structural, not cyclical.

The U.S. is facing a growing squeeze between federal borrowing needs and corporate capital demand. As both expand simultaneously, Treasury yields must work harder to compete especially in a market now dominated by yield-sensitive private investors.

If Treasury yields lag, the risk of fiscal dominance increases, potentially forcing policy support for mounting deficits and amplifying interest-rate volatility.

From our seat at Impact Growth Capital, this environment reinforces a core belief: capital structure discipline matters more when rates are unstable.

That lens informs how we evaluate opportunities today including how we think about incentive-backed, defensively structured real estate investments that are less reliant on rate compression and more grounded in durable demand and engineered cash flow.

Volatility isn’t the anomaly. It’s the setting.

Jesse Sells
Founder | Impact Growth Capital

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