It is tempting to interpret the recent increase in the average spread of US corporate bonds over Treasuries as a sign that the economic recovery is faltering. However, the increase appears to have been at least partly due to the decline in the price of oil in the past couple of months, which has hit borrowers in the energy sector hard and which we do not expect to last.
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