Corporate debt issuers defaulting at fastest pace since 2009 - S&P

By Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global corporate bond defaults are running at their fastest pace, year-to-date, since 2009, Standard & Poor's said in a study published on Friday. In 2014 there were 60 corporate defaults in total. "We have clearly hit a fair amount of volatility in the market right now," Diane Vazza, head of global fixed income research at Standard & Poor's in New York, told Reuters.