Blackrock is about to find skeletons in Sweden's EUR 41 billion bond market

As Blackrock starts to kick the tires of Sweden’s credit market at the behest of the Riksbank, a world of trouble is about to reveal itself.
Photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix/Reuters / X90066
Photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix/Reuters / X90066
By Love Liman, Anton Wilen and Leo Laikola / BLOOMBERG

“This market seems completely dead,” said Hakan Karlsson, chief executive of MaxFastigheter i Sverige AB, a property firm with an unrated bond maturing in September. “If we want to retain the possibility of raising money through bonds, some kind of support is needed for it to function.”

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