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00:00International companies are falling behind in debt.
00:03A new report from S&P Global shows that the process of falling behind in debt has reached its highest level since October 2020.
00:12Let's look at the details.
00:14Of course, the rate of falling behind in debt has increased more than double in April compared to March.
00:21We have reached about 18 cases of falling behind in debt in April, which is the highest monthly level since October 2020.
00:28We are talking about an increase of more than 50%, where we saw about 8 cases of falling behind in March of this year.
00:36What about cases of falling behind in the United States?
00:39We saw 10 cases of falling behind in debt worth $7 billion.
00:44As for falling behind in debt in the first four months of this year, we saw about 55 cases of falling behind in debt,
00:52which exceeds the average of 10 years by 25%.
00:57But if we want to talk about the companies or countries that led cases of falling behind in debt,
01:04it is no doubt that the United States was at the beginning of the list and issued the list,
01:09where the number of cases of falling behind in debt doubled to about 10 in April compared to March,
01:16according to what we see in the chart, and it has four in Europe.
01:19As for the emerging markets, we saw two cases,
01:22even in Europe, cases of falling behind in debt were at their highest level since 2008 when the financial crisis occurred.
01:29But what about the affected debts?
01:32The affected debts fell to half despite the increase in more than double the fall behind in debt.
01:40Why did it fall to half?
01:42We saw in April that it reached about $8.6 billion compared to $16.3 billion in March.
01:51The reason for the rise in March is that there was a fall behind in debt from the American telecommunications company Lumen Technologies,
01:58and this led to the rise in affected debts in March.
02:03What about the United States and the affected debts in the country?
02:07We saw that the affected debts in April were about $7 billion from the United States,
02:13which is about 85% of the total affected debts compared to $15 billion in March,
02:21which is 94% of the total affected debts.
02:26As for the sectors that led the affected debt processes,
02:30the technology was 41% and consumer goods 26%.
02:38In general, as we have seen, American companies led the fall behind in debt in exchange.
02:43The question remains, why do we witness fall behind in debt led by different sectors,
02:49especially when we talk about technology, media, and consumer goods?
02:54Will we witness a global debt crisis in the future?