Liam Denning, Columnist

Beware Energy's Junk Debt Army

Diversification is not always a good thing.

December 14, 2015 at 3:41 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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