FILE - Shoppers enter exit a Bed Bath & Beyond store Monday, May 29, 2023, in Glendale, Colo. The big-box chain is staging store closing sales at its 360 locations after filing for bankruptcy in late April 2023. An Associated Press analysis found the number of publicly-traded “zombie” companies — those so laden with debt they're struggling to pay even the interest on their loans — has soared to nearly 7,000 around the world, including 2,000 in the United States. (AP Photo/Da…
June 9, 2024
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Zombies: Ranks of world's most debt-hobbled companies are soaring, and not all will survive
They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good