G-255 USD New Issue Supply Trading Model Performance Summary with 2026 Trading Indicators
G-255 January 2026 New USD G-255 Supply
· 63 issuers offered 163 separate bonds ($171 billion total capital — January record).
· Net new supply: $82 billion (third behind January 2017 and January 2024).
· Eight issuers came to market at least twice.
· 71% from financials (January record for G-255 supply).
Model Performance & Selectivity
· The G-255 systematic model generates long indicators for only ~12% of new issues (which represent ~67% of total annual USD new debt capital).
· When bonds are held until they reach their avoid-trading level, the model has historically been successful 97% of the time.
January 2026 New Issue Statistics
· 52 G-255 issuers came to market in USD during January 2025
· Total of 154 bonds issued
· 92 of those bonds have already reached their avoid-trading level according to the G-255 credit model
Broader New Issue Performance (All 2025 G-255 Issues)
· 96% of avoid-trade indicators delivered an average return of just under –8 bp over a 34-day average holding period
· Over the past 12 months, 1,054 of 1,100 G-255 USD bonds issued (totaling $1.147 trillion notional) have reached avoid signals
· All 20 December 2025 G-255 new issue trade indicators were reached in less than 22 trading days
Attached are all G-255 new supply trading indicators going forward in order to document their performance over time.
In today's report, we include the G-255 new issuer credit trade indicators for:
· the first week of January 2026 (22 trading days have passed), and
· the first week of February 2026.
First week of January 2026:
88% of the 92 bonds sold by the world's largest issuers reached their G-255 fair value trading point, while tightening by an average of -5.63 bps.
First week of February 2026:
This period includes 7 new Oracle bonds. All but one reached their G-255 trading model fair value level at pricing (February 2, 2026) and have since widened by an average of +5.2 bps from their initial trade levels.
Going forward, we will continue to track all G-255 new issue indicators that have not yet reached fair value.
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