Over the course of the last several months we’ve taken every opportunity to point out the fact that undergirding the strength in equities is a wave of corporate buybacks. At nearly $350 billion, IG issuance recently hit a record for Q1 and HY supply hasn’t been too shabby either at $93 billion during the period. The supply deluge has of course been fueled by investors’ voracious appetite for anything that offers any semblance of yield in the face of a credit landscape where risk-free debt slides further into NIRP-dom with each passing month.