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Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
Italian rout gathers pace as credit relationships warp well beyond historical norms
1 year ago
Renewed selling pressure on Thursday has taken credit spreads back towards the year’s wides, with financial borrowers underperforming as Chinese covid cases, US inflation and a drought in Italy all weigh on sentiment -
Algebris adds second PM in two months to credit opportunities team
1 year ago
Algebris Investments has hired a co-portfolio manager for its Global Credit Opportunities strategies -
Go long duration in consumers and industrials: BofA
1 year ago
The year’s wides still lie ahead in the second half, but China reopening is bullish for consumer and industrial spreads and investors should extend duration in high-quality credit, according to Bank of America strategists -
Credit hedge funds (July 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit tacks sharply as hiking talk brings choppy start to week
1 year ago
European financial markets opened the week on a cautious footing, after a weak Asian session, with credit indices oscillating between wider and tighter prints over the course of Monday morning -
Consumer confidence shock sends spreads back to wides
1 year ago
Weak US consumer confidence numbers on Tuesday sent shockwaves through markets that are continuing to reverberate in Wednesday's trading session -
Fed hike speculation holds sway over Europe and Asia despite US holiday
1 year ago
Credit markets have opened the week marginally tighter, with Europe and Asia cautious on Monday in the absence of a US trading session, and US Federal Reserve statements likely to drive sentiment in the rest of the week -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
1 year ago
The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared -
Market jitters mount as US delivers May CPI
1 year ago
Credit spreads have moved sharply wider for the fourth day straight as investors digested the European Central Bank’s hawkish turn and watched with trepidation for the US to reveal its May consumer price index numbers -
Credit hedge funds (June 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns
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Russia oil ban accord unites markets in sell off
1 year ago
EU leaders’ compromise agreement on banning Russian oil imports by sea has presented a united front few may have thought possible only days ago. But financial markets have not reacted positively, with risk assets selling off as the euro slumps and oil hits its highest level since March -
Fund outflows extend despite sharp improvement in credit performance
1 year ago
This has been a much better week for credit and equity market performance than last, but that has not stopped the tide of investors looking to withdraw their money from funds for such risk assets -
Europe feels Arctic chill while currency and tech woes add to fear
1 year ago
European markets have again taken a bearish turn on Thursday, with Finnish Nato aspirations, the strengthening US dollar, persistent inflation and slumping tech stocks adding to investors’ deepening dismay -
Stalling growth engines leave market in deeper turmoil
1 year ago
Financial markets are starting the week in another heavy slump, with credit hitting new wides as various asset classes take a beating from economic growth fears and the prospect of a recession in Europe -
Credit hedge funds (May 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
1 year ago
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
1 year ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
Tech and supply chain concerns take credit back to year's wides
1 year ago
A cocktail of bearish signals has taken credit markets back to their widest levels since March, with Tuesday's sell off spilling over into the Wednesday session -
Big swing for high yield property co as bears make new push
1 year ago
Credit trading has turned decidedly bearish again as the weekend approaches, with investors bracing for a host of market-impacting developments. This has brought a particularly volatile reversal in performance for one European high yield borrower -
Heavy mood greets Europe’s return as earnings and rates policy weigh
1 year ago
The European market on its return after the long weekend is greeted with another sizeable push wider in spreads, with focus on US Federal reserve policy, this week’s round of corporate earnings and the prospect of US 10-year inflation linked bond yields turning positive for the first time in two years -
Credit hedge funds (April 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
US oil drive boosts credit, but property firm goes against the flow
1 year ago
US moves to increase oil supply have prompted financial markets to resume rallying, after Russia dampened optimism on peace in Ukraine. But one European company is moving sharply in the other direction -
Credit rally extends as investors welcome hawkish but clearer Fed message
2 years ago
Credit markets have carried their rally over to another day, fuelled in part by what investors have interpreted as a hawkish but clear message from the US Federal Reserve on policy tightening -
China pledges and Russia/Ukraine peace hopes drive relief rally
2 years ago
Credit markets have surged tighter on Wednesday, with China's pledge to support covid-hit markets and hopes rising for Russia-Ukraine peace discussions ahead of US Federal Reserve policy moves that are widely thought to have been priced in
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