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China crackdown and Fed meeting rattle nerves
2 years ago
Credit spreads widened as financial markets began the week on a less certain footing amid panic stock selling in China and a retreat to treasuries ahead of the US Federal Reserve two-day monetary policy meeting -
Squarepoint draws big name options market maker to buy side
2 years ago
An experienced credit options trader has decided to join the systematic and quant strategies manager in a change of career from working on the sell side -
Ashurst hires senior structured credit and derivatives lawyer
2 years ago
Law firm Ashurst has added a partner to its global markets practice in New York -
Credit spreads gap wider as growth fears rock market
2 years ago
Credit indices have gapped wider and stocks slumped, with government bonds making gains, amid rising concern about future economic growth prospects and the impact of central bank policy -
"Pain is on the way: spreads are too tight, while compression and carry are done. But what if it's not?"
2 years ago
Welshcake reminds us that mid-cycle portfolio management is a funny old game -
Credit index tranche trading on the rise amid low dispersion
2 years ago
At its halfway point, 2021 is shaping up as another big year for credit index tranche trading, with new investors having entered the market and dealers projecting full-year volume could vie with 2020’s record of recent times. -
CLO demand drives loan outperformance versus bonds
2 years ago
Leveraged loans could be set for their strongest run of outperformance over high yield bonds since 2017, say investors and strategists — if the CLO engine and an influx of money to funds continues to drive flows -
Credit grind pushes back volatility bets
2 years ago
With recent weeks having all-but crushed volatility from the market, uncertainty about the timing of future risk triggers is leading credit options traders to spurn traditional horizons to focus on longer-dated expiries -
Credit slumbers in departure lounge as airline equities take off
2 years ago
Credit and equity markets have been in a balancing act on Tuesday between the positive and negative implications of surging oil prices and Germany opting to relax travel restrictions -
French food producer gets cold shoulder following bond issue
2 years ago
Picard, the French frozen foods producer, is one of the biggest movers in the European high yield market on Monday, after investors showed little warmth for its new bond issue in the secondary market -
All eyes on NFP as credit seeks exit from 'no man's land'
2 years ago
Credit markets look to be ending wider on the week but, with focus mainly on today's US non-farm payroll numbers, the lack of movement in early trading could give way to a stronger directional play ahead of the long US weekend -
Tranche trader leaves Apollo for sell side
2 years ago
BNP Paribas has filled a gap in its structured credit trading group with the hire of an index tranche market maker -
Real estate firm blows wider but BoE allays broader market concerns
2 years ago
Adler Real Estate traded sharply against trend as high yield credit spreads hit new post-pandemic tightest levels on Thursday -
Triple Bs in the firing line as Fed turns hawkish, says BofA
2 years ago
Triple B and long duration credit are likely to be casualties of tightening central bank policy, Bank of America strategists have warned. But high yield and cyclical investment grade sectors could fare better -
Credit indices hit impasse after US high yield returns to pre-covid tights
2 years ago
Credit improvement looks to be taking a breather on Thursday after the compression play in CDS indices took US high yield index CDX HY to its tightest prints since February 2020, before the outbreak of covid-19 began to blow out spreads -
"In the afternoon I awoke from a pile of willow leaves to discover we had created a Welsh ether-based token"
2 years ago
A localised crypto-currency boom and bust cycle teaches Welshcake (again) that everything becomes correlated in a downturn -
Focus shifts to macro views amid blurry relative value picture
2 years ago
Relative value trading has become a difficult place to operate in credit, with previously effective strategies such as compression, pairs and basis hard to discern and opportunities difficult to source, according to portfolio managers. -
Single Bs bomb as beta narrative shifts
2 years ago
Few signalled themes in credit have died away as quickly as that of the outperformance of single B rated credit, which several firms proposed at the start of May but soon found crushed by a cocktail of worries around inflation, central bank policy, supply and high yield fund outflows -
Credit bull run picks up amid commodities surge
2 years ago
European credit spreads have made a sharp turn for the tighter, building on last week's strong run, even after Asian spreads weakened on rising commodity costs -
Credit grind makes it five days out of five in bullish week
2 years ago
Credit markets are heading into the weekend on a fifth straight day of improving spreads, amid signs of returning economic confidence and appetite to invest in the asset class -
Financials and high yield outperform as rally gathers momentum
2 years ago
Credit spreads are enjoying a second day of improvement to regain some of the ground they lost last week, with Italian banks, commodity traders and higher yielding borrowers among outperformers in a broad rally of both indices and single name borrowers -
Sell-off regathers momentum as inflation signals mount
2 years ago
A glum mood has returned to financial markets, beginning with the US session on Tuesday and overspilling into global trading on Wednesday -
Financials and high yield corps retrace tighter after inflation shake out
2 years ago
Credit markets firmed up on Tuesday, with European single name CDS finding a chance to recover some ground after Monday's inflation-led weakness. But credit indices underperformed, struggling to return tighter even as stock indices advanced once again and oil prices hit new highs -
Credit underperformance resumes as equity turns corner
2 years ago
Credit markets are pushing wider once again on Wednesday, even though stock markets look to regaining some composure following Tuesday's steep sell off -
Credit and stocks regain composure on rates as oil hits new heights
2 years ago
Credit and equity markets have improved again on Wednesday morning, after US treasury secretary Janet Yellen's comments about possible rate rises spooked markets on Tuesday afternoon
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