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Credit Suisse blow out puts financials in spotlight
1 year ago
Credit spreads have pushed wider on Monday, with underperformance in investment grade, as sharp oil price moves accompanied intensified focus on the banking sector amid a slew of worrying commentary on Credit Suisse -
High yield gap yawns open after US index roll
2 years ago
A market rally ahead of Russia/Ukraine peace talks has added to the gap between European and US high yield credit derivative index spreads, a day after CDX HY rolled into a new on-the-run series -
Broad sell-off as market moves to price five or more Fed hikes
2 years ago
Financial market sentiment has taken another dive in the wake of the US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, with many taking Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comment that “this cycle is different from the previous one” to mean a steeper tightening than previously thought -
Single name shorters get improved entry point after conviction test
3 years ago
Returning market optimism has taken credit spreads back to ultra-tight levels. But for bears, this posits a better entry level for short trades, and the recent blow-out may have given strong pointers where to target them -
Algeco surges tighter on Q2 revenue boost
3 years ago
Algeco Global, a modular space leasing and storage company, has gapped tighter today after publishing second quarter results showing a 23.5% rise in revenue -
Janus Henderson launches 'first of its kind' senior CLO ETF
3 years ago
Janus Henderson has become the latest manager to prepare a CLO-focused fund, but the manager has taken a rather unusual approach to its fund structure: an exchange traded fund -
CLOs hold $189.3 million of J Crew as coronavirus pushes firm into bankruptcy
3 years ago
12 CLO managers hold $189.3 million debt of US retailer and household name J Crew (parent company Chino Holdings), which filed for Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday -
Barings BDC eyes syndicated loan market opportunities
4 years ago
Three weeks ago, during its 2019 earnings report, Barings BDC said the company’ had rotated out of broadly syndicated loans to ramp up its middle market exposure. But with widespread market upheaval since then, most opportunities to build value for investors will come from the broadly syndicated market -
Danish pension's credit portfolio gains 7.7% in 2019
4 years ago
Danish pension fund Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP) generated a return of DKK 2.7 billion ($401.2 million) on its credit portfolio in the first half of 2019, increasing the market value of credit investment to DKK 35 billion, according to H1 results -
Santander issues SRT referencing Spanish SME loans
4 years ago
Banco Santander has issued a significant risk transfer referencing a €3 billion portfolio of loans -
Canadian pension fund appoints head of credit
6 years ago
Toronto-headquartered Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has appointed John Graham as head of credit investments, effective 1 June 2018 -
Credit market snapshot: central bankers move credit tighter
9 years ago
Indices tighten on comments by central bankers in Europe and the US -
Credit market snapshot: credit holds still as TLTRO fails to impress
9 years ago
European credit moves sideways as central bank's lending programme gets few takers -
Texas pension fund hires manager to run high yield portfolio
9 years ago
A large pension fund, which has been a big supporter of credit strategies this year, is allocating capital to high yield bonds -
Credit market snapshot: European high yield leads market tighter
9 years ago
Credit indices tighten with European high yield and financials leading the way -
First Data’s slowing losses stoke IPO hopes
9 years ago
Atlanta-based payment processing firm losses slow as investors await IPO -
Credit market snapshot: financial spreads hit post-crisis record
10 years ago
Credit spreads moved tighter across the board yesterday, with financials making particularly strong gains -
Structured credit manager Scio closes fund and makes hire
10 years ago
European structured credit manager Scio Capital has announced that it has completed a first round of fund-raising on its Scio Partners Fund II -
Credit market snapshot: financials ignore stagnant market to tighten
10 years ago
Financial spreads refuse to take any notice of a flat wider market and continue to tighten -
Credit market snapshot: Credit continues to grind tighter
10 years ago
Credit spreads in US and Europe continue to grind tighter as cash spreads come in -
Credit market snapshot: European high yield resists drift wider
10 years ago
Credit spreads drift wider but European high yield digs in its heels and stays flat -
Credit market snapshot: Europe hits tightest level in three years
10 years ago
Credit markets tightened yesterday, as European investment grade broke below the 90 basis points mark for the first time since 2010 -
Credit market snapshot: tighter on encouraging economic data
12 years ago
Credit moves tighter yesterday; Europe edges wider this morning -
Credit market snapshot: flat as market digests latest Greek bailout
12 years ago
Credit markets largely flat over the day -
Credit market snapshot: largely flat after bumpy week
12 years ago
Credit finishes week largely flat
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