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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 -
Chicken supplier takes courage from earnings improvement
2 years ago
Boparan, one of the riskiest companies in the European high yield credit market, is among the biggest movers in bonds and CDS on Wednesday, as the market resumes its rally to the tightest prints of the year -
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 -
High yield chemical co gaps tighter on bond buy-back
2 years ago
Chemical producer K+S Group is a big improver in credit on Thursday even as the rest of the market moves wider, after it announced a tender offer for bonds -
Axa IM extends palm oil policy to cover ecosystem protection and deforestation
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers says it is expanding its 2014 policy of excluding investments in companies which do not have sustainable palm oil production certificates by factoring in deforestation and ecosystem protection -
Ex-NatWest Markets CLO structuring head lands on buy side
2 years ago
A European credit manager has hired Luca Giancola for the "repositioning of its private structured credit business" -
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 -
Shipping firm adds buoyancy amid few signs of choppiness in credit
2 years ago
CMA CGM, the French container shipping company, is a big mover today amid very calm waters elsewhere in credit. -
BlueBay hires Germany/Austria institutional sales official in new role
2 years ago
BlueBay Asset Management has tapped a former bfinance official as head of institutional sales Germany and Austria, a newly created job -
Novicap tech platform targets credit investors with fundraising drive
2 years ago
Novicap, a fintech company offering working capital optimisation solutions to SMEs and mid-market corporates, is looking to debt capital markets participants such as credit and structured credit funds, asset managers, pension companies and insurers as it seeks to raise third-party funding for its credit platform -
"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 -
Past returns: Having a whale of a time in tranches
2 years ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on JP Morgan’s “little known prop book” making waves in index tranches -
Equity tranche longs fall out of favour as spreads tighten and dispersion picks up after uniform moves
2 years ago
Dispersion is picking up after relatively uniform moves in credit in the early part of 2021. CDS index equity tranches had outperformed for much of this year but spreads have gapped out a touch in the past few weeks -
Fund performance: CLO funds outperform as two hit over 100% 12-months return
2 years ago
CLO funds swatted away the competition in April on their way to dominating our top 10 credit hedge fund return table after an upbeat month -
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 -
Meag hires experienced credit specialist for top fixed income job
2 years ago
€328 billion asset manager Meag has appointed a head of active fixed income in Munich to oversee a range of assets including credit -
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 -
French equipment rental firm gets big lift on Q1 results
2 years ago
Loxam, one of the widest trading names in the iTraxx Crossover universe, is leading index constituent tighteners on Wednesday after posting first quarter results showing improvement in revenue and ebidta -
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 -
CLOs' favourite telco jumps tighter following strong results
2 years ago
French telco Altice is in focus on Friday as credit puts thoughts of a broader directional trade on hold -
Climate change pair trade delivers as oil companies' CDS widens
2 years ago
A climate change pair trade proposed by Anthropocene in March has come good with Norwegian oil company Equinor’s CDS outperforming Total, a French oil company -
Commodity inflation sends Asia spreads back to wides
2 years ago
Asian credit and stocks added to a rough few days with further sell offs on Thursday, outpacing deterioration in other regions -
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
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