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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 -
DC rejects Yandex credit event question
1 year ago
Yandex will not be weighed as a credit event, with the Credit Derivative Determinations Committee having rejected the query it received on the matter -
Yandex posed to DC as restructuring credit event
1 year ago
Yandex, the multinational internet and search engine company that serves Russian language users, has been posed to the Credit Derviative Determinations Committee as a restructuring credit event -
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 -
German property co hits new wides as investors scrutinise investigation report
1 year ago
The bearish momentum that gripped financial markets on Friday has spilled over the weekend into Monday's session, with an especially big move in the debt of one German real estate borrower taking it to worrisome spread levels -
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 -
Potential failure to pay has occurred on Russian CDS, says Determinations Committee
1 year ago
The Russian Federation is moving closer to triggering a credit event on foreign debt, with the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee having ruled a potential failure to pay has occurred -
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 -
RusRail no-auction vote means CDS holders must track down bonds
2 years ago
Russian Railways CDS contracts will not be settled via auction despite the borrower having triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled -
Credit hedge funds (April 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
US oil drive boosts credit, but property firm goes against the flow
2 years 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 -
DC accepts request to rule on Russian repudiation / moratorium
2 years ago
The Russian Federation is subject to credit event scrutiny over warnings it could repay foreign bond investors in rubles, with the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee agreeing to rule on a 'potential repudiation / moratorium' question -
China's covid response fuels regional dislocation and slowdown fear
2 years ago
Asian credit divergence has extended into a second day, with China's move to address rising covid numbers driving regional spreads as investors elsewhere await a closely watched Federal Reserve meeting -
Europe leads rally ahead of Fed despite mounting concerns from Asia
2 years ago
Credit markets have begun the week on a firmer tone, with Europe outperforming, despite concerns that rising covid-19 cases in China could add a further source of supply disruption -
Credit hedge funds (March 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Euro volatility outpaces US with pivotal hours ahead in Ukraine
2 years ago
Financial markets took another battering on Tuesday, as Russia's war with Ukraine ramped up and western countries moved to enact new sanctions -
Russia debt hits default levels amid FX and asset lock-up
2 years ago
Russia appears to be on the brink of default on its debt, with bonds and CDS pricing in the likelihood of an imminent trigger -
Ukraine crisis takes EU and Russian markets into new territory
2 years ago
Credit spreads went back to the wides again on Monday, after the European Union intensified its pressure on the Russian economy and reached an unprecedented agreement to supply Ukraine with weapons
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