Societe Generale suggests trading steel against steel in CDS

Societe Generale suggests playing two of the biggest steel manufacturers against each other

TAGS: CDS Research

Comment by: Anonymous. Posted 10 years ago [2013-10-23 00:25:15]

Question: the CDS trades for this sensible-looking strategy must now go through central clearing, right? As a practical consideration, how much friction does this add? There's really no netting of collateral posted to recognize the offsetting industry risk of the long and short positions.