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Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
Five credit managers win nearly $1 billion from UK pension pool
1 year ago
Five private credit funds emerged as winners after UK pension pool Border to Coast revealed $1 billion in a wide variety of private credit commitments -
Italian rout gathers pace as credit relationships warp well beyond historical norms
1 year ago
Renewed selling pressure on Thursday has taken credit spreads back towards the year’s wides, with financial borrowers underperforming as Chinese covid cases, US inflation and a drought in Italy all weigh on sentiment -
Standard Chartered prints landmark SRT in Asia
1 year ago
Standard Chartered has issued a ground-breaking SRT by partnering with investors PGGM and Alecta. The transaction "enables Standard Chartered to be the first bank to benefit from capital relief in Hong Kong" -
Mixed signals abound but European weakness persists
1 year ago
European financial markets are losing further ground against the US in a cautious start to the week, as the euro approaches parity with the dollar for the first time and latest data supports the Federal Reserve maintaining a hawkish approach to policy -
Go long duration in consumers and industrials: BofA
1 year ago
The year’s wides still lie ahead in the second half, but China reopening is bullish for consumer and industrial spreads and investors should extend duration in high-quality credit, according to Bank of America strategists -
Europe vs US arb hits resistance as dislocation becomes more extreme
1 year ago
Recession fears have pushed several different asset classes to key psychological levels, while leaving European and US credit markets at a high level of dislocation -
LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
1 year ago
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus... -
Credit tacks sharply as hiking talk brings choppy start to week
1 year ago
European financial markets opened the week on a cautious footing, after a weak Asian session, with credit indices oscillating between wider and tighter prints over the course of Monday morning -
Shimao credit event auction not needed, rules DC
1 year ago
Holders of CDS protection on Shimao Group Holdings will have to physically settle contracts -
EU inflation prints frame challenge ahead as horror show first half ends
1 year ago
Financial markets are heading into the weekend with a rare stationary session, but the mood is more one of shellshock than considered positioning, after one of the worst first halves to a year on record -
Energy co joins Europe's choir of fallen angel candidates as spreads soar
1 year ago
The financial market sell-off is entering acceleration, with credit indices blowing to new psychological levels and a growing number of investment grade companies reaching high yield spreads -
Consumer confidence shock sends spreads back to wides
1 year ago
Weak US consumer confidence numbers on Tuesday sent shockwaves through markets that are continuing to reverberate in Wednesday's trading session -
Chinese property industry suffers fourth credit event of year
1 year ago
Shimao Group Holdings has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, making it the fourth Chinese property firm this year to do so -
Property firm's troubles mount while rest of market rallies
1 year ago
Financial markets have opened the week brightly on a mix of improved sentiment and technical repositioning. But one European high yield company is heading further into stress, against the flow -
Skew opens up as indices pivot following broad sell off
1 year ago
The opening of the US session on Thursday has brought a firmer tone, after European and Asian markets extended their weak run. But the reversal in index direction has left single name credits still sitting at much wider spreads -
Fourth Chinese real estate firm posed as credit event
1 year ago
Shimao Group Holdings is the subject of a failure-to-pay credit event question, making it the fourth Chinese property firm this year to be referred to the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee -
Energy firms underperform in credit sell off as oil prices slump
1 year ago
Investment grade credit is the underperformer on Wednesday as the market pivots wider amid negative economic signals and ahead of US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s appearance before Congress -
Credit rally gathers momentum as Fed pitches for credibility
1 year ago
European credit’s relief rally has extended on Tuesday, with US stock futures pointing in a positive direction on return from the country’s holiday and the US dollar slipping a touch against the euro -
Fed hike speculation holds sway over Europe and Asia despite US holiday
1 year ago
Credit markets have opened the week marginally tighter, with Europe and Asia cautious on Monday in the absence of a US trading session, and US Federal Reserve statements likely to drive sentiment in the rest of the week -
Internet company triggers restructuring credit event at third time of asking
1 year ago
Yandex, the multinational internet and search engine company that predominantly serves Russian and Russian language users, has triggered a restructuring credit event -
Europe trades heavier than US as market baulks at new hikes
1 year ago
Credit spreads have resumed their push wider, with European indices once again under more pressure than their US counterparts -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
1 year ago
The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared -
Market jitters mount as US delivers May CPI
1 year ago
Credit spreads have moved sharply wider for the fourth day straight as investors digested the European Central Bank’s hawkish turn and watched with trepidation for the US to reveal its May consumer price index numbers -
Russian credit event auction plans put on hold after US sanctions update
1 year ago
Settlement of Russian Federation sovereign CDS has hit a delay, with the US having published updated advice on sanctions that could jeopardise the ability to conduct a credit event auction
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