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German real estate co hits new wides as single names catch up with index rout
2 years ago
Adler Real Estate is again one of the biggest movers in the European credit market, as the week comes to a bearish close and October begins with heightened uncertainty -
Italian spreads signal Conte confidence ahead of Senate vote
3 years ago
Italian banks are among the best performers in credit on Tuesday as hopes rise for a vote of confidence in prime minister Giuseppe Conte's government and the CDS market returns to tighter spreads -
Compression plays out as HY and European CLO double Bs outperform
3 years ago
Investment grade and high yield credit spreads have tightened in sync with each other this week, but CDS and CLOs alike underline that the big theme over the past month has been compression between investment grade and high yield -
European high yield stays positive as rest of market hits resistance point
3 years ago
Credit markets are taking a cautious step back following the recent rally, with only European high yield spreads still exploring their best prints of the week -
Fortress digests CraftWorks bankruptcy
4 years ago
CraftWorks Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday, with Fortress Investments holding all of the Tennessee restaurant operator's first lien debt - of which over half is in middle market CLOs. The New York-based firm has submitted a “stalking horse” bid to buy CraftWorks' assets -
Crossover hits widest print since September, 70bp back from the tights
4 years ago
iTraxx Crossover has surged 19bp wider today, according to IHS Markit, in a sixth successive session of coronavirus driven sell-off that takes the index to 273bp – 70bp wide of the post-crisis tight print it reached in early January -
Activists sign up to narrowly tailored event protocol
4 years ago
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association has signed up 1,298 parties, including nine reference dealers, to a protocol aimed at preventing narrowly tailored credit events (NTCEs). -
Rallye races towards over 50s club in CDS as Astaldi faces Crossover index ejection
5 years ago
Rallye, the parent company of supermarket chain Casino Guichard-Perrachon and a former fellow-constituent of credit default swap index iTraxx Crossover, has surged wider to near 50 points up front in five-year CDS trading -
M&G launches 'first of kind' multi-sector impact debt fund
6 years ago
M&G Investments has today launched a multisector positive impact private debt fund, which it claims is the first of its kind by a mainstream manager -
KKR's private credit fund fund targets Hong Kong and now South Korea
6 years ago
KKR has raised $301.1 million for its KKR Private Credit Opportunities Partners II (EEA) LP fund, which appears to be targeting Asia-based investors -
Swedish pension giant looks to expand in high yield credit
7 years ago
Swedish pension giant Första AP-Fonden (AP1) is looking to allocate up to $1.3 billion to high yield credit and has opened the search for asset managers skilled in this area -
Quicksilver bond holders face wipe-out after first big energy failure
9 years ago
Quicksilver Resources has become one of the first examples of a large energy company to fail in the wake of falling oil and gas prices -
Credit market snapshot: spreads take Greek news in their stride
9 years ago
Credit markets ended last week substantially tighter in response to the ECB's announcement of its quantitative easing programme -
Cable & Wireless credit default swaps rally on orphan bet
9 years ago
Legal loophole may mean the contracts will soon be left without a reference entity -
Calpers to scrap $4.5 billion hedge fund portfolio
9 years ago
One of the largest pension funds in the world, California Public Employees' Retirement System, has announced plans to scrap its $4.5 billion hedge fund programme. -
Calpers signs up leading managers for $750 million credit allocation
9 years ago
The California Public Employees' Retirement System has hired to two established names in credit to manage $750 million -
Credit market snapshot: oil worries holds credit flat
9 years ago
Credit indices barely changed as oil worries prevent risk taking -
Credit market snapshot: Credit marches tighter on rate cut
9 years ago
European credit spreads hit new lows following European Central Bank action -
Portel surges tighter on Brazilian merger news
10 years ago
Spreads on Portugal Telecom jump tighter on announcement of merger with Brazilian telecoms firm -
Credit market snapshot: spreads widen on political fears
10 years ago
Credit spreads widen as political threats resurface in US and Europe, while US high yield rolls in to wider index -
Credit market snapshot: credit widens on Spanish banking audits
11 years ago
Credit moves wider this morning after mixed day yesterday -
Credit market snapshot: widening again
12 years ago
Credit drifted wider yesterday in skitting trading, reversing the tightening direction seen earlier in the week -
Long-short redemptions hit credit manager
14 years ago
London-based credit specialist BlueBay Asset Management said today that its long-short assets under management fell by 52% in the year ending June 2009 to $2.8 billion as a result of $1.5 billion of net redemptions and a $1.5 billion fall in value -
Deutsche weathers credit market dislocation to post strong Q4 figures
16 years ago
Despite returning significantly lower revenues in some credit trading and RMBS areas, overall corporate and investment banking revenues were essentially unchanged from the same period last year -
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19 years ago
Week beginning 13 December
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