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May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
10 months ago
Leveraged investors continue to favor bonds to loans, according to the Debtwire May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. -
UK credit spreads rally for Rishi
1 year ago
UK credit spreads have rallied sharply on Monday with the victory of Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country’s third prime minister of the year -
Big push wider for credit index spreads as traders navigate challenging roll
1 year ago
The roll of CDX and iTraxx credit indices is proceeding, with traders scrambling to respond to a big shift in relative dynamics between the US and Europe following London's long weekend -
Credit fights for purchase amid swirl of darkening storm
1 year ago
Investors are attempting to peer out of the gloom after a heavy sell off, but meancing clouds gather over Europe especially in the form of weak manufacturing numbers, a sub-dollar euro, spiralling gas costs, and the threat of lower Gulf oil production -
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 -
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 -
Fed fears extend big market slump
1 year ago
Credit spreads have pushed sharply wider again at the start of the week with all eyes on the upcoming US Federal Reserve meeting, as investor aversion to risk assets extends following Friday’s consumer price index number that caused financial markets to reel -
Russia oil ban accord unites markets in sell off
1 year ago
EU leaders’ compromise agreement on banning Russian oil imports by sea has presented a united front few may have thought possible only days ago. But financial markets have not reacted positively, with risk assets selling off as the euro slumps and oil hits its highest level since March -
US / European high yield compression trades win as Fed unveils new hiking regime
2 years ago
The remarkable recent outperformance of US credit derivatives index CDX HY has reached a key juncture, with reaction to the Federal Reserve's announcements causing it to trade inside European counterpart iTraxx Crossover -
Single name shorters get improved entry point after conviction test
3 years ago
Returning market optimism has taken credit spreads back to ultra-tight levels. But for bears, this posits a better entry level for short trades, and the recent blow-out may have given strong pointers where to target them -
LP round up: Connecticut eyes Fortress for private credit partnership
3 years ago
Investors placed $3.3 billion across 26 credit mandates over the past fortnight, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
Churchill collects $2 billion for second unlevered US direct lending fund
4 years ago
Churchill Asset Management has held a $2 billion final close on its second US direct lending fund, doubling its original $1 billion target size -
First Eagle closes fourth direct lending fund at $782 million
4 years ago
First Eagle Investment Management has collected $782 million on its fourth direct lending fund, THL Credit Direct Lending Fund IV, marking the first private credit fund closed since Boston-based THL Credit was acquired by First Eagle in December -
Bifurcation in loan market will continue in 2020, says MUFG
4 years ago
Bifurcation in the leveraged loan market, a trend that dominated the market in 2019, looks set to continue in 2020, according to MUFG’s co-head of debt capital markets Jeffrey Knowles -
US loan trading: Sinclair loans dominate the airwaves as CLOs tune in
4 years ago
Sinclair Broadcasting Group and Diamond Sports – both subsidiaries of issuer Sinclair - worked their way into CLO portfolios in July, with 91 managers purchasing $1.42 billion of the loans in July -
Credit drives strong returns for five of the largest asset managers in the business
5 years ago
Carlyle is close to hitting its ambitious fundraising target; direct lending has been kind to Ares; and Och-Ziff has decided to shed its US CLO risk retention stakes after exiting its financing agreements -
Former head of Milken family office raises $118 million for credit fund
6 years ago
A firm run by the former head of Michael Milken’s family office has raised $118.3 million for an opportunistic credit fund -
Bain Capital raises $557 million for Asia credit fund
6 years ago
Bain Capital has held the first close of its Asia credit fund, known as Bain Capital Special Situations Asia – and has already raised $557 million for the fund -
Former Anchorage pair seek investment in two new Diameter funds
6 years ago
Credit start-up Diameter Capital Partners, founded in February by two credit professionals from Anchorage, has opened two new funds to investment -
Experienced fixed income specialist resurfaces at Henderson
9 years ago
Fixed income sales specialist joins asset manager in London for credit product specialist role -
Credit market snapshot: European credit pushes wider
9 years ago
European crossover pushes credit wider as US holds steady -
Credit market snapshot: US spreads head out as Europe tightens
9 years ago
European credit spreads tighten as US spreads push wider -
Credit market snapshot: spreads widen as ECB puts action on hold
9 years ago
Credit spreads move wider as European markets accept quantitative easing may be a way off -
Credit market snapshot: US credit tightens on GDP revisions
9 years ago
US credit indices tightened after shock downwards revision to first quarter figures -
Credit market snapshot: oil worries holds credit flat
9 years ago
Credit indices barely changed as oil worries prevent risk taking
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