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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 -
Retailers, travel cos and Italian banks lead charge as market rally accelerates
1 year ago
Retail companies have been resurgent on Thursday as the credit market’s relief rally gathered pace, with Europe seeking to catch up with the US following its strong surge -
Talen credit event auction deliverables point to 47 cent recovery
1 year ago
Talen Energy Supply’s credit event auction looks set to have 16 bonds deliverable, including senior unsecured notes that are priced much lower than its senior secured, according to a preliminary list published by the Americas Determinations Committee -
Bespoke bond baskets on the rise as investors seek targeted portfolio trades
1 year ago
High yield index replication and accessing illiquid exposure are two factors building momentum for a new investment approach that bundles bonds into a single risk piece -
Property giant takes a tumble as European fortunes diverge
1 year ago
Adler Group, the German real estate giant, is once again coming under intense pressure in the credit market amid reports the country’s financial watchdog has begun a criminal investigation into its dealings -
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 -
Credit off to stronger start as dollar longs get squeezed
1 year ago
Financial markets are off to a better start this week, with risk assets repairing some of their recent damage as the US dollar eases back from the highs it has hit against other currencies -
Credit fund bleed out looks hard to stem, as hawks ignore macro gloom
1 year ago
Ever more investors are running to safety as risk assets tally up another rough week, with strategists warning there is no end in sight for credit fund outflows while central banks hold their course on rate hikes -
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 -
Bond / CDS basis in play as heavy market rout extends
1 year ago
The rout of financial markets has resumed at pace on Thursday, with sizeable moves that add to relative value disparities between cash and synthetic credit -
US retailers hit hard as inflation and dollar spark big sell-off
1 year ago
Inflation worries and a strengthening US dollar have once again upended the credit market’s fragile confidence, taking spreads on a violent lurch wider with the US underperforming Europe -
Sunac CDS must be physically settled, says DC
1 year ago
No credit event auction is required to settle CDS contracts referencing Sunac China Holdings, the Asia Ex-Japan Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled -
CLO managers in the mix for first US credit event auction since 2020
1 year ago
CDS contracts referencing Talen Energy Supply will be settled by credit event auction next month. And Talen's recovery levels will have relevance for a number of CLO managers that have held onto the company's debt - in some cases having bought more very recently -
European markets give up some gains after outperforming US
1 year ago
Credit and stocks have improved on Tuesday, as investors attempted a momentum shift, but Europe is already giving up some of its gains after outperforming the US for a brief spell -
Defaults should keep low despite looming recession, says TwentyFour
1 year ago
Corporate default rates should remain low even as the chance of a recession looms larger, according to a new report from TwentyFour Asset Management -
Investors hold tight amid Chinese slowdown and Nordic affront to Russia
1 year ago
Financial markets are opening the week on a cautious tone, as Chinese economic data weakens the global growth outlook and new Nato applications intensify the stand-off with Russia -
Credit retreats from wides, but worrisome test levels remain in view
1 year ago
Another rocky week for markets is ending with credit finding a firmer tone. But big questions remain unanswered about relative value and the levels some sectors could test -
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 -
Talen triggers first index-hitting credit event since Europcar
1 year ago
Talen Energy Supply has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled, making this the first default to hit US high yield index CDX HY since September 2020 and the first to hit a CDS index since January last year -
CDX HY faces first constituent default since 2020
1 year ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has accepted a request to rule on a CDX HY index constituent default - the first it has faced in the US since mid-2020 -
Convertibles specialist moves into CLO management with Apollo support
1 year ago
Convertible bonds specialist Advent Capital Management is moving into US CLO management with support from Apollo Global Management -
China builds wall of defaults as third real estate co triggers
1 year ago
Sunac China Holdings has become the third Chinese property company this year to trigger a failure-to-pay credit event -
Credit and equity retreat from extremes but oil slumps further
1 year ago
Financial markets are mounting a tentative recovery on Tuesday, having been hammered to new bearish extremes at the start of the week -
Novicap names new CEO in leadership shuffle as it sets targets for credit division
1 year ago
Novicap, a fintech company offering working capital optimisation solutions to SMEs and mid-market corporates, has shuffled its leadership structure and set a €1 billion cumulative volume target for its credit division by the end of this year -
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
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