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Four days left to join narrowly tailored credit event protocol
4 years ago
Those market participants yet to sign up to the International Swaps & Derivatives Association’s protocol on narrowly tailored credit events have until Friday to do so -
Credit traders’ kickstand: primary market flood gives basis for relative value
4 years ago
A deluge of investment grade bond supply in the first two weeks of the year has weighed on the spread basis between the cash market and CDS, leaving opportunities for traders who believe this dislocation should correct over the coming weeks -
Renault hits bump in flat markets
4 years ago
The future of Nissan’s relationship with Renault has been in question since last year. But the likelihood of the companies parting ways has increased since Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, who faced charges of financial crimes, fled from Japan to Lebanon in December -
Credit traders' kickstand: convergence trades rewarded as financials outperform
4 years ago
Compression is the watchword in credit at the start of the year, with the market’s navigation of post-crisis tight prints bringing an outperformance of financial names over corporate borrowers and US over European indices -
Tabula launches ETF of iTraxx Europe bond issuers
4 years ago
Tabula Investment Management, a European fixed income exchange traded fund provider, has launched a product that aims to enable liquid hedging by tracking bonds of companies comprising the iTraxx Europe investment grade CDS index -
This is not just wider: M&S stands apart as CDS picks new tights
4 years ago
As credit spreads head back into post-crisis record tight territory amid a softening of tone between the US and Iran, retailer Marks & Spencer is bucking the rally having issued a profit warning today -
Oil supply concerns grease CDS relative value trade
4 years ago
With credit spreads having begun 2020 circling post-crisis tight prints, there is not much room across the market for improvement and plenty of susceptibility to jitters. But at least one CDS index shows scope to narrow further and could form part of a relative value trade -
Rude awakening for credit as US airstrike sends global shockwaves
4 years ago
It only took a day for the positive mood greeting financial markets in 2020 to turn nervous, with credit and equities faltering in early trading today after the US killed a top Iranian military official -
Credit traders enter 2020 a world away from 2019's opening blues
4 years ago
CDS markets are showing what a difference a year makes, with indices beginning 2020 at post-crisis record or near record tights. And concerns such as Brexit or US-China (and lately UK-China) tensions are doing little to dampen the mood in today's buoyant trading session -
Complacency rules after rally in run-up to UK election
4 years ago
UK credits rallying was a familiar sight for much of November, mainly due to investors cutting their previous short positions ahead of the country’s 12 December election, but dealers reported little appetite to replace long, short or hedging trades going into the final stretch. -
Deep dive trade is on, but single name risks still abound
4 years ago
High yield CDS is reversing its previous underperformance versus investment grade, reflecting an investor shift down the quality spectrum in cash bonds. -
Deans Foods auction delivers big lunch for CDS protection buyers
4 years ago
Dean Foods CDS has been settled in a credit event auction at a final price of just 9.25 cents – half the 18 cents indicated by the Dallas-headquartered company’s bonds at the time the auction was called -
No 2020 recession, cyclical bonds will outperform and CLOs won't crash, says BNP Paribas
4 years ago
There will not be a recession in 2020 and investors should stay long credit with the expectation that high yield cyclical and non-financial borrowers will outperform in a bullish market, BNP Paribas strategists have confidently predicted -
Dean Foods CDS to have one deliverable, with 80 cent pay-out indicated
4 years ago
There will be only one bond deliverable into an auction to settle CDS referencing Dean Foods, the Americas Determinations Committee has confirmed -
Dean Foods CDS set to have only one deliverable on the menu
4 years ago
Only one bond has made it onto the supplemental list of deliverable obligations for an auction to settle CDS referencing Dean Foods -
Non-dealers overtake banks as biggest holders of diminishing CDS pie
4 years ago
The share of the CDS market held by non-dealer financial institutions has surpassed that of dealers for the first time, according to latest Bank for International Settlements data. But firms are scrapping over a smaller pie, as outstanding single name CDS continues to fall -
Creditors left with sour taste as two food companies file for bankruptcy
4 years ago
Credit investors have been left to digest two US food company bankruptcy filings this week, with dairy producer Dean Foods triggering the first credit event to hit on-the-run series 33 of the CDX HY index, while Houlihan's Restaurants has also sought protection -
Deadline just hours away for CDS users to sign Isda protocol
4 years ago
Midday New York time is the cut-off for market participants to sign up to the International Swaps & Derivatives Association’s protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events from CDS -
Corporate credit performance expected to catch up with financial borrowers as European quantitative easing begins
4 years ago
The return of European Central Bank quantitative easing on 30 October portends a catch up this month of corporate credit performance with other parts of the market, such as financial borrowers, say strategists. -
FisherBroyles hires derivatives and regulations specialist as partner
4 years ago
FisherBroyles, an Atlanta headquartered law firm, has hired derivatives and securities specialist Julian Hammar as a partner in its New York and Washington, DC offices -
Credit traders' kickstand: QE and dispersion sever 'haves' from 'have nots'
4 years ago
The underperformance of European high yield credit has picked up this week, on rising concerns about dispersion in funding access -
Thomas Cook CDS settles with higher than expected recovery
4 years ago
CDS referencing Thomas Cook Group settled with a final price of 10.125 cents at yesterday's credit event auction, making the high pay-outs to protection buyers still less profitable for them than had been expected -
Thomas Cook CDS auction sets initial midpoint at nine cents
4 years ago
An auction to settle CDS referencing Thomas Cook Group has derived an initial market midpoint of 9.125 cents, implying protection buyers will receive a pay-out on contracts in the region of 89 cents -
CDS traders get second extension on narrowly tailored credit event protocol
4 years ago
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association has extended for a second time the deadline for market participants to adhere to a protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events from the CDS market -
Traders face Monday deadline for manufactured credit event protocol
4 years ago
Interested parties have until Monday to sign up to a protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events from the CDS market, with the International Swaps & Derivatives Association having given extensions on the original deadline
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