Blue Owl prices first private credit CLO of the year
Blue Owl yesterday pulled the trigger on its CLO primary market activity in 2024, pricing the first private credit deal of the year, and its own 25th private credit CLO since inception

It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter