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Short View: Credit market
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:35:48 +0000
Truly low-grade credit looks more expensive than normally, while higher-grade credit is a relative bargain, but the point is that playing the credit market is once more a painstaking job of predicting defaults
Turkey's IMF financing talks end
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:44:00 +0000
Turkey's two-year saga of on-off negotiations with the International Monetary Fund ended as prime minister says country can "stand on its own feet"
CFTC urges end to derivatives secrecy
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:05:04 +0000
A leading US financial regulator called for the prices of derivatives trades to be disclosed in the same way as stock prices, saying only large Wall Street banks benefited from the current lack of transparency
Beijing still keen to buy US bonds
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:30:14 +0000
China's investments in US Treasury bonds are continuing 'every day' and should not be politicised, according to the head of China's foreign exchange administration, which manages $2,400bn in forex reserves
Spotlight on use of government bond yields
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:23:23 +0000
Questions being asked about the use of developed countries' government bond yields as the risk-free rate investors benchmark other assets against
Bond investors seek new home for cash
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:16:31 +0000
As the government-guaranteed bonds sold during the financial crisis start to mature and get repaid, investors are wondering where to reinvest
Mortgage bond spreads at record low
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:04:35 +0000
The risk premium on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage bonds has dropped to a record low even though the Fed is poised to end its market support for these bonds
Sovereign risk: are the dangers fading?
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:51:15 +0000
Jan Randolph, head of sovereign risk analysis at IHS Global Insight answers your queries and concerns about the impact of sovereign risk on financial markets on Monday, March 15
Wide trade gap hits recovery hopes
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:01:16 +0000
The UK's trade deficit with the rest of the world reached its widest since August 2008 in January as exports dropped sharply, hitting hopes that the weak pound can deliver an export-driven recovery
CME faces serious threat to its ascendancy
Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:49:12 +0000
Market-based and legal assaults to the group may change the terrain of the futures industry
Regulator ponders CDS clampdown
Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:01:52 +0000
Market for sovereign credit default swaps in spotlight after politicians blamed it for exacerbating Greek debt crisis
European CLO study pinpoints default hotspots
Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:55:18 +0000
Smaller managers of European structured loan pools have underperformed their bigger rivals
Shorting US Treasuries could be a mistake
Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:12:53 +0000
There are reasons to expect the Treasury market to hold its own, and perhaps even surprise with lower yields, writes Dino Kos
Rabobank hybrid bonds offer new funding template
Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:45:33 +0000
The new form of contingent capital bond could provide a template for other banks seeking to raise fresh funds from markets
The end of gilts' 30-year high is nigh
Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:50:11 +0000
The returns of the last 30 years from government bonds cannot and will not be repeated over the next 30, writes Jonathan Davis
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