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Credit grind pushes back volatility bets
4 years ago
With recent weeks having all-but crushed volatility from the market, uncertainty about the timing of future risk triggers is leading credit options traders to spurn traditional horizons to focus on longer-dated expiries -
Credit slumbers in departure lounge as airline equities take off
4 years ago
Credit and equity markets have been in a balancing act on Tuesday between the positive and negative implications of surging oil prices and Germany opting to relax travel restrictions -
Chicken supplier takes courage from earnings improvement
4 years ago
Boparan, one of the riskiest companies in the European high yield credit market, is among the biggest movers in bonds and CDS on Wednesday, as the market resumes its rally to the tightest prints of the year -
Triple Bs in the firing line as Fed turns hawkish, says BofA
4 years ago
Triple B and long duration credit are likely to be casualties of tightening central bank policy, Bank of America strategists have warned. But high yield and cyclical investment grade sectors could fare better -
Past returns: Having a whale of a time in tranches
4 years ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on JP Morgan’s “little known prop book” making waves in index tranches -
Credit grind makes it five days out of five in bullish week
4 years ago
Credit markets are heading into the weekend on a fifth straight day of improving spreads, amid signs of returning economic confidence and appetite to invest in the asset class -
French equipment rental firm gets big lift on Q1 results
4 years ago
Loxam, one of the widest trading names in the iTraxx Crossover universe, is leading index constituent tighteners on Wednesday after posting first quarter results showing improvement in revenue and ebidta -
Financials and high yield outperform as rally gathers momentum
4 years ago
Credit spreads are enjoying a second day of improvement to regain some of the ground they lost last week, with Italian banks, commodity traders and higher yielding borrowers among outperformers in a broad rally of both indices and single name borrowers -
Saipem moves sharply on Mozambique moans
4 years ago
Saipem, the Italian energy engineering group, was a big underperformer in a flattish credit market on Wednesday, as uncertainty over a project in Mozambique weighed on first quarter results and its outlook for the year -
French foodco CDS jumps on bond offering
4 years ago
Picard, the French frozen foods company, is a big underperformer in credit markets on Monday, as it limbered up to bring a triple-tranche bond deal -
Travel company CDS soars wider as bond issue converts to concern
4 years ago
TUI, the Anglo-German travel operator, is under pressure in credit and equity markets just it has launched an offering of convertible bonds -
Single names make big gains as indices dither
4 years ago
Single name CDS in the US and Europe have strongly outperformed from the start of the week, rallying sharply and across most of the credit universe despite direcctionless trading for indices -
Corp hybrid popularity mounts, but strategist outlooks diverge
4 years ago
Corporate hybrid bonds are becoming a focal point for investors in the second quarter, with one bank's credit strategy team making them a top pick to trade spread compression while another's has expressed caution on their likely performance -
Spreads rally sharply ahead of US high yield index roll
4 years ago
Credit markets are rallying into the weekend, pushing US high yield index CDX HY inside a key trading level ahead of its roll to a new series on Monday -
TRS goes electronic on Tradeweb with iBoxx trade
4 years ago
Tradeweb Markets has completed what it says is the first ever fully standardised total return swap trade based on IHS Markit’s iBoxx US Dollar Liquid High Grade index -
European CLOs rise in secondary with Sound Point deal up 4.25 cents from issuance
4 years ago
Double-B rated CLO tranches received bids in the high 90s on Wednesday with Sound Point Capital Management’s debut European CLO attracting the highest cover of 98.25 cents on the euro. But the CLO rally is lagging moves in corporate credit -
European CLO double Bs jump wider amid October macro worries - but seniors stand firm
4 years ago
The fortunes of investment grade and high yielding European CLO tranches have gone in opposite directions in the last month. In a year where relative value has shifted several times, Creditflux analysis shows that new issue European CLO double Bs have blown out by 16.5% in October versus September, while triple A-rated notes have tightened 6.7% in that time -
US and Europe diverge as loan trading bands emerge on the continent
5 years ago
Europe and the US are on different courses with credit indices having drifted apart over the past month, say trading sources. Europe is expected to suffer fewer defaults to the extent that "it’s getting quite difficult for borrowers to default”, as one source put it. But the US has "higher growth potential due to its more dynamic economy" -
‘Hoard credit’ says PM as markets swing
5 years ago
As Creditflux went to press, the covid-19 death toll in Italy surged by 700 after two days of slowing, and the US congress agreed a $2 trillion stimulus package. -
CDS show the way as prices move and volumes surge
5 years ago
CDS volumes provide an eye-opening view of how the asset class has grown in prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, with index trading near doubling year-to-date on 2019, even as secondary bond markets hit lockdown. -
Silver lining: credit investors provided with lower entry points than Q4 2018
5 years ago
Oil shocks and the coronavirus outbreak, along with aftermath effects such as US Federal Reserve interventions and lockdowns, is providing credit investors with lower entry points than the Q4 2018 sell-off, say sources. Furthermore, an expected U-shaped rather than V-shaped recovery could provide a greater money multiple for opportunistic investments - if they can access them -
Tranche traders aim to navigate default risk while staying clear of coronavirus contagion
5 years ago
The CDS market is navigating between two sources of risk for equity and mezzanine high yield index tranches. The default of US media company McClatchy has focused idiosyncratic concerns, while the spread of the coronavirus has stoked fears of a systemic sell-off. -
IHS Markit mulls CDX EM growth and iTraxx ESG screen
5 years ago
Increasing the portfolio size of CDX EM and consulting on an ethically-screened version of iTraxx Europe are among the projects index administrator IHS Markit has been working on ahead of the 20 March roll. -
Covid-19 outbreak rattles carry traders
5 years ago
The coronavirus panic hitting financials markets at the end of February has been a strong driver of relative value trades, with CDS underperforming both cash bonds and equity, while financial names felt the heat more than corporate borrowers as geographical risk came into play. -
Correlation rise stokes mezz rally but adds to CSO woes
5 years ago
Below the calm surface of the credit market, correlation has been churning and creating dislocations rich with reward for index tranche traders but complicating bespoke issuance, say sources.
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