Loans market catches World Cup fever

It's June. And so it's time for the loan marketeers to start asking when the summer lull will kick in. In the last two years the answer has been a depressing: "Very soon" or "it's already begun”. This time the jury's still out. A couple of Russian deals have come to market only in the last week suggesting, some reckon, there's still at least another six weeks before the slowdown starts.