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After two months with no covered bond supply from peripheral Europe, the last two weeks have seen two benchmark deals that priced tight to where their respective government bonds trade. But that’s where the similarities end. The deals' outcomes could not have been more different.
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While the high yield bond market goes from strength to strength, thoughts are turning to what happens when interest rates start to rise. Participants needn’t worry. Instead they should be watching out for irresponsible lending hidden in the froth that comes with any booming market.
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The FSA’s new guidelines on risk weighting securitisations are not surprising in themselves. The odd thing is that they’ve taken so long to break cover, while regulators have busily worked themselves into a lather over loan level data and other distractions.
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Copper miner Kazakhmys had been hoping to sell stock in Hong Kong, until it shelved its plan last week. But instead of taking a step back entirely, the company has opted to list by way of introduction. This is not a good plan B. Kazakhmys should wait until the market is recovered — and hit all of its objectives in one attempt.
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An imbalance is building up in the MTN market with many investors in medium term notes becoming full on certain issuers, while a lot of those issuers have made deep inroads into their annual funding requirements. This means that dealers for the remaining six months of the year will have their work cut out matching investor and issuer expectations.
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is taking a big risk in prosecuting Arcadia Petroleum. If it fails, the case for better regulation of commodity speculation will suffer a heavy blow.