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Every once in a while you hear talk of ‘decoupling’ in the Asian capital markets. Analysts, investors, bankers — all the cool kids start saying it. Then a few months go by and ‘recoupling’ becomes the buzzword.
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It seems unlikely, but a French soap maker may mean more for Hong Kong’s stock market than a Russian metals company almost six times its size.
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The never-ending back and forth over Greece’s bail-out has put most of the European credit markets in deep freeze. So why then is securitisation so healthy?
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As an increasingly diverse range of European borrowers find attractive bond market funding, banks’ blinkered fixation with top-end companies may be hindering real development in the loan market. -
They saved Bear so they’ll save Lehman. They let Lehman go, so AIG is next. The rules changed from day to day back in September 2008 — and chaos ensued. So, now that Portuguese spreads are higher than the 5% at which Greece is supposedly allowed to borrow, will it too be bailed out? It’s time for a set of rules to define the European fiscal crisis — else Tuesday’s bond market chaos will run and run.
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A lack of supply in the loan market is pushing margins for the best borrowers tighter and leading to big oversubscriptions. But lucrative underwritten deals have yet to make a comeback. That could change if any brave lender decides to up the stakes.
