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Monday’s 6% slump in Singaporean financial stocks is one of the biggest overreactions since the subprime mortgage turmoil began.
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The German government-coordinated bail-out of IKB proves that Moody’s was right to make implicit state support a pillar of bank ratings. Right? Wrong. The debacle shows that rating agencies can only guess what might happen.
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Securitisation investors have got used to placid markets, spread tightening and a constant pumping out of deals. European issuance might still reach Eu500bn this year, but several years’ spread tightening has been reversed.
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Problems in isolated sectors have sent all the main bond markets into a frenzy of selling and anxiety. Why has most of the loan market remained placid as leveraged finance crumbles? The answer lies in one word: relationships.
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Reared on a diet of triple-A issuers, structured note investors have recently begun to buy a lot of notes issued by the dealers themselves. But will they flee, now that the investment banks’ credit spreads have been shot to ribbons?
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At a time of global uncertainty, it is tempting to see China as the panacea — even, a safe haven. Investors should not be so unwary: risks of economic weakness or a stockmarket crash remain.