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The net amount of swaps traded through Series 9 of the Markit CDS North America Investment Grade Index plunged 7.5% to USD138.4 billion in the week ended June 8, the lowest level in three months and the biggest weekly decline since last July, according to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
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Credit markets have become accustomed to seeing spreads rally after a bailout for a peripheral country is announced. They are also familiar with the ephemeral nature of such rallies; Greece, Ireland and Portugal all saw their spreads continue to widen after the initial euphoria faded. But the rally after the Spanish bank bailout announced on Saturday has proved to be even shorter. -
Market officials are expecting greater flow in fx options referencing the Philippine peso after the country posted strong gross domestic product growth in the first half of 2012.
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Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan president and ceo, told U.S. senators today that the firm’s chief investment office had intended its wrong-way credit derivatives trades to hedge against a crisis, a position that leaves the distinction between a hedge and an investment under the so-called Volcker rule still unclear.
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Alliance Bernstein has cleared interest rate swaps through LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear, becoming the 75th end user to clear IRS with via the service.
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Five-year credit default swap spreads on Bulgaria’s sovereign debt have widened between 30 basis points and 50 bps to 350 bps in the past two months because Greek banks own 25% of the country’s bank sector.
