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  • Goldman Sachs is set to roll-out a structured note that combines exposure to equities, commodities, currencies, and Treasury bonds in what is known as a best-of basket format. Such structures are rarely seen in U.S. structured products.
  • Hedge funds have been buying novel cross-asset dispersion structures on the S&P 500 and euro/U.S. dollar, playing the view the underlyings will both stay range bound. The thinking is sovereign debt concerns in Spain and Italy will be cleaned up by the European Central Bank, resulting in little to no risk of a tail event coming out of Europe.
  • South Korea saw a sharp bounce in the issuance of structured notes in Q1 2012 to KRW960 billion (USD 840 million) from KRW480 billion (USD422 million) in Q4 2011, with 15-year dual-currency range accruals the most popular note issued so far this year.
  • Craig James, a former director in equity derivative trading at Deutsche Bank in New York, has launched a hedge fund in Hong Kong.
  • The European regulation curbing both short selling and naked credit default swaps on sovereign issuers came into force 25 March.
  • The French election results were always going to be crucial for spread direction this week. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has his nose in front after the first round and the polls indicate that he will win the second round comfortably on May 6.