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A weekend rate cut by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) boosted China's equity market on Monday and supported the short end of the CNY rates curve. Foreign receivers were active in 1-2 year NDIRS and traders expect the steep 1s/5s slope to trigger profit-taking soon. -
Event driven macroeconomic factors are driving investors to put on options hedges, particularly as sell-offs in credit and interest rate markets spill over to equities, according to strategists.
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Investors are finally taking seriously the prospect of continued expansion in the US economy. An extended quiet period this spring pulled levels of implied risk to near multi-year lows, as investors showed reduced demand for hedges and protection while bonds remained strong and first quarter earnings looked passable.
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It wasn’t so long ago — less than three weeks, in fact — that the big story in European financial markets was very low, or even negative, government bond yields. Germany’s 10 year Bunds were trading below 0.05% in mid-April, while sovereign bonds in the eurozone’s periphery were quoted at lower yields than US Treasuries.
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After the credit crisis, the compliance crunch. Market players wrangling with the regulatory ringwraiths Dodd-Frank, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation and the Market in Financial Instruments Directive, to name a few, are buried under sprawling compliance and capital efficiency demands. It’s time to outsource.
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Changing regulations, evolving cost structures and collateral optimisation systems moving to the front office are forcing buyside firms to consider outsourcing their operations, according to a leading market research firm.
