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Hedge funds and real money investors are looking at trading flatteners on the iTraxx Main, expecting the start of quantitative easing in Europe to push all spreads tighter, therefore, benefiting such a strategy.
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Transaction reporting required by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive can now be done by Bloomberg’s sellside trading solution, Trade Order Management Solutions, after it was rubber stamped by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as an Approved Reporting Mechanism on Thursday.
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European investment grade credit has comfortably outperformed its US counterpart over the past 12 months. Based on the differing fortunes of the respective economies in the two regions, this might seem surprising. But the basis between the Markit iTraxx Europe and the Markit CDX IG indices demonstrates the trend quite clearly.
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Most equity indexes around the world are at or near multi-year highs, but you wouldn’t know it from the skew in index options.
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Market participants have welcomed the European Securities and Markets Authority’s decision to change its focus from collecting reported trade data to checking quality and access to regulators. This comes as EMSA believes there is more work to be done before collected data can be used to detect systemic risk.
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Average pricing on orders executed on electronic trading venues could be the key to opening up a wider migration to central limit order books from the request-for-quote trading protocol, according to investors.