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  • Macro hedge funds are using the recent decline in the Nikkei 225 as a buying opportunity, executing short-dated February, March or April upside calls with strikes ranging from 16,000-to-17,000.
  • The China Financial Futures Exchange plans to launch options on the CSI300 index and index futures, while the Shanghai Stock Exchange is planning options on at least four initial single stocks and two exchange traded funds; SSE50 ETF and SSE180 ETF.
  • Peripheral eurozone debt has made a strong start to 2014 and the positive momentum continued with Portugal tapping the capital markets for funds.
  • Calls and call spreads on the Eurostoxx Banks, as well as a significant move by investors to replace options with equity exposure, are driving a break higher in the index.
  • Standard Life Investments has launched a short duration credit fund that uses derivatives to reduce the duration inherent in the corporate bonds it holds. The fund is derived from the conversion of the firm’s Standard Life Investments’ Select Income Fund which took place Jan. 8.
  • Investors should look at buying March 2014 or June 2014 call spreads on the KOSPI2 with strikes between 105-and-115% of spot in a bid to benefit from global growth recovery in 2014, or potential central bank intervention in the Korean won.