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  • The big news last week was Jacob Kaippallimalil, the ex-global head of the quantitative trading group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, joining UBS in a new role as head of automated market making.
  • Equity markets have unofficially reached go-go status. There are a number of investors following the buy anything playbook and so far this year it is working. However, the option market is singing a very different tune.
  • Spreads on iTraxx indices have tightened to some of the lowest levels seen this year following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday. The U.S. Federal Reserve gave a cautious assessment of the U.S. economy and withheld further details of any tapering of monetary policy until September.
  • To take advantage of the wide spread in 30y rates in the U.S. dollar against sterling, strategists at the Royal Bank of Scotland are recommending a zero-cost payer structure.
  • Buysiders are increasingly tapping vanilla puts and calls with weekly expirations as a tool to hedge or take directional views on the S&P 500.
  • Credit markets were given every reason to rally this week after economic data blew away expectations, the robust earnings season continued and central banks maintained their dovish stance.