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  • Last week investors were feeling nervous about emerging market credit. Fund outflows were increasing and spreads in emerging market sovereigns widening sharply.
  • Institutional investors scooped profits by unwinding short-term puts on the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Exchange-Traded Note (VXX) just prior to comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday, setting out that the U.S. may scale back bond purchases.
  • The launch on June 3, 2013 of the IIFM Interbank Unrestricted Master Investment Wakalah Agreement by the International Islamic Financial Market is another milestone in the development of liquidity management products for Islamic Financial Institutions and another milestone in the project of standardisation in Islamic Finance documentation.
  • Corporates and hedge funds are largely maintaining long positions in the Australian dollar instead of hedging their exposures, despite the recent depreciation of the currency against the U.S. dollar.
  • The CDX is overvalued and investors should look to short it. That’s the view of a number of Street analysts.
  • Francois Pham-Quang, the former head of European equity derivative sales at Lehman Brothers in London, has joined London-based interdealer broker Forte Securities.