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  • For investors looking to position for a reversal of the recent sell-off in the belly of the sterling swap curve, strategists at Barclays recommend 3m*4y receiver spreads and 3m*(7y-30y) bull steepeners.
  • Brian Alvarez, a single-stock derivatives trader at Citigroup in New York, has joined JPMorgan, as an executive director in equity derivatives, also in New York.
  • Saad Hammoud, the ex-head of equity derivative trading at Nomura in London, has joined hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management in a new role.
  • Nicholas Strain, the ex-head of fx emerging market sales at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, is joining BNP Paribas in a similar role.
  • Investors should buy receiver spreads 1x2 and ladders on the iTraxx Main, since such instruments offer a cheap or zero cost way to construct a bullish position ahead of an address by Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the Federal Open Market Committee on June 19. Bernanke is expected to announce that the Fed will begin tapering monetary policy in the U.S., leading some strategists to take a position on the iTraxx Main that will benefit in the event that the index tightens.
  • The first South Korean synthetic exchange-traded funds will likely reference U.S. and Korean high yield bonds and real estate investment trusts when the market starts trading sometime this summer.