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--Elliot Ganz, general counsel for The Loan Syndications and Trading Association, on last week's ruling by a US Court of Appeals to overturn a district court decision allowing substantive consolidation of Owens Corning's subsidiaries.

The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week. Data provided by Markit Group.

ABN AMRO has hired Paul Lewis, equity index trader at Citigroup in London, in a new role as a variance swap trader.

Barclays Capital will expand its presence in Asian structured product markets, including the Hong Kong retail market.

BlackRock, the mammoth U.S. investment manager with USD414 billion under management, is gearing up to manage a single tranche collateralized debt obligation referenced to synthetic asset-backed securities.

Adrian Hyde, a managing director in global credit products with Banc of America Securities in New York, has taken a sabbatical.

Product Innovations, a U.K. investment products boutique, has structured an income and growth offering with Abbey Financial Markets.

Deutsche Bank has hired two salesmen for its City desk to cover European equity derivative sales to the U.S.

Citigroup is preparing to launch a best-of capital protected note in Australia that offers exposures to three different asset allocation strategies.

Investors stocked up on euro puts last week anticipating further U.S. dollar appreciation against the single currency.