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Nomura Securities International has gained a new deputy chief economist.

This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market.

Surveys have been sent out for Loan Market Week's eight annual Best Trading Desk awards ranking the best par and distressed loan trading desks. (download survey here)

Some asset managers are speculating a large holder of TIPS is driving up breakevens, or the difference in yield between nominal Treasuries and the inflation-linked variety, on two-year TIPS.

--Christian Stracke, head of emerging market research at CreditSights, on the Argentina debt exchange and how it could dissuade investors from the asset class.

Wachovia Securities is organizing an unusual post-deal fieldtrip for high-yield investors who were routed after they participated in the firm's recent offering on behalf of US Oncology.

With the economy in Japan entering a recovery Standard & Poor's outlook for the overall Japanese banking industry is now positive

BNP Paribas is looking to close its first constant-maturity credit-default swaps on Asian underlyings in the coming weeks.

Calyon has reorganized its capital markets group, under new deputy CEO Marc Litzler.

Antoine Lebacq, equity derivatives salesman at Credit Suisse First Boston in London, has left the firm. Rebecca O'Neill, spokeswoman for CSFB, declined comment and Lebacq could not be reached.

Credit-default swap spreads have been heading toward new lows after two years of relentless spread tightening, but strategists are interpreting the last two weeks of spread widening as a buying opportunity rather than the start of sustained spread widening.