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--Richard Fortin, cfo of Quebec-based supermarket chain Alimentation Couche-Tard, on U.S. banks looking for business in Canada.

Italian issuers are set to flood the market with up to 10 high-yield sales next year after just one this year.

--Drew Matus, senior economist at Lehman Brothers, on the debate over whether the Treasury should do away with the debt ceiling and how it is influenced by politics.

The addition of five dealers to Fannie Mae's core group of dealers could cause bid/offer spreads to tighten due to the increased competition for the same amount of issuance.

Three European high-yield deals are widely expected to start roadshowing this week or next and should be priced before Christmas, along with VNU World Directories (BW, 11/15) which conducted an investor roadshow last week in London.

Hoisington Investment Management Company is slowly trying to market the $50 million Treasury Inflation Protected Securities portion of its portfolio.

The Potomac Funds, an asset manager which entered the taxable fixed-income market earlier this year, plans to set up a fund to take long positions in the government bond market early next year.

J.P. Morgan has bagged Matt Zames, managing director and co-head of U.S. rates trading at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, to take on a similar role.

FriedbergMilstein is nearing the finish line on a $584 million collateralized loan obligation that will be the first CLO to invest primarily in mezzanine debt.

Gartmore Separate Accounts may pick up agency paper if yields widen, said Dan Portanova, managing director and portfolio manager of $150 million in investment-grade fixed-income in Irvington, N.Y.

An SAC Capital Advisors subsidiary is starting a global fixed-income fund and has hired Peter Abramenko, a big shot buy-side trader previously at UBS Principal Finance, to lead the charge.