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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.

ABN AMRO is launching an index tracker which references a new eco-index.

Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers have both launched retail investment notes in the U.S. linked to baskets of base metals.

Seasoned asset-backed securities investors are set to start trading the synthetic ABS indices.

Costas Katsileros, director in index options trading at ABN AMRO in London, has left the firm.

Hedge funds were piling into short-dated options on yen crosses last week after the global equity market sell-off spread to the yen carry trade.

The commercial mortgage backed derivative index, CMBX, widened about 22 basis points in one day last week, prompting concern the panic-selling traders have dubbed as 'ABX flu' was spreading.

Citigroup is working on a long/short constant proportion debt obligation.

Last year proved to be another break-through year for structuring fund-linked investment products in the U.S. Guidance from the Securities Exchange Commission, along with historic U.S. pension fund reforms, allowed dealers to structure closed-end fund-of-funds platforms that offer both institutional and retail investors leveraged access to single-manager hedge funds.

Credit Suisse is marketing a first-of-a-kind synthetic collateralized commodities obligation.