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Morgan Stanley is marketing investment notes linked to an agricultural index to U.S. investors.

Hedge funds were snapping up short-dated options on yen crosses last week to capture volatility after the yen gained in the spot market.

FriedbergMilstein has engaged GSO Capital Partners as a sub-advisor to three of its collateralized debt obligation funds, FriedbergMilstein Private Capital Fund I, FM Leveraged Capital Fund I and FM Leveraged Capital Fund II.

Investors were partying South Beach-style last week at the JPMorgan High-Yield Conference in Miami.

The team of Flagship Capital Management joined Deutsche Asset Management and the six collateralized loan obligations Flagship manages moved with them and continued to carry the Flagship name.

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

The repricing for VNU N.V. is being cited by some buysiders as a prime example of voting language that allows all lenders to vote for an amendment even if it affects a tranche in which it does not hold paper.

--David Wenner, ceo of B&G Foods, on the company's acquisition of the Cream of Wheat and Cream of Rice hot cereal brands from Kraft Foods Global.

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.

Aladdin Capital Management (UK), the London office of Aladdin Capital Management, is pre-marketing its first European collateralized loan obligation.

The barrage of 10 year dollar and euro bond issues from triple-A public sector borrowers continued this week — but they were outgunned by the banks, which bombarded the market with more deals than market participants could remember in any previous week.

Volatility in asset-backed securities is drying up liquidity and driving bid-ask spreads wider across the single-name ABS credit-default swap market, some were as wide as 50 basis points last week.