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--Steve Howard, director of capital markets at Toyota Motor Credit Corp. in Torrance, Calif., explaining the corporate's decision to offer a base-metal-linked medium-term note.

Toyota Motor Credit Corp. is preparing to issue investment notes with an embedded option on a basket of three base metals.

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

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.

--Mark Yale, cfo of Glimcher Realty Trust, on why the company needs increased flexibility in its borrowing.

Bank of America is preparing a $1 billion unsecured term loan for Intelsat to take out $1 billion of floating rate senior notes due 2012.

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The money spigot is still wide open and borrowers are splashing around with covenant lite deals.

Investors were looking at the credit to back the leveraged buyout of Deluxe Film by MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, concerned about the affect digital imaging would have on the company.

Proprietary trading desks at banks are becoming increasingly more involved in the loan market and several are looking to do a collateralized loan obligation.

The triple-A bond market endured a week of suspense this week, as market participants waited for the onslaught of sovereign, supranational and agency deals that always hits the market at the beginning of January.

Lehman Brothers has closed the first managed cash flow, collateralized debt obligation with loan-only credit default swap contracts as the underlying assets and is getting ready to close another.