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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.

Deals for telecom companies are getting their pricing goosed up in a market finally starting to push out spreads.

Abry Partners bought F+W Publications from Providence Equity Partners for $500 million after winning a Credit Suisse auction.

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

--Mary Kuan, assistant general counsel of the Bond Market Association, on the effect of NASD's proposal to disclose counterparty trade information on TRACE.

--Richard Omohundro, chairman of the investment committee at CypressTree Investment Management in London, on the firm considering using credit-default swaps on loans.

Taiwan's warrant market, one of the largest in Asia, has revived in recent weeks following the end of a several-month boycott by domestic issuers.

The Bank of Thailand is expected to remove constraints to trading onshore digital options for foreign exchange and interest-rate products, which have been hindering growth.

Investors who have bought into commodity index and basket derivatives in the last year are now working up an appetite for investments linked to biofuels.

BNP Paribas has hired David Arnold, head of the institutional client group at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, in a new role.

About 40 collateralized debt obligation traders, structurers and investors gathered last week at the Institute for International Research's CDO Summit 2006 at the Beekman Tower Hotel in New York.

Merrill Lynch has hired Lorenzo Centi-Colella from Goldman Sachs as a director and inflation swaps trader in London.