Pre-migration untagged articles
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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. Data provided by Markit Group.
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Issuance of asset backed commercial paper for European issuers is more attractive in the US, according to a report by Fitch Ratings published this week.
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Two Australian banks sold local currency government guaranteed bonds to international investors this week, offering some encouragement to those involved in the sector.
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JPMorgan has announced a fourth quarter 2008 profit of $702m which is down more than 76% year on year. The bank has had to write down more than $2.9bn and reported earnings per share of 7¢, but the results were still slightly more positive than analysts had expected.
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AMTE subsumed into ICMA
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Moody’s has changed assumptions used in rating corporate synthetic CDOs, resulting in expected downgrades of between three and seven notches for the majority of the tranches that it rates.
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Arrangership and dealership tables include all programmes signed, as well as arrangers or dealers added or dropped in the stated time period.
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CIF Euromortgage launched a Eu230m tap of its Eu1.03bn 4.5% December 2013 obligations foncières issue on Tuesday and followed this up with a Eu310m increase to its Eu1.1bn 4% October 2016 obligations foncières on Wednesday.
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A novel use of contingent value rights, structured into a commodity-linked MTN format, helped EDF secure the acquisition of UK nuclear power generator British Energy, writes Francesca Young.
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Never rush sausage and sauerkraut
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Demand for Credit-Linked Notes (CLNs) has picked up this week, although trades of this sort are yet to be executed. There is particular interest in emerging market names and baskets of European sovereign bonds.
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Norwich & Peterborough Building Society has executed what is thought to be the first issue off a Eu7bn covered bond programme, a £510m (Eu565m) December 2012 floating rate note.