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Ken Emery, director of corporate default for Moody's Investors Service, regarding Metaldyne's attempt to buy back its bonds at distressed rates.

Those Morgan Stanley traders, what jokesters. Weir & Co. had a little fun with the market sending out a "MS $2.4B BWIC ­ 'We're Finally Fessing up'" list to investors last week after rumors of a multi-billion dollar sale out of the bank surfaced.

JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns took a second go at syndicating a $4 billion piece of a $7.5 billion first-lien term loan to back Chrysler Automotive's buyout by Cerberus Capital Management.

Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for less than $250m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, self-led deals and issues with a term of less than 365 days.

Hypo Real Estate group is understood to have boosted the level of overcollateralisation for the mortgage cover pool of HRE Bank AG enough to avert a multi-notch downgrade by Fitch of the corresponding Pfandbriefe.

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The New York supreme court has dismissed six causes of action of HSH Nordbank against UBS, and allowed two, in the dispute over the synthetic CDO, North Street Reference Linked Notes 2002-4.

Dollar swap spreads have continued to contract this week and the trend is likely to continue.

Nederlandse Gasunie priced a Sfr700m three year bond at 145bp over mid-swaps through Credit Suisse and UBS yesterday (Thursday). The bookrunners and other bankers were astonished by both the spread and size of the deal.