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Grab the nearest UBS contact and head to Café St. Bart's this Thursday for the bank's annual fixed-income Cinco de Mayo party.

Michaels Stores was seeking to cut 50 basis points off the pricing on its $2.4 billion term loan.

-- Shelly Lombardo, analyst with Gimme Credit, on the potential second quarter results for American Axle & Manufacturing.

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.

Swap spreads narrowed alongside tighter Treasury yields after the US Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by another 25bp to 2% on Wednesday.

A 25 YEAR old employee of HSBC’s corporate trust and loan agency business was this week charged in connection with an alleged Eu90m fraud at the bank. Three other men remain on police bail, but the bank said neither it nor any of its customers lost money.

FITCH has released the final version of its controversial revised methodology for corporate CDOs. The agency imposed a moratorium on rating corporate CDOs in late 2007 and published a draft methodology in February.

MARKIT, the provider of derivatives data, will launch the MCDX Index on Tuesday (May 6), a new index based on 50 municipal bond credit default swaps.

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.

The CHEERFUL tone in public credit markets finally spilled over into MTNs and private placements in the early part of the week as spreads tightened and some rare issuers returned to the market.

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank made its maiden Russian rouble issue this week, furthering its attempts to diversify its issuance currencies and investor base and to build its rouble business.