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After the launch of the loan-only credit default swaps index and the overall effect the ensuing volatility brought to the cash loan market, many market players are just looking to continue with the new technology and try to increase the volume of the single name LCDS, which seemed to take a bit of a backseat to the LCDX this year.

It's Invesco, not INVESCO! Please mind the caps, a spokesman for the Atlanta-based investment manager said.

• Investors were partying South Beach-style last week at the JPMorgan High-Yield Conference in Miami. Some even had the chance to work out with Mr. Sunshine himself, Hulk Hogan. Perhaps they were trying out for his next reality show, "Investors Know Best" (CIN, 1/26).

Call protection and a high coupon boosted Revlon's $840 million term loan, which broke for trading the week before.

Smaller deals and a slower rate of new issue should characterize 2008, market players predict.

-- Michael Zupon, managing director and head of U.S. leveraged finance group at The Carlyle Group, on the firm's investment strategy and need to hire and expand.

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.

"Cause I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For..." Some managers in New York got to party like rock stars last week as Citigroup hosted a little meet and greet where their high-yield analysts offered sector best picks before it was time to party.

The Loan Syndications and Trading Association held a meeting to discuss setting up formal guidelines for the total return swap market, which was then described as the "wild west of the loan market."

-- Darrell Crate, cfo of Affiliated Managers Group, on the use of its new credit facilities.

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.