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  • Goldman Sachs priced the Eu652m CLO, Global Senior Loan Index Fund I, managed by Harbourmaster Capital, on Monday.
  • Dark liquidity gets European with the arrival of SmartPool
  • Our recent comments on Merrill Lynch seem to have touched a raw nerve. A friend who works at Morgan Stanley sent a message saying: "We always assumed that you were one of Stan O’Neal’s cheerleaders," while a senior manager at Merrill in New York asked: "How are we going to get our shares back towards $100 if you say that we don’t have our management skittles in line?"
  • UBS’s chairman, Marcel Ospel, will probably not be pleased, but the bank continues to attract a disproportionate amount of interest.
  • Table one: 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 auction procedure designed by Creditex and Markit to allow cash settlement of CDS positions was used for contracts referencing loans rather than bonds for the first time this week.
  • Table two: Non-syndicated deals for less than $250m.
  • Two new euro CMS deals have been priced in the last week (see main story over page), with the leading houses for the product placing both new issues. Merrill Lynch and Calyon have shared 29% of CMS-linked placements in euros this year, Dealogic figures show.
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  • We haven’t yet received cold calls from Mumbai and Manchester asking us to donate money to a ‘Save the Bear’ Fund, but we suspect that it is only a matter of time.
  • Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) priced its debut Eu2bn five year covered bond at 10bp over mid-swaps on Tuesday morning, successfully positioning the Canadian market inside other structured covered bond sectors.