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Credit Investment News is looking to take the temperature of the market and is carrying out an impromptu and anonymous summer survey of where market players think spreads, OIDs, trading levels and other trends will be heading in the next few months.

--Scott Daum, v.p. at Tricor Pacific Capital, on the company's recent credit facility.

In the sometimes murky credit market, it pays to get clarifications.

Moody's Investors Service released a report that raised concerns about the loan-only credit default swap template.

The private equity group Tricor Pacific Capital's relationship with GE Antares helped it land more favorable terms on a recent credit facility for the acquisition by one of its portfolio companies, Tharco Packaging

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.

Citigroup has moved up from third into second place on the structured private placement table courtesy of ¥5.9bn of structures settling this week.

The question being asked by all the main investment banks is, “how can we make a respectable amount of money in the fourth quarter?” Thank heavens for the racing start to the year and a modest second quarter which allowed a generous contribution to the bonus pool. If it hadn’t been for this happy period, the cupboard might be looking rather bare, and Santa Claus might have passed by altogether.

From windy Zurich we are told that the whole city was on edge ahead of the UBS results. In the cafés and bars along the Bahnhofstrasse they were speculating how UBS would hide its true trading losses incurred by Dillon Read Capital Management.