Pre-migration untagged articles

The plain headstone in stark black marble, but with a discreetly engraved silver skull and crossbones on a pirate’s flag, would say: "Here lies a hedge fund (2005-2007) RIP".

Dollar swap spreads compressed yesterday (Thursday) as a wave of new issuance hit the US debt markets in the wake of the FOMC meeting on Wednesday.

-- Clint Freeland, v.p. and treasurer of NRG Energy, on the company's new capital allocation plan.

This month's Bloomberg Tag of the Month Winner is Laura Rogers, head trader at Ares Management.

Debt for NRG Energy fizzled after it announced a 25 basis point cut on its $3.575 billion term loan, but the company has bigger plans than just a price cut.

Deutsche Bank hired John Fisher as a new par trader after Steve Snizek moved to London.

This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market.

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.

Depfa ACS Bank had the jumbo covered bond market to itself this week, launching a Eu1bn December 2009 issue outside its benchmark programme to target German accounts.