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  • Morgan Stanley in London has nabbed Alex Kirgiannakis, a flow credit-default swap trader at Deutsche Bank. He started at the firm Monday and reports to Patrick Lynch, executive director and head trader of the corporate credit group in London, said Carlos Melville, spokesman at Morgan Stanley. Stacey Coglan, spokeswoman at Deutsche Bank, did not comment on a replacement for Kirgiannakis by press time.
  • Investors looking to add synthetic credit to their cross-asset class portfolios have emerged as the first players to show interest in total-return swaps on the iTraxx index, a play debuted by JPMorgan last month. The swaps allow them to buy or sell exposure to European credit through a vehicle that tracks returns on the iTraxx CDS index.
  • Brazil will post a trade surplus of $42 billion in 2006, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade. The country’s trade surplus was $27.3 billion in the period January 1 to August 13, 2006. The target for the 42 billion surplus was set by the ministry in July, and the average monthly surplus has to stand at $5.0 billion to achieve it.
  • ABN AMRO is rolling out its novel constant proportion debt obligation structure to antipodean investors. The firm is marketing AUD100 million (USD76 million) and NZD100 million (USD63 million) of the fully rated capital-protected notes.
  • Commerzbank has hired Edwin Bernard, head of equity derivative product structuring at ING Wholesale Banking in Singapore, in a new senior role.
  • HSBC last week hired Susan Lee, marketer at Citigroup in Hong Kong, in a new role as director in the investor sales group in Hong Kong.
  • The Thai baht last week reached a six-year high of 37.34 against the US dollar yesterday. The baht has been strengthening on the back of steady capital inflows and buying by foreign institutional investors. Economists predict reported that the Baht is likely to further strengthen and touch 37 to the US dollar by the third quarter of 2007.
  • This week: a critical look at India, Mexico's 30-year peso bond, inflation in the Czech Republic, high-saving Chinese processing firms
  • Weiqiao Textile, one of the world's largest textile companies, has increased its three year loan from $210m to $280m after commitments from 23 lenders left the deal heavily oversubscribed.
  • China this week published new rules on mergers and acquisitions that permit share swaps but impose further restrictions on the sale of certain state-owned enterprises. While the revisions have been long expected, the changes will send a mixed message to foreign investors that may be interested in acquiring controlling stakes in well known Chinese companies.
  • The Australian government's plans to sell its remaining A$25bn ($19bn) stake in Telstra Corp, the national telecom company, have been damaged yet again by Telstra's poor second half profit figure — down 46% on the same period in 2005 — and weak outlook.
  • Global Ethanol Holdings' attempt to launch its A$460m ($350m) Sydney IPO was becalmed this week by the summer lull in the markets.