“It’s a lot of wishful thinking. It could happen at some point, but in my opinion this is too soon.”

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“It’s a lot of wishful thinking. It could happen at some point, but in my opinion this is too soon.”

—Mikhail Fox, head of U.S. credit and derivatives strategy at Citigroup in New York, on Morgan Stanley reviving the Phoenix collateralized synthetic obligation so early in the recovery, after shelving it in the fourth quarter.

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