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'Everyone is ready for summer to be over' as SSA wave builds for Monday
Analysts discuss the scope of tightening in Bund swap spreads and the impact on SSA spreads
OATs and OLOs could weaken further versus Bunds while southern European countries and EU continue to paint a positive picture
Uncertainty looms large as presidential race far from clear and budget negotiations potentially ‘highly challenging’
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Traders are looking forward to the prospect of supranational, sovereign and agency borrowers finally having to post collateral against the swaps they enter into with securities firms, a likely consequence of derivatives reform in the US which Europe is expected to implement soon.
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A pick-up in US real money buying is keeping high grade public sector credits well bid in secondary markets, but flows are too thin to support new issue activity. "It is definitely a good sign to see these US accounts buying European names in three and five year dollars," said one London trader.
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Fannie Mae and the Inter-American Development Bank took advantage this week of the continuing rally in dollar bond markets to price impressive new benchmarks.
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