United States
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Dollar FIG volumes caught up with last year’s levels this week, after completing a dramatic turnaround with the help of a flurry of bank issuance in April. -
BP and Philip Morris ensured a strong end to the month for the US high grade bond market with benchmark trades as they caught a market crying out for supply following quarterly earnings blackout and the April meeting of the Federal Reserve.
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Markit and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association have offered concessions to the European Commission in the hope of settling an EU anti-trust investigation into credit default swap trading.
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Ullink, the trading technology and infrastructure company, has begun providing direct connectivity to trueEX, an interest rate swap execution facility.
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China’s Yintech Investment Holdings closed unchanged on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday, after pricing its $101.3m IPO at the mid-point of the range.
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Dollar-yen currency option prices have risen sharply this week in line with shifting expectations for the Bank of Japan meeting on Thursday, after details were leaked by anonymous officials of a possible negative loan rate to encourage banks to lend.
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Liberty Mutual Group was having a second stab at its first ever benchmark issuance of euro senior unsecured bonds on Tuesday, having conducted a roadshow in 2015 for a print that did not materialise.
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A rally in US equities has led to the largest build-up in short VIX futures positions among hedge funds in at least a year, according to data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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JP Morgan paid a negligible premium for a 10.5 year euro senior unsecured deal on Monday, as it became the last major US bank to issue following earnings.
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The chance of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union has been driving sterling option premiums sharply higher, but so far has not affected the price of risk in the euro. That, say strategists, is likely to change.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association's EMEA Determinations Committee has ruled that Norske Skog has triggered a restructuring credit event.
