Credit markets

Sting in the tail

Credit spreads on highly rated names have blown out to levels that are proving irresistible to many buy-and-hold investors such as pension funds. But tail risk in the form of increased default expectations is still a major consideration. Blake Evans…

On the crest of a wave

Corporate bond volumes have been soaring as companies scramble to meet their funding requirements in the wake of the loan market's demise. Simon Boughey looks at whether this wave of issuance is a temporary phenomenon or whether it heralds a permanent…

Robert Stheeman

The head of the UK's Debt Management Office, the body responsible for administering the wave of recent government issuance, tells Sarfraz Thind that the recent failed auction doesn't spell a death of demand for gilts

The price is right

Consensus on the input assumptions that financial institutions use to value structured finance securities is crucial if the market is to reach a universally agreed method of pricing these impaired assets. By Peter Jones of Standard & Poor's

Stopping the rot

Noises from leading banks that they may be returning to profitability are failing to mask the painful truth that vast quantities of toxic assets are still causing a stink on banks' balance sheets. Credit looks at the various plans being put forward to…

CDS spreads tighten on US financials

The cost of credit protection on US banks fell in early European trading today, while sentiment also improved towards Irish financials following yesterday's announcement of a government asset purchase scheme.

CDS spreads widen on Asian sovereigns

The cost of credit protection on east Asian sovereigns rose in early European trading today, despite predictions from the World Bank that China's economy will bottom out by mid-2009, offering a ray of hope for the region.

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