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Feb 2, 20231 min read
Bond Market Insights - Thu 02 Feb 2023
FOMC played out largely as expected with the Fed hiking rates by 25bps in a unanimous vote. During the press conference however, Powell...
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Jan 31, 20231 min read
Bond Market Insights - Tues, 31 Jan 2023
Australia: Buyers of Aussie bank T2 paper, spreads 1-3bps tighter. Bank of New Zealand issued BZLNZ 4.846 02/07/28 US$850mm senior...
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Jan 30, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Mon, 30 Jan 2023
Asia IG and Australia CDS markets open unchanged with sentiments turning soft for most of last Friday. Cash bond markets start 1-2bp...
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Jan 27, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Fri, 27 Jan 2023
The report on the Adani Group by activist short seller Hindenburg caused the curve to sell off 12-13pts in IG names, and 15-16pts in HY....
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Jan 26, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Thurs, 26 Jan 2023
Happy Australia Day! Australia and India joined China and Taiwan on holiday today, which kept volumes low. There was still better buying...
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Jan 25, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
China, HK and Taiwan are still closed for the Lunar New Year celebrations, so volumes were muted. Spreads on Asia credit were unchanged...
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Jan 20, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Fri, 20 Jan 2023
Asia investment grade Credit was in demand yesterday ahead of CNY. Real money was buying subordinated debt; AT1, T2, perpetuals. IG SOE...
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Jan 19, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Thu, 19 Jan 2023
Asia credit opened today’s session a couple bps wider in general, but 2-way will probably help it pull back, given the current level of...
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Jan 18, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Wed, 18 Jan 2023
In Europe yesterday a Bloomberg ECB source article claimed that the case for switching to 25bp, following 50bp in February was gaining...
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Jan 17, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Tues, 17 Jan 2023
Asian bonds continue to creep better with China data being better than market consensus despite the slowdown in growth rates: Dec retail...
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Jan 7, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Sat, 07 Jan 2023
US MARKETS - The first week of 2023 ended with an explosive rally in US rates after the December jobs report showed wage growth slowed,...
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Jan 6, 20232 min read
Bond Market Insights - Fri, 06 Dec 2022
China IG tightened another 2-5bps. More new issues came to the Asian market, but it was the wrong type, no supply coming from China...
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