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Counterparty Risk Easing: CDS Spreads Decline
According to BCA Research, CDS spreads declined sharply last week, further indicating that normalization of inter-bank lending could develop. CDS…
Navigating Volatility: The Case for Tactical Alpha
In today's volatile markets, alternative investments are key for diversification, resilience, and returns, but they demand expertise to navigate. Ash Lawrence, Head of AGF Capital Partners and Scott Radke, CEO and Co-CIO of New Holland Capital discuss...
Falling LIBOR Spells Relief
Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh what a relief it is... Finally LIBOR rates have fallen meaningfully, and that…
Interest Rates Cut by 0.50% Around World
Key Central Banks around the globe have announced a concerted cutting of interest rates, by 0.50%, this morning,…
European Credit Crisis Deepens Global Selloff
Ongoing credit market turmoil and a rapidly deteriorating economic outlook have hit global equities very hard. Ongoing credit…
Euro Down Against Dollar
As pointed out by one of our favourite commentators, Hugh Hendry, CIO, Eclectica Asset Management, Ireland's plans to…
Hendry: Ireland's Guarantee will Destroy Euro
We are huge fans of Hugh Hendry, the outspoken and brash CIO of UK based UK-based Eclectica Asset…
High Yield Credit Spreads at Record Levels
As of today, credit spreads on High Yield bonds have attained new heights, those not seen since October…
Bailout Failure: Voters Rescued
Perhaps the biggest problem with the credit market debacle is that Main Street doesn't get it. Literally. Try…
Is There a Bull Market Somewhere?
Not likely, according to PIMCO's Bill Gross. In his most recent Investment Outlook, Gross, reasons and opposes (for…
Credit Crisis Observations
Niels Jensen and Jan Wilhelmsen of Absolute Return Partners (www.arpllp.com) produced an informative analysis of the credit crisis…
Highs and Lows of the Week
The following chart shows how the ten sectors of the S&P 500 performed this week in the context of…
Pershing Square Capital Management Releases Letter to U.S. Treasury Department Regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. sent the following letter September 6, 2008 (courtesy: BusinessWire) to the U.S. Treasury Department regarding…
The Devil's Dictionary for Financial Markets
The Devil's Dictionary, was originally published by Ambrose Bierce. Think of him as the forgotten brother of Mark…
Commodity Snapshot
Below we provide Bespoke's trading range charts of ten major commodities. The green shading represents two standard deviations…
Hendry: De-flation is Contrarian
Hugh Hendry, CIO, Partner, Eclectica "Bonds! The credit crunch â youâve got to go back to 1942 to…
