Tuesday, 3 March 2009

More bleeding

Where stock markets are victim of hedge funds and leveraged ETF's, credit markets are less impacted by this kind of manipulations, but both markets go down the same way: deep south.
The cost of protecting European debt becomes more and more expensive. This cost is measured by the iTraxx-indices.
The Markit iTraxx Crossover index of mostly junk-rated corporates widened to 1123 basis points, meaning it costs €1,123,000 annually to purchase five years of protection on a notional amount of €10m. A premium which have to be paid every year.

The iTraxx Europe index of mostly investment grade names - seen as a useful indicator of credit sentiment towards the continent’s banks - widened by 4.2bp to 193bp.
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