The Trading Intentions Survey 2022
New platforms and late bloomers are all seeing greater interest.
This year buy-side desks have a renewed vigour for investing in trading tools, with far...
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Implications of Atlanta Fed negative GDPNow score for US credit
The Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in the US hit 2.4% on 6 March 2025, up from -2.8 percent on 3 March,...
Analysis: E-trading platforms see gains and losses in corporate bond market battle
Morgan Stanley analysis of the monthly reports from market operators Tradeweb and MarketAxess, has shown wins and losses in market share for both platforms.
Looking...
Invesco’s 2023 Fixed income outlook: ‘A promising year after a painful selloff’
Invesco has published its outlook for fixed income markets in 2023, noting that valuations now look more attractive, and yields are higher than they...
Substantially higher US investment grade stress going into 2023
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Corporate Bond Market Distress Index (CMDI) is closing 2022 with investment grade US bond markets twice as distressed as...
Portfolio trading breaks into new markets
Emerging markets are adopting PT to add efficiency to liquidity sourcing, writes Matt Walters of MarketAxess.
Portfolio trading has seen a lot of success and...
Tradeweb and MarketAxess see credit volumes increase over 25% in December
Market operators MarketAxess and Tradeweb have released their December trading levels, with both seeing a monthly increase of 25% in credit trading average daily...
US markets seeing risk implied in bid-ask spread
While US stock markets are in turmoil, US investment grade bond markets are also reflecting the greater uncertainty caused by an erratic approach to...
Measuring digital bond issuance
The use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to issue bonds can tackle several concerns in the debt markets. Firstly, it reduces the fragmented information...
Chart of the week: ECB rates rise expectations
Expectations on the European Central Bank’s appetite to increase its interest rate will have a direct and negative impact on European bond trading which...
