Bid-ask spreads see double-digit tightening in early 2025
Analysis of MarketAxess’s CP+ data, which analyses composite trading costs based on traded bonds, has found that bid-ask-spreads have tightened by double digit percentages...
UK government debt issuance soars
The latest report from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), looking at European government bond markets, found that €1 trillion of bonds...
The UK’s inflation-linked notes getting snapped up
Data from Parameta, the TP ICAP company data and analytics provider, shows the five-year breakeven inflation rate for the UK, which represents a measure...
MarketAxess: CP+™ for ETFs: Improving ETF portfolio management with predictive pricing
In a recent conversation, Kat Sweeney (Global Head of ETFs and Data Solutions at MarketAxess) and Jeff Lenamon (Head of Portfolio Construction & Senior...
Bid-ask spread betting in credit
Betting how bid-ask spreads will move this year has been made more challenging by a dislocation between the mean average and the median bid-ask...
EM stabilising could encourage market makers
Emerging market activity has seen a reduction in volatility in the first half of the year, with both volumes and pricing levels falling slightly,...
The effect of trade sizes on high yield liquidity costs
Trading in high yield markets across the Atlantic is diverging considerably, with average trade sizes and bid-ask spreads tracking quite different patterns, according to...
European bid-ask credit spreads not assuaged by tariff roll back
Liquidity costs in European corporate bond trading remain elevated, after the tariff shock in early April saw bid-ask spreads widen significantly across markets, according...
The cost of liquidity in EM today
A very graphic representation of the cost of liquidity can be seen in the latest data from MarketAxess. It shows that average daily volume...
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