Comparing Corporate Bond Liquidity Across Regions
By Grant Lowensohn and Hidde Verholt.
Highlights
The US corporate bond market offers a significantly greater number of ISINs with high daily trade counts than other...
Chart of the week: When trading into the US, when should I trade?
Timing is everything in the markets, but not every market shares the same timing. It is common for trading desks to employ a trader...
Moody’s: Short-term refinancing to grow in 2025
A report from rating agency Moody’s, has found that the proportion of US non-financial investment-grade corporate bonds needing refinancing within five years has grown...
Bringing innovation and liquidity to the US Treasuries market
Earlier this month, PIMCO, one of the world’s largest fixed income asset managers, published their view on how to improve the functioning of the US...
The Loan Lowdown: Volatility’s impact on Leveraged Loans
Howard Cohen, Head of Leveraged Loans at MarketAxess.
Since early April, the leveraged loan market has trended in one direction. Risk assets have continued to...
Examining the (Thames) Water fall
In 2013 when markets still looked precarious amid the fallout from the financial crisis, utilities were a good investment.
With a near cast-iron cashflow...
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China focus: The outstanding debt of defaulters
Concern around issuer defaults in China is clearly based upon good evidence; our chart this week from S&P Global Ratings shows the annual growth...
Issuing at the top of the market
The high levels of bond issuance this year, made at what is widely expected to be peak interest rates, are potentially building up high...
Bid-ask spreads expanding in European credit
European credit traders have seen bid-ask spreads expand over the past two weeks, however this follows a notable tightening since summer, according to data...
Case Study
Axess IQTM: The eyes and ears of the market
Over the past twelve months, MarketAxess in partnership with Insigneo rolled out a pilot program to put...
