Weekly: Italy unseats Spain

Italy was the most active single name during the holiday shortened week

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PIG swaps at record

Yesterday, Greece reported a deficit of 10.5%, higher than the 9.4% of just a couple months ago and Greek CDS continued its upward trend.

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Weekly: Spain tops $10 billion

Spanish weekly credit default swap volumes topped $10 billion for the first time.

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Is Spain the most overpriced Eurozone CDS?

It might be according to one analyst who uses asset-swap spreads to explain.

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Weekly: Dixons Retail goes on a swapping spree

European consumers may be putting off their electronics purchases from the retailer but that is not stopping investors from buying (the swaps).

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What country’s default probability rose 19% last month?

Hint: the earthquake in Japan may have dominated the newswires but the country still has sizable reserves to fall back on unlike some other countries.

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Weekly: TEPCO powers up the swap markets

Tokyo Electric Power Co saw a record amount of credit default swaps trade last week.

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Weekly: Clariant CDS bubbles higher

Clariant, which just announced a purchase of rival Sued-Chemie, saw record trading in its credit default swaps last week.

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Weekly: Large trading in Portugal CDS

A record 308 credit default swap contracts spanning $5.3 billion in gross notional value protecting the sovereign debt of the Portuguese Republic traded last week.

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Ukraine & Latvia see biggest fall in credit risk

As measured by sovereign CDS over the year according to CMA Datavision.

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