Spreads are wider week over week in what seems to have become a recurring theme.  The tone of the market is mixed as we go to print this Friday afternoon but market participants remain wary of risk.  Geopolitical turmoil in Europe remains at the forefront but there have been other challenges and there are more […]

For the second consecutive week, spreads will finish a Thursday evening at the widest levels of the year.  The tone of the market is also feeling heavy this Friday morning as we got to print amid geopolitical fallout from Europe.  The prospect of a nuclear incident at a Ukrainian facility is not something the markets […]

Spreads finished Thursday of this week at their widest levels of the year but there has been a significant retracement through Friday morning.  The first half of the trading day on Thursday was extraordinarily weak with poor performance for risk assets as investors digested the news out of Europe before equities and credit staged a […]

Spreads will finish the week tighter, reclaiming some ground after having experienced headwinds in the week prior which saw the index close two days at 101 –its widest level of 2021.  The OAS on the Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index closed at 96 on Thursday, December 9, after having closed the week prior at 100.  […]

Spreads inched tighter throughout the week.  The OAS on the Blomberg Barclays Corporate Index closed at 86 on Friday, November 5, after having closed the week prior at 88.  On Wednesday, in a move that was widely anticipated, the Federal Reserve proceeded with the implementation of its plan to gradually taper the pace of asset […]

Spreads look to finish the week unchanged as Treasury yields inch higher.  The OAS on the Blomberg Barclays Corporate Index closed at 85 on Thursday October 7 after having closed the week prior at 84 but the market is trading tighter as we go to print mid-morning on Friday October 8.  Treasury yields have moved […]

Spreads are set to finish the week tighter, reclaiming the move wider that occurred the week prior.  The OAS on the Blomberg Barclays Corporate Index closed Thursday August 26 at a spread of 88 after having closed last week at 91 –spreads are relatively unchanged as we go to print on Friday afternoon.  The yield […]

Spreads are set to finish the week wider to the tune of 1-2 basis points.  The OAS on the Bloomberg Barclays Corporate Index closed Thursday August 5 at a spread of 88 after having closed the week prior at 86.  We are going to print amid a positive market tone on this Friday morning after […]

Spreads continued to trade sideways this week, having exhibited little change, though the index itself did hit a new mark for its tightest level of the year when it closed Wednesday at a spread of 80.  The OAS on the Blomberg Barclays Corporate Index closed Thursday July 1 at a spread of 81 after having […]

Spreads touched their narrowest levels of the year this week but are slightly wider off those tights as we go to print this Friday morning.  The OAS on the Blomberg Barclays Corporate Index closed Thursday at 82, after closing the previous week at 84.  Spreads have traded in a 5 basis point range over the […]