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  • Illiquidity in the commercial mortgage-backed securities market is exacerbating the recent blowout in CMBS spreads. Spreads on 10-year, 30% subordination, AAA-rated bonds have doubled in recent weeks to reach 1,400 basis points over swaps.
  • Third-quarter results from Brazil’s leading banks – released at the end of October and the beginning of November – weren’t expected to have too many surprises. After all, most of the troubles that have affected the banking system after the period covered by the figures. The fourth-quarter results will be the first to show the true extent of problems.
  • Markit is looking to launch credit derivative indices in new markets in the New Year. Regions of interest include Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, said Stephan Flagel, managing director and head of indices in London, adding it is too early to say which will come first. "We are working with dealers to identify new markets, and hoping we will come up with something and launch towards the end of the first quarter or early second...We’re just waiting to see how the market develops."
  • "Fees are way up... I mean, risk is being more appropriately priced"
  • The G20 summit in Washington in mid-November was generally seen as underwhelming – largely as a result of the political leadership vacuum caused by President Bush’s lame-duck presidency. However, there was one historic achievement: emerging market countries such as Brazil were invited to play a larger role in determining the course of the global economy.
  • Bernanke is walking a fine line between deflation and inflation. For the moment deflation is more to be feared, so his actions are all about stimulating inflation, including printing money.
  • "The issue has gone unanswered for years. What is going on is simple stealing. We don’t need new laws against this, we already have them. If the Fed won’t step in, then the Department of Justice has to"
  • After years of rapid expansion, Brazil’s banks are facing up to the challenges of tighter liquidity and slowing economic growth. But the government’s proactive approach is helping to reassure investors and observers about the banks’ stability and solvency while the banking system’s focus on its domestic market has spared it much of the contagion from dodgy assets now blighting many of its international counterparts.
  • Even though it is now under pressure from the global financial crisis, Brazil can look back on 2008 as a relatively good year, with growth close to target, and look forward from a position of strength, sustained by high forex reserves and a sound policy environment. Laurence Neville reports.
  • Among the delegates at the 2008 Felaban conference in Panama City were two senior members of the fixed-income department at Santander, named best bank in Euromoney’s 2008 Awards for Excellence in July. The Spanish bank sent Dan Vallimarescu (head of DCM) and Erik Deiden (senior VP) to the conference but unfortunately managed to book their trip so late that the best hotels available were not exactly Panama’s finest.
  • A tumbling blade has to land some time. Hank Paulson may have decided against trying to stop it directly but John Paulson is apparently back buying mortgage-backed securities. Louise Bowman speaks to other credit investors who believe there is money to be made from this shattered market.