Markit to start trading emerging market sovereign credit risk index

The Markit iTraxx SovX CEEMEA (Central and East European, Middle East and Africa) index will start trading on January 20. The index is part of the Markit iTraxx SovX family of sovereign credit default swap indexes.

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The index will track investor perception of emerging market sovereign credit risk and provide market participants with a standardised tool to hedge or gain exposure to the risk of 15 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The 15 countries represented in the index have a combined total outstanding credit default swaps (CDS) notional of $530 billion. The Markit iTraxx SovX CEEMEA is a basket of 15 sovereign CDS of Turkey; Russia; Hungary; South Africa; Kazakhstan; Poland

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