BNP Paribas offers trade in credit

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BNP Paribas has launched the Hedge Bond Certificate, which is designed to profit from the difference between yields on corporate bonds and the cost of protecting the debt from default - called negative basis.

BNPP buys a bond from, say, a triple-A rated issuer and at the same time takes out a credit default swap (CDS) against that bond. The product takes advantage of a pricing market in which CDS can be cheaper to buy than a bond on the same credit - the investor gets the difference, after BNPP

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