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Iran’s national budget for 2010/2011 will be less reliant on oil revenues but will still reveal "good news" on oil production of 20% enriched fuel in February this year, says Iranian president Mahmoud...
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Unrated bonds: Borrowers go it alone
A large number of European borrowers are eschewing the rating process and issuing unrated bonds. Credit investigates whether this signifies a permanent shift in issuer mentality or is simply a cyclical factor that will die out when the supply/demand dynamic...
S&P introduces eurozone government bond index
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has launched a eurozone government bond index which will measure the performance of the developed European Union government bond market. The index is made up of bonds issued by all those countries within the eurozone which are...
Taiwanese get access to US Treasuries onshore
London-based interdealer broker Icap has teamed up with GreTai Securities Markets, a Taiwanese government-designated over-the-counter securities market organisation, to offer onshore US government bond trading in Taiwan. This is the first time GreTai...
Franklin Templeton adds bond researcher
Franklin Templeton Investments has named Sonal Desai as director of research for the firm’s international bond unit. Desai will be based in San Mateo, California and report to Michael Hasenstab, senior vice-president. Desai was most recently with the...
FSA warns debt market on insider dealing
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) on Wednesday censured two traders for insider dealing and warned it would take stronger action in future against this type of market abuse. Darren Morton, director, and Christopher Parry, vice-president, at Dresdner...
Aviva hires credit portfolio manager
Aviva Investors has hired ex-Henderson Global Investors fund manager Paul Whelan as a credit portfolio manager. Whelan, who starts today (October 5), will be based in London and reports to Stephen Lee, head of Aviva’s credit portfolio focus group. ...
California slides towards credit default as budget deficit hits record...
Emerging markets investors are used to assessing the creditworthiness of volatile third-world regimes and tin-pot dictatorships. But it is a mark of the severity of the global recession that the formerly rock-solid world of municipal securities from states...
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