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Japan’s Resona asks for government bailout
Resona Holdings, Japan’s fifth largest banking group created by the merger of Asahi and Daiwa, has asked the Japanese government for an emergency injection of public funds, following a sharp plunge in...
Most of the trading in Japan’s credit default swaps market centred around names with outstanding convertible bonds in quiet trading this week.
International rating agency Moody’s Investors Service said today it rated a record ¥3.02 trillion ($25 billion) of collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) in the first quarter of the year. That compares...
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Japanese banks get a breather but airlines continue to dip
The cost of credit protection on Japanese banks were off their lows, as the regulator eased earlier concerns that it may nationalise ailing banks. Meanwhile, the cost of protection on airlines continued to skyrocket as the war in Iraq and the spreading...
Japanese airlines go against credit market’s tightening trend
Technical factors continued to keep Japan’s credit default swaps on a tightening trend this week, except for airlines for which the cost of protection continued to rise on concern that the war in Iraq and Japan’s weak economy will seriously damage...
Japan’s SMBC to launch ¥1 trillion balance sheet synthetic CLO
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is preparing to launch its second balance sheet synthetic collateralised loan obligation on March 24, ahead of the fiscal year end, with a ¥1 trillion ($8.35 billion) transaction.
Japanese credit default swaps market turns defensive
Japan’s credit default swaps market continued to ignore the threat of war in Iraq, diplomatic tensions with North Korea and weak stock markets, but the mood in Tokyo was nevertheless bearish, and market participants were more keen to buy protection...
Japan credit default swaps seen at the end of tightening trend
Japanese credit default swaps have reached the end of their tightening trend, and market participants are now waiting for direction, dealers said. But with the fiscal year-end approaching, they predict that participants are likely to stay on the sidelines...
Sumitomo capital raising sparks Japanese bank spread widening
Japanese bank credit protection spreads widened this week as a capital-raising exercise by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) sparked renewed fears that banks were trying to shore-up capital reserves ahead of their year-end results.
Japan credit default swaps brush off international events
Credit default swap spreads in Japan tightened across the board this week, brushing off heightened diplomatic tensions with North Korea and the threat of war in Iraq, as technical factors continued to support the Japanese market, dealers said.
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