Monetary policy
Talking point - Investment-grade bond covenants
Following the release of a white paper by a group of 50 buy-siders proposing an overhaul of existing covenants, we ask market participants whether investment-grade bond covenants need improving
Thirsting for water stocks
Underlyings
Market snapshot
Market Analysis
A return to simplicity
Equity derivatives
Biting the bullet
Emerging-market loans
Mercurial talents
Led by oil traders Marco Dunand and Daniel Jaeggi, Mercuria Energy Group's turnover has grown fivefold in only three years. Roderick Bruce talks to Dunand, Mercuria's head of global trading, about the company's rapid expansion and its plans for 2008 and…
The year ahead
From widespread house price falls and increases in foreclosures, to funding innovations and alterations in regulation, 2008 will be a year of unprecedented change and adjustment for mortgage banks. Mortgage Risk, together with a select panel of leading…
A platform for success
Practitioner profile
Glancing back, looking forward
Outlook 2008
Heating up
Structured Products
A long way to go
Longevity
The future arrives for renewables
The emerging market in renewable energy futures is expected to lower the cost of financing renewables and smooth out the volatility often encountered when running intermittent renewable resources, such as wind and solar. Catherine Lacoursière investigates
A rising market?
Australian inflation
Taking cover from falling stocks
Pre-IPO trading
A long way to go
Longevity
Banking on a fall
Rates
The subprime shake-down
The subprime mortgage market - the root of all the summer's troubles - may well be in turmoil but nobody is suggesting it is about to disappear as a source of financing for securitisations. The question is, what part will it play when the dust finally…
Hedge funds: The bargain hunters
There are rich pickings to be had amongst the ruins of the summer's ravaged credit markets: hedge funds that survived the crisis are now putting together funds to invest in the wide availability of cheap securities. Nikki Marmery meets the executives at…
Market Graphic - Fed rate cuts
Stephen Gallagher, chief US economist at Societe Generale, looks at whether Fed rate cuts will succeed in calming the troubled waters of the US economy
Heating up
Structured products
Micro-finance, macro gains
Micro-Finance
Product price fighters
Pensions
A narrowing gulf
Basel II
Forgotten, but not gone
Inflation