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Credit Markets Update: telecom spreads rally in strong US equity market

This week telecoms continued their rally on the back of a strong US equity market, with spreads tightening by up to 10 basis points. But telecom equipment makers were punished by weak results from Nokia, and saw credit default swaps widen.

For telecom operators, the cost of five-year protection came in with spreads 10bp tighter across the board. “We are seeing a general tightening trend due to higher levels of optimism, and profit announcements from blue chips,” said Brett Golledge, head of corporate credit trading at Commerzbank.

Ford released better than anticipated results on Wednesday. Despite an $800 million first-quarter net

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