Rabu, 03 Agustus 2011

Top Interest Rate Headlines 08-03-11: Treasury Resumes SLGS Sales

Treasury Resumes SLGS Sales
By Lynn Hume, The Bond Buyer
The Treasury Department resumed sales of state and local government series securities Tuesday night after President Obama signed legislation to increase the federal debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion.
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Riley Of Fitch Ratings Says U.S. AAA Rating Not `Secure' Over Medium Term [Video]
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Deutsche Bank Said Likely to Wait Until Next Year to Name Jain’s Successor

By Aaron Kirchfeld, Brett Foley and Jacqueline Simmons, Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Germany’s biggest bank, will probably wait until next year to name a successor to Anshu Jain at the helm of the corporate and investment bank, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Berlusconi Vows Not to Resign
By RACHEL DONADIO, The New York Times
As markets continued to hammer Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday rebutted calls for his resignation, saying Italy’s economic fundamentals were strong and pledging that his government was “up to the task” of fostering economic growth.
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Plunging Mortgage Rates Won't Juice Housing
By: Diana Olick, CNBC
The one positive in all the uncertainty surrounding the nation's debt  was a plunge in Treasury yields, which in turn sent mortgage rates to record lows.
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UK Official holdings of international reserves July 2011 - HM Treasury
Link to PDF
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Treasuries: 'It's pretty grim'
CNN Money
It's ugly out there. Treasury prices have spiked -- then spiked some more, pushing the 10-year Treasury yield down to a nine-month low of 2.57% Tuesday.
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MF Global Plans Bond Sale With Coupon Tied to Corzine’s Role
By Tim Catts and Matthew Leising, Bloomberg
MF Global Holdings Ltd. plans to sell bonds with an interest rate that will rise if Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Corzine receives a federal appointment from the U.S. president.
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Five banks sign up to new EuroCCP service

By Philip Stafford, Financial Times
Five of Europe’s largest trading banks have agreed to use EuroCCP, the European clearing house, amid signs that a new system designed to give traders more choice over where their trades are to be cleared is developing early momentum.
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A Derivatives-Trading Pioneer Looks to Launch New Venture
By KATY BURNE And JACOB BUNGE, Dow Jones
Sunil Hirani, a pioneer in the electronic trading of credit derivatives, is heading a new venture that aims to support the shift of interest-rate swap business onto the screen from the telephone, according to people familiar with the situation. Mr. Hirani, 43 years old, is returning to an entrepreneurial role in the derivatives sector after last year leaving Creditex, the dealer-to-dealer credit-default-swap broker he co-founded and later sold to IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
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IMF Statement On U.S. Agreement To Raise Debt Ceiling
Press Release
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SIFMA Statement On Passage Of Debt Ceiling Agreement
Press Release
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CME Globex Enhancements for Interest Rate Products
Press Release
Effective Sunday, August 7, 2011 (trade date August 8), CME Globex enhancements to our CBOT interest rate products will take place. Enhancements to our CME products will take place on Sunday, August 21 (trade date August 22).
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Auerbach Grayson Launches Emerging And Frontier Market Fixed-Income Platform

Press Release
NEW YORK - Auerbach Grayson & Company LLP, a New York-based brokerage firm that specializes in providing global trade execution and locally-generated research to US institutional investors, has launched a global fixed income and sales trading platform for frontier and emerging markets.
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N Rock expects to make profit by 2012
By Adam Jones, Financial Times
Any buyer of Northern Rock would have to endure losses until the second half of next year, the state-owned savings and mortgage bank said on Wednesday.
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Ex-UBS banker charged in tax evasion
Bloomberg News
A former UBS AG banker was indicted on a charge of conspiring to help wealthy Americans evade taxes by hiding accounts in a smaller Swiss regional bank.
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Morgan Stanley fills senior role in US FIG team
Richard Partington, Financial News
Morgan Stanley has appointed a new head of its banks team within its financial institutions group in North America, a post that has been vacant since the previous head, John Esposito, left the role more than 18 months ago.
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U.S. Swaps Regulators to Seek Comment on Overseas Reach
By Silla Brush, Bloomberg
U.S. financial regulators are planning to seek comment on when Dodd-Frank Act rules for the $601 trillion swaps market apply to international transactions or firms conducting business overseas.
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