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reuters.com - 8/6/2009
Moody's cuts global junk default peak forecasts | Markets | Bonds News
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LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service has sharply lowered its peak default rate forecasts for speculative-grade companies thanks to a sharp narrowing in spreads and a re-opening of the high-yield bond market. The rating agency no longer expects the default rate to be worse in ...
blogs.wsj.com - 8/5/2009
More Homeowners ‘Upside Down’ on Mortgages - Developments
— blogs.wsj.com — Home price declines may be luring more home buyers back to the market, but they’re also leaving... more American homeowners with negative equity. Some 24% of owner-occupied homes had mortgage debt that exceeded the values of those homes at the end of ... (more) More Homeowners ‘Upside Down’ on Mortgages - ...

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Market and Credit Indicators
calculatedriskblog.com - 8/4/2009
Market and Credit Indicators
— calculatedriskblog.com — The S&P; 500 closed about 1000 for the first time since last November. Click on graph for... larger image in new window. The first graph shows the S&P; 500 since 1990. The dashed line is the closing price today. The S&P; 500 is up 48.2% from the ... (more) Market and Credit Indicators

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Thursday links: trend turnaround
Abnormal Returns — ... before they invest?  (Daily Options Report) Put buyers are on strike.  (VIX and More) Are we facing a replay of the commodity spike of 2008?  (FT Alphaville) Do fixed income ETFs work as advertised?  (IndexUniverse, ibid) Moody’s forecasts a lower peak in junk bond defaults.  (Reuters) Traders should always be on the lookout for new trading ...

Twenty Notes on Current Risks in the Markets
The Aleph Blog — ... 12)  So things are looking better with junk bond defaults.  Perhaps it was an overestimate, or that it would not all come in 2009.  We will see. ...

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