… are already, amplifying the effects of the credit crunch and probably making it too dangerous for … state, it must roll over €200bn of bonds this year in hostile markets. It will … ...

… Brothers and almost brought down Bear Stearns: bonds tied to mortgages. “Devastation,” said Howard Silverblatt, … waves through the financial system, causing the credit crunch to become a full-fledged dollar drought. Corporations … court. Defaults rose and yields in the bond market reached record levels. In earl...

… not raise resources abroad due to the credit crunch and begun tapping domestic banks for funds … requiring banks to park less in government bonds as a statutory pre-emption. … ...

… that of events characterized by panic, a credit crunch, slowing growth and falling stock markets. But … bubbles in the United Statesin technology stocks, bonds, real estate. As bad as it looks, … ...

… a shortened session. Yield spreads between emerging-market bonds and U.S. Treasuries, a key gauge of … showed considerable resilience to an incipient global credit crunch. Ecuador’s spreads ended the year at 4,732 … ...

… was insulated from Western problems. But the credit crunch finally put paid to that theory, as … the world bought into ’safe’ US government bonds. The Japanese yen has also shot up … ...

… ago, the discount was over 20%. High-yield bond funds have seen discounts narrow from 30%-35% … long as they did was that the credit crunch made it difficult for institutional investors to … ...

… in risky assets, which resulted in a credit crunch for the broader economy. In September it … Why? It depends on the type of bonds you are talking about. I would expect … on the Barclay’s (formerly Lehman) Aggregate Government Bond Index and the S&P 500 for the … ...

… to offset the impact of the global credit crunch and economic slowdown. The market expects more … will fall correspondingly. Pointing to surge in bond trading activity in fourth quarter of 2008, … especially the private sector players, are accumulating bonds driven by combination of factors. Private sector … ...

If the story of 2008 was the government’s unprecedented multi-trillion dollar bailouts of the financial sector, then the credit market was the story behind the story. ...