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Using securities lending data to assess the ECB’s corporate bond purchases

18 November 2016Credit, MarketsNick Dunbar

ECB president Mario Draghi says that corporate bond purchases are a success, but is the effect causation or correlation? Using securities lending data from central banks allows the hypothesis to be tested.

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Visualising the high yield swoon

18 August 2016Credit, MarketsHigh yield - US, high yield bonds, Markit iBoxx $ Liquid High Yield index, oil & gas, regulationNick Dunbar

Did junk bond investors overreact?

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Visualising the high yield swoon

9 June 2016Credit, MarketsHigh yield - US, high yield bonds, oil & gas, regulationNick Dunbar

Were regulatory warnings about bond market herding borne out in the high yield sell off and rebound?

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High yield’s retrenchment

21 December 2015Credit, MarketsCitigroup, commodity risk, credit, credit derivatives, ETFs, High yield - US, lending, Markit iBoxx $ Liquid High Yield indexNick Dunbar

There have been plenty of words written about the high-yield corporate bond market in the last week, but sometimes a chart expresses things better than words.

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