Bonuses for Wall Street’s top executives should be tied to a basket of the firm’s securities, including bonds and stocks, to align managers with all stakeholders and discourage excess leverage and risk, Harvard Law School professor Lucian Bebchuk said. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Europe’s high-yield bond market — for issuers with a poor credit rating — has virtually been shut for the last six weeks because of the continent’s debt crisis, posing a headache for those who are facing debt maturities as early as next year. [Read the rest of this entry...]
With July – the month that bond maturities are expected to peak – fast approaching, some fixed rate bond providers have upped their game in the competition through increased rates, offering higher returns for savers. [Read the rest of this entry...]
First, there’s one thing about the bond market that you need to know. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Qatar Islamic Bank SAQ, the Gulf state’s biggest bank complying with Muslim banking rules, bought 1.25 billion riyals ($344 million) of Islamic bonds offered by the government. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Brian Coulton, the agency’s head of sovereign ratings, said German members of the ECB appeared to be blocking the sort of muscular intervention in southern European bond markets needed to restore the shattered confidence of investors. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Foreigners resumed their substantial purchases of Canadian securities in April, increasing their holdings by C$12.4 billion ($12.0 billion), Statistics Canada said on Friday. [Read the rest of this entry...]
HSBC Holdings Plc’s $3.4 billion issue of undated 8 percent notes marks the first sale of debt securities designed to qualify as capital under current and proposed bank regulations. [Read the rest of this entry...]
European stock markets closed firmer but off their highs on Thursday after weaker-than-expected US data took the gloss off early gains made on a successful Spanish government bond sale, dealers said. [Read the rest of this entry...]
BP Plc, battling to plug a gushing oil well under the Gulf of Mexico, is seeking to raise up to $7 billion in loans from seven banks, banking sources told Thomson Reuters LPC on Friday. [Read the rest of this entry...]
