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European Financial CDS - Swaps mostly tightened among European banks last week. The median change was -8 bps. Greek banks led the move with tightening between -240 bps and -991 bps as further progress was made with the country's recovery plan; Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday approved the bailout extension that Eurozone finance ministers had agreed on the week before.
Sovereign CDS – Sovereign swaps mostly tightened over last week. Portuguese sovereign swaps tightened by -19.8% (-33 bps to 135 ) and Italian sovereign swaps widened by 15 bps to 110. Investors' sentiment was boosted by positive progress in Greece with Germany approving the four-month bailout extension.
Euribor-OIS Spread – The Euribor-OIS spread (the difference between the euro interbank lending rate and overnight indexed swaps) measures bank counterparty risk in the Eurozone. The OIS is analogous to the effective Fed Funds rate in the United States. Banks lending at the OIS do not swap principal, so counterparty risk in the OIS is minimal. By contrast, the Euribor rate is the rate offered for unsecured interbank lending. Thus, the spread between the two isolates counterparty risk. The Euribor-OIS spread widened by 1 bps to 11 bps.
Matthew Hedrick
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Ben Ryan
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