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Unusual total active option classes on open include: Steel Dynamics (STLD), International Game (IGT), JPMorgan (JPM), UnitedHealth (UNH), Goldman Sachs (GS), NVIDIA (NVDA), iShares High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG), [...]

Unusual total active option classes on open include: PepsiCo (PEP), International Paper (IP), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), Gap (GPS), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD), Industrial Sector SPDR ETF (XLI), [...]

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.75%. The Committee voted unanimously to maintain the stock of sterling non-financial investment-grade corporate bond purchases, [...]

Unusual total active option classes on open include: TRI Pointe (TPH), Altaba Inc (AABA), General Mills (GIS), Adobe (ADBE), iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), [...]

Byline: Bruce Kelly A junk bond rating has been slapped on the $1.8 billion in debt used to finance the acquisition of Advisor Group. In a report issued last month, [...]

For the week, overall flows were very light in dollar volume terms according to data from ETF.com. Redemptions bested Creations by a factor of 1.16 to 1. On the redemptions [...]

Byline: Ari I. Weinberg Fixed-income exchange-traded funds are often criticized for bestowing unearned liquidity and price upon their underlying holdings, particularly in investment-grade and high-yield corporate debt. But with U.S.-listed [...]

Size 4way in JNK Junk Bond ETF appears to adjust put postion. Spread printed on the CBOE just after 1:30PM ET, with a trader apparently selling 30K Sep 95/101 put [...]

At-the-money put Buyer in iShares High Yield Corporate Bond ETF. Initiator bought 12000 Sep 20th 84 Puts for 43.00c tied to $86.18 as shares traded near $86.08. Premium total is [...]

For the week ETF flows among the top twenty funds were skewed heavily to the redemptions side by a factor of more than 1.7 to 1 per data from ETF.com. [...]

Put buyer in Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF. Initiator paid 80c for 22K Dec 120 puts, outright, this morning as shares traded $123.53. Block size is nearly twice the average [...]

For the week fund flows in the top ten creations and redemptions were skewed heavily to the creations side by a factor of over 2.5 to 1, per data from [...]

According to PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said KYC norms would be eased for foreign portfolio investors and proposed allowing the listing of social enterprises and voluntary organisations [...]

Fund flows for the week were dominated by Russell funds as the index reconstitution process came to its conclusion. For this week even though those funds were volume-dominant on the [...]

New option listings for June 28th include iShares Emerging Markets Corporate Bond ETF (CEMB), Gossamer Bio Inc (GOSS), iShares International High Yield Bond ETF (HYXU), iShares Genomics Immunology and Healthcare [...]

The week saw a rather extreme skew to creations by a factor of over 3 to 1 for the top twenty ETFs, per data from ETF.com. On the creations side [...]

Event In mid-June, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) issued US$2.5bn worth of new sovereign bonds. Some of the funds raised will be used to buy back existing debt, [...]

There was little in the way of skew between creations and redemptions this week, with the flow factor tipping only slightly to redemptions per data from ETF.com. On the redemptions [...]

For the holiday-shortened week ETF fund flows were heavy and skewed sharply to redemptions by a factor of nearly 3 to 1, per data from ETF.com. On the redemptions side [...]

(Bloomberg Opinion)-WeWork Cos. doesn't seem to quite be working for junk-bond investors. For a moment earlier this month, it looked as if its high-yield debt issued 13 months ago was [...]

MarketAxess Holdings reported the development of Live Markets, a live order book trading model for the institutional fixed income markets. According to a media release, Live Markets will create a [...]

$1.2M put stupid sale in iShares High Yield Corporate Bond ETF. Initiator sold the June 83/Aug 81 put stupid on the Amex for 48c as the underlying traded $86.05. August [...]

ETF fund flows were lighter than they have been in recent weeks, which is not atypical during earnings season. Creations bested redemptions by a factor of 1.3 to 1 per [...]

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.75%. The Committee voted unanimously to maintain the stock of sterling non-financial investment-grade corporate bond purchases, [...]

U.S. corporate bond update: Saudi Aramco kicks off its much awaited debut 6-pronged offering. This includes a 3-year fixed/FRN, along with 5-, 10-, 20-, and 30-year tranches. For guidance on [...]

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.75%. The Committee voted unanimously to maintain the stock of sterling non-financial investment-grade corporate bond purchases, [...]

Byline: Sumit Sharma Non-bank finance companies (NBFCs), which along with housing finance companies (HFCs) faced a liquidity shortage through the second half of last year, can now breathe easy as [...]

U.S. corporate bond update: Altria launched its $11.5 B 7-part offering, and reports are the book is over $50 B. The sale includes a $1 B 3-year around +130 bps, [...]

U.S. high yield corporate bond ETFs remain under pressure with the iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF slightly lower near 83.425, in the middle of its 83.36-83.48 session range, [...]

Why corporate bonds are usually a bad investment in an ageing business cycleIN THE 1970s the junk-bond market was a dark underworld. It was the home of 'fallen angels', the [...]