18 December 2018 Sam Pierson
Short interest and momentum factors deliver alpha
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13 December 2018
With the first three waves of the initial margin requirements for non–cleared derivatives instruments complete, the focus has moved on to the...
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11 December 2018
Firms need to optimise their internal processes and implement new regulation required processes if they are to reduce the operational risk of...
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05 December 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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05 December 2018
We review factor performance in November 2018.
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29 November 2018 Sam Pierson
Peak borrow availability at minimum cost
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27 November 2018 Sam Pierson
ETF lending revenue to beat 2017 total, with December still ahead
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26 November 2018
IHS Markit, as an Associate Sponsor of RiskMinds International 2018, would like to invite you to meet our team of risk analytics experts during...
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20 November 2018 Chris Fenske
Parsed bond quotes patterns can provide a real-time indicator of changes in bond market liquidity
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13 November 2018 Chris Fenske
Data shows that 10yr AAA municipal bond yields rose slower than benchmark government bonds when rates sold off in the US.
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08 November 2018 Sam Pierson
What a difference a decade makes
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08 November 2018 Gavan Nolan
Flagship UK credits are widening amid Brexit uncertainty
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07 November 2018 Sam Pierson
Best month of the year for short interest factors
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07 November 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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07 November 2018
We review factor performance in October 2018.
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06 November 2018 Jonathan Chatelain
For FY18, despite red flags that can forewarn a dividend cut, we forecast Casino to pay a flat dividend of €3.12 per share, to be paid in two...
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05 November 2018 Rory McSwiggan
After three consecutive quarters of increasing totals and record highs, trade volumes for Q3 seem to have ebbed slightly. Total sales for Q3...
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31 October 2018
We review the Oil and Gas Model performance as IHS Markit raised its oil price outlook for 4Q 2018 while geopolitical events lay the groundwork...
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29 October 2018 Sam Pierson
Most shorted ahead of earnings
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29 October 2018 Gil Shefi
The idiomatic phrase “Garbage In, Garbage Out” still rings true 60 years after it was first coined. It has expanded from the world of computer...
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16 October 2018
This year, we are focused on 'Agility in post-trade' and looking at how being agile as an organisation is a key differentiator for our clients...
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12 October 2018 Gavan Nolan
The recent credit event on Astaldi showed that not all bankruptcies are the same
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08 October 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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05 October 2018
We review factor performance in September 2018.
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05 October 2018 Gavan Nolan
Astaldi has filed for creditor protection, but will be that enough to trigger a credit event
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28 September 2018 Sam Pierson
The most expensive to borrow US equities have delivered short alpha in September, but demand is still down
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20 September 2018
We review the Bank & Thrift Model II performance 10 years after the Lehman bankruptcy.
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17 September 2018
We review the Australian economic landscape and recent quantitative model and factor performance within the Research Signals Global Factor Library....
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14 September 2018 Sam Pierson
Rally sees shorts get more selective
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14 September 2018 Gavan Nolan
Turkey's credit spreads have rallied after the central bank hiked rates
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11 September 2018
Financial markets are volatile and unpredictable, but do they display certain patterns that could be helpful in risk management and portfolio...
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10 September 2018 Stuart Nield, Ph.D.
Despite being introduced over six years ago, there is still no market consensus on how to calculate the Funding Valuation Adjustment or FVA....
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06 September 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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06 September 2018
We review factor performance in August 2018.
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05 September 2018
IHS Markit's acquisition of Ipreo brings together businesses with strong growth potential in alternative assets and solutions for asset managers....
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03 September 2018 Sam Pierson
Following Tesco, shorts have covered positions in Ocado, Sainsbury & Wm Morrison
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29 August 2018 Sam Pierson
Credit shorts advance ahead of earnings
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27 August 2018 Julien Rey
On 26th July, Fannie Mae issued a $6 billion floating-rate senior unsecured note based on SOFR. This was the first-ever issuance of a SOFR security....
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24 August 2018 Gavan Nolan
Is the credit cycle at a late stage? If so, investment firms should look to use CDS and derived datasets
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23 August 2018
We review the economic landscape of China and recent quantitative factor and model performance within the China A-shares universe of the Research...
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23 August 2018 Sam Pierson
Strong correlation between inflation sensitivity and US equity returns in August
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23 August 2018
The closure of the Istanbul stock exchange for the Eid holiday during the week of August 20th has created challenges for investors looking to...
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17 August 2018 Gavan Nolan
Bank CDS spreads have felt the impact from Turkey, but perhaps Italy is a bigger problem - particularly for domestic banks
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16 August 2018 Sam Pierson
Elon says Tesla is 'most shorted stock in the history of the stock market' - but is it?
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14 August 2018 Sam Pierson
Hedging Turkey exposure
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10 August 2018 Gavan Nolan
Emerging markets are in the spotlight and CDS liquidity remains strong
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09 August 2018 Sam Pierson
Equity and credit bears stick with their winners
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07 August 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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07 August 2018
We review factor performance in July 2018.
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06 August 2018 Kirston Winters David Cook Brie Lam
OTC derivatives market participants are receiving a growing number of requests from their dealers to novate swaps from a one entity to another...
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30 July 2018 Sam Pierson
Recently offered CDS contracts reflect credit concerns
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26 July 2018 Sam Pierson
Securities Finance Q2 Review
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24 July 2018 Sam Pierson
Most shorted global equities ahead of earnings
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18 July 2018 Julien Rey
Since the last financial crisis in 2007, regulators and financial market participants have questioned the reliability and robustness of benchmark...
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16 July 2018
Responsible Officers ("RO") have long known this day of reckoning was coming
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13 July 2018 Francis Land
In part two of our blog on Research Payments under MiFID II, Francis Land highlights one potential unintended consequence of the new rules.
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10 July 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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10 July 2018 Sam Pierson
European equity lending revenue is pointing higher
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06 July 2018
We review factor performance in June 2018.
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06 July 2018 Francis Land
Under MiFID II’s research payment rules, the days of ‘No such thing as a free lunch’ should be a thing of the past. However, there have been...
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29 June 2018 Sam Pierson
EM equity short balances peaked at $110bn on June 8th
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28 June 2018
Data science is not new. But the availability of new tools and technologies is changing the role of the data scientist, enabling them to produce...
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28 June 2018
The early promise of blockchain is beginning to bear fruit as financial services firms invest in DLT projects to reduce risk and cost.
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28 June 2018
Managing the huge amounts of data now available to the financial sector is a challenge that is being met by integrating new tools and methods...
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26 June 2018 Sam Pierson
IG credit short balance hits post-crisis peak in June
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19 June 2018 Pierre Khemdoudi
Overview of SFTR initiative
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15 June 2018
An update to our Social Media factor suite performance since the factors went live four years ago.
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15 June 2018 Sam Pierson
Crowded US equity shorts outperform
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13 June 2018 Jonathan Chatelain
The recovery in the oil price, stronger free cash flow generation and improved balance sheet are expected to boost oil payouts by 7%
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08 June 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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07 June 2018
We review factor performance in May 2018.
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07 June 2018 Gil Shefi
The long-awaited Basel Committee Consultative Document on the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) minimal capital requirements for...
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07 June 2018 Chong Jun Wong
The inclusion of Temasek Holdings into the NIRC framework in 2015 has not prompted Temasek-linked companies (TLCs) to amend their payout pattern...
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01 June 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Securitized Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized market.
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31 May 2018 Gavan Nolan
Investors should take heed of the CDS ISDA basis when monitoring redenomination risk
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25 May 2018 Sam Pierson
Short balances in Marijuana stocks hit $2.1bn, highest on record
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25 May 2018 Sam Pierson
Q2 on pace for largest post-Brexit FTSE 250 short covering
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22 May 2018 Sam Pierson
Marijuana related stocks: Valuation and short demand
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17 May 2018 Sam Pierson
After Macy’s kicked off retail earnings with a strong result, see how short sellers are positioned for JCP earnings today.
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15 May 2018 Sam Pierson
US Gaming Stocks Advance on Supreme Court Decision
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14 May 2018 Derek Fang
Aggregate dividends from Chinese automotive companies are expected to increase to HKD 16.2bn by 2020, up 76% from 2017
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11 May 2018 Sam Pierson
IHS Markit Securities Finance Q1 Review
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11 May 2018 Adam Mauro
The IHS Markit Weekly Securitized Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized market.
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08 May 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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07 May 2018 Sam Pierson
Short sellers of equities and corporate bonds are navigating a challenging Q1 earnings season
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04 May 2018
We review factor performance in April 2018.
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04 May 2018
IHS Markit Weekly Securitized Snapshot – May 5, 2018
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01 May 2018 Vaughan Harding
Funding valuation adjustment, or FVA, has long been the subject of heated debate within the industry. Intended to ensure banks account properly...
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27 April 2018
In a keynote interview with Ulku Rowe of Google Cloud Lance discusses the evolving alternative data market.
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27 April 2018 Adam Mauro
IHS Markit Weekly Securitized Snapshot – April 27, 2018
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26 April 2018 Sam Pierson
Mixed results for short sellers as earnings season rolls on
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24 April 2018 Dan Huscher
In the fixed income markets, judging liquidity can be a complex issue.
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24 April 2018 Gavan Nolan
Credit indices are influenced by option volumes, a technical factor that can’t be ignored
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20 April 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Securitized Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized market.
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20 April 2018
Over the last two years, 22 central securities depositories in 20 markets have migrated to TARGET2-Securities (T2S). Like it or not, the platform...
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18 April 2018 Tom Matheson
Dividends from US blue-chips continue to surge in Q2, forecast up $2.5bn
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13 April 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Securitized Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized market.
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10 April 2018 John Jannes
As the MiFID II RTS 28 report filing deadline looms, find out how to meet your reporting obligations by acting now.
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09 April 2018 Sam Pierson
First quarterly decline in US Equity ETF balances since 2016
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06 April 2018
Full year 2017 review of ETP trade volumes
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05 April 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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05 April 2018 Paul Jones
As the fog lifts on the FRTB framework following the publication of the BCBS’ consultation paper and firms buckle down to meet the June 2018...
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05 April 2018 Chris Williamson
Bad weather curbed business activity growth in March, leading to the weakest expansions of output and new orders for 20 months.
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04 April 2018
We review factor performance in March 2018.
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01 April 2018
One of the most important counterparty credit risk measures is the credit valuation adjustment (CVA), defined as the present value of the potential...
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29 March 2018 Dan Huscher
The notion of regulating liquidity risk management is no longer a question of if, but when and how.
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26 March 2018 Sam Pierson
Tesla bonds and equities have attracted short sellers
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21 March 2018 Bethany Baer
Brokerages are trying to keep millennials and Gen Xers engaged to retain their assets
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19 March 2018 Chong Jun Wong
Companies in the FTSE Straits Times Index are expected to return SGD 20.9bn in dividends to shareholders this year.
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19 March 2018 Francis Land
Some thoughts on the future of Commission Sharing Arrangements in a MiFID II world.
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19 March 2018 Gavan Nolan
MREL and TLAC requirements will soon come into force in Europe. The CDS world will have to adapt to the shifting landscape in cash.
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16 March 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized mortgage market.
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14 March 2018 Sam Pierson
Short demand for EU equities has continued to increase in early 2018.
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14 March 2018 Paul Jones
With banks’ trading operations already struggling to maintain profitability under high capital requirements from Basel III, firms are looking...
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09 March 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized mortgage market.
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09 March 2018 Carlos Garcia-Lastra Marques
Shares have plunged by 35% from their peak in June 2017, pushing the forward dividend yield to its highest level in 10 years.
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08 March 2018 Sam Pierson
Short sellers have targeted gun manufacturers and retailers.
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07 March 2018
We review factor performance in February 2018.
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07 March 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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05 March 2018 Chris Fenske
Chris Fenske highlights the value of “quantamental” investing
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02 March 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized mortgage market.
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02 March 2018
We have partnered with BitSight Technologies to introduce factors that quantify cybersecurity risks to enhance stock and portfolio risk management....
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01 March 2018
The Basel III/IV framework contains a number of new and updated measures to increase bank liquidity, decrease bank leverage, and to strengthen...
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26 February 2018 Bill Chung
The wrong way risk modelling of valuation adjustments is a challenging problem. We revisit WWR modelling by using information from the credit...
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26 February 2018 Kirston Winters Brie Lam
With Systematic Internaliser (SI) obligations having taken on effect on 3 Jan 2018, most large dealers have already or are weighing the pros...
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23 February 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitised mortgage market.
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21 February 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitised mortgage market.
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21 February 2018 Sam Pierson
We reveal how short sellers are positioning themselves in companies announcing earnings in the coming week
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16 February 2018 Tom Matheson
Past performance is no guide when it consists of trailing dividend payouts...
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16 February 2018 Gavan Nolan
Rates and equity markets are now embroiled in a tussle that has upset the pervasive complacency evident at the beginning of the year. Has this...
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15 February 2018
Aggregate dividends from the Chinese healthcare sector are estimated to grow by 61.5% over a three-year period to reach CNY 12.6bn in 2019.
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15 February 2018 Sam Pierson
While the FTSE 350 index down over 5% in 2018, short sellers have increased positions.
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13 February 2018 Sam Pierson
We reveal how short sellers are positioning themselves in companies announcing earnings in the coming week.
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12 February 2018 John Jannes
Understand how Article 27, RTS 27 and RTS 28 connect and next steps for complying with MiFID II’s best execution obligations...
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09 February 2018
We study the immediate impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the overall stock market, industries and at the stock level.
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09 February 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitised mortgage market.
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09 February 2018 Sam Pierson
With the sell-off pushing US equity returns into negative territory for 2018, highly shorted stocks have delivered alpha for investors.
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09 February 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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08 February 2018
We review factor performance in January 2018.
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07 February 2018 Marvyn Hoi Chong Jun Wong
Aggregate dividends from Nikkei 225, one of Japan’s benchmark indices, are on track to reach multi-year high of JPY 8.2tr in 2017.
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06 February 2018
Brexit’s laborious negotiations have not materially impacted the performance of the GBP HY
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02 February 2018 Jonathan Chatelain
Dividend outlook for French REITs...
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02 February 2018 Rory McSwiggan
Report showing the aggregated trading volumes of various loan trading participants.
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31 January 2018
Tax authorities in 49 jurisdictions have the initial Common Reporting Standard (CRS) reporting files from financial institutions.
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30 January 2018 Sam Pierson
Short sellers continue to publicly question South African equity valuations
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26 January 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitised mortgage market.
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23 January 2018
We review factor and model performance in 2017.
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22 January 2018 Sam Pierson
We reveal how short sellers are positioning themselves in companies announcing earnings in the coming week.
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19 January 2018 Kevin Soyer
Notwithstanding our positive outlook for UK dividends, we have identified £3.3bn that is at risk of being cut
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19 January 2018
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitised mortgage market.
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18 January 2018 Sam Pierson
Short sellers target jewelers as the so-called global retail apocalypse continues to play out.
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12 January 2018 Adam Mauro
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitized mortgage
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08 January 2018
Monthly style and specialty model performance report.
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05 January 2018 Madhu Ramu
As financial firms face a deluge of raw information on corporate actions, the risks and costs associated with acquiring and managing this data...
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05 January 2018 Adam Mauro
The IHS Markit Weekly Mortgage Snapshot provides a summary of the US securitised mortgage market. Much remains unchanged as 2017 comes to a close....
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05 January 2018
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04 January 2018
We review factor performance in December 2017.
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02 January 2018 Timothy Barello
"2017 was a strong year for the secondary loan trading market, according to the Q4 data snapshot report from IHS Markit. Quarterly report highlights..."...
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