Saturday, August 8, 2009

Credit Derivatives: Russia safer investment than California

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aypQny1ySDjU

“This would have been impossible to imagine a year ago,” said Dmitry Sentchoukov, an emerging-market credit strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in London. “Now it’s clear emerging economies are going to outperform the Group of Seven in growth, and that makes investors comfortable with the idea that developing countries can be priced richer than developed.”


"Credit-default swap prices from Turkey to Indonesia are falling as bonds rise amid signs that their economies are recovering faster than developed nations."
"Not by strength, by guile."