{"id":10113,"date":"2009-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"yen-swap-spreads-near-record-as-hedge-funds-stay-away-rbs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/yen-swap-spreads-near-record-as-hedge-funds-stay-away-rbs-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Yen Swap Spreads Near Record as Hedge Funds Stay Away, RBS Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Japan&rsquo;s attempts to end financial turmoil failed to lure hedge funds back to its swap markets, leaving premiums paid by domestic borrowers near a record, RBS Securities Japan Ltd. said. <\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds, which lost more than $400 billion through withdrawals and market losses since June, pulled out of Japan&rsquo;s swap markets after the failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. led to a seizure in global credit, said <a href=\"http:\/\/search.bloomberg.com\/search?q=Tatsuo+Ichikawa&#038;site=wnews&#038;client=wnews&#038;proxystylesheet=wnews&#038;output=xml_no_dtd&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;filter=p&#038;getfields=wnnis&#038;sort=date:D:S:d1\">Tatsuo Ichikawa<\/a>, a senior strategist at RBS in Tokyo. Japan&rsquo;s banks were charged record premiums this month to swap London borrowing rates for those set in Tokyo as a slumping economy exacerbated concern about the health of the nation&rsquo;s companies. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601009&#038;sid=aIFdJWFXCbVE&#038;refer=bond\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Japan&rsquo;s attempts to end financial turmoil failed to lure hedge funds back to its swap markets, leaving premiums paid by domestic borrowers near a record, RBS Securities Japan Ltd. said. Hedge funds, which lost more than $400 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4306,64,4315,2054,7898,2200,9112,4718,96,1517,3060,7715,3139,6745,173,9111,2074,4292],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-banks","tag-bloomberg","tag-borrowers","tag-failure","tag-financial-turmoil","tag-global-credit","tag-japan-ltd","tag-lehman-brothers","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings-inc","tag-market-losses","tag-premiums","tag-rbs","tag-seizure","tag-strategist","tag-swap-markets","tag-tokyo-japan","tag-withdrawals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}