{"id":7162,"date":"2008-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"surging-credit-volatility-spurs-option-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/surging-credit-volatility-spurs-option-trading.html","title":{"rendered":"Surging credit volatility spurs option trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feedflare\">Reuters- Shocked by credit market turmoil, investors are now seeking protection on their credit protection. <\/p>\n<p>In the last few weeks, Europe&#8217;s credit indexes &#8212; widely traded ways of betting on the creditworthiness of the continent&#8217;s big companies &#8212; have registered some of their sharpest rises and falls since they began four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That has spurred demand for credit options &#8212; trades that hedge against further violent moves or, conversely, look to profit from them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;re seeing quite a bit of interest in trading options these days, and that&#8217;s mainly because of the high volatility,&quot; said Soren Willemann, credit strategist at Barclays Capital.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Credit options is still a fairly young market. In the past year or so, it has gained a lot of traction,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/237586108\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/237586108\/idUKNOA95080520080219\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- Shocked by credit market turmoil, investors are now seeking protection on their credit protection. In the last few weeks, Europe&#8217;s credit indexes &#8212; widely traded ways of betting on the creditworthiness of the continent&#8217;s big companies &#8212; have registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}