Country risk index

christian11 at mindspring.com christian11 at mindspring.com
Mon Jul 16 08:03:25 PDT 2001



>For countries like ARG where the benchmark bond is a Brady, you have to do some funky maths to strip out the effect of the US T-Bond collateral, hence you often see "stripped yield spread" used interchangeably.

Is a Brady bond just a bond in local currency, backed by US dollars?


>That thing I half-wrote on "How To Default" may become topical in the nextcouple of weeks -- if it does, I will finish it. But my current belief is that Argy is too big to fail.

Could you post it again (or send me a copy)?

Christian



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