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Lack of Pricing Clarity Still Plagues ABS Market


By Gabrielle Stein

November 17, 2008

The ABS market suffered yet another week of frozen new issuance and paltry trading activity in the secondary market. Hopes of pricing clarity for illiquid assets were quashed when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made the announcement that he would not be implementing the troubled asset purchase program as previously expected. On news of the announcement, the ABX-HE-AAA 07-2 dropped to close Wednesday at 36.67, a record low for the index.

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