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. 2021 Apr 21;133:106153. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106153

Table 11.

Reaction of Other Credit Instruments.

March 23, 2020
April 9, 2020
Pre Post Change Pre Post Change
Corporate bonds IG 438 379 −60 281 221 −60
HY 1101 1116 16 915 790 −125
CDX.IG 3 year 128 89 −39 97 72 −25
5 year 152 108 −44 105 84 −21
7 year 163 119 −44 118 102 −16
10 year 172 132 −41 124 111 −14
CDX.HY 3 year 760 782 22 708 612 −96
5 year 866 723 −143 625 555 −70
7 year 849 849 0 737 648 −89
10 year 847 842 −5 703 614 −88
Leveraged Loan Index 1,826 1,795 −31 2,089 2,138 49

The table reports the changes in corporate credit spreads, CDS spreads, and leveraged loan index around the March 23 and April 9 corporate QE announcements. CDS spreads are for CDX.NA.IG and CDX.NA.HY indices and expressed in bps, while Leveraged Loan Index is an index value (i.e. generally, a higher value corresponds to lower credit spreads).