Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Oddo to Shut French CDO Funds `Caught Out' in U.S. Subprime-Mortgage Rout

(Bloomberg) -- Oddo & Cie, a French stockbroker and
money manager, plans to close three funds totaling 1 billion
euros ($1.37 billion), citing the ``unprecedented'' crisis in
the U.S. asset-backed securities market.

Oddo said it will wind down the funds within the ``shortest
possible time frame'' after struggling to value holdings of
collateralized debt obligations, notes backed by other bonds,
loans and their derivatives.


Read more at Bloomberg Bonds News

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