Credit Suisse was trending for all the wrong reasons this weekend, as social media was in a frenzy debating whether one of the 30 global systemically important banks would collapse altogether.
The bank did open its doors on Monday. The bad news was, its shares CSGN,
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fell 11% at the open to a new record low, and have dropped 59% this year.
The market that has really caught the attention of traders is that of credit-default swaps. Those are effectively batch on whether a debt issuer will survive. The 5-year credit default swap widened on Friday to 250

BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (OTCMKTS:BTBIF – Get Rating) saw a large drop in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 20,400 shares, a drop of 26.9% from the April 15th total of 27,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 29.1 days.