Credit Market Commentary: Market Derived Signal: Buyout Speculation Keeps Powering RadioShack?s Wider CDS Spreads

Standard & Poors, July 2010

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Abstract
Since July 19, RadioShack's CDS spread tightened 90 bps or 23% as the chance of the company being acquired in a leveraged buyout decreased. With the shift in trend, RadioShack's CDS moved closer toward its 'BB' consumer discretionary CDS benchmark, although it remains wider than the benchmark. For the most part of the past year, its CDS spread has been tighter than the benchmark (see chart 1). In comparison with its 'BB' consumer discretionary CDS benchmark, RadioShack's CDS has rebounded from its widest gap. With the acquisition rumors, the gap has shifted from being tight to being wide of the benchmark. Its widest gap was 91 bps when RadioShack's CDS spread was 388 bps and the benchmark CDS spread was...

Companies mentioned in this report are: RadioShack Corp.

RadioShack Corp.

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