hard · Debt Capital Markets
An investor enters into a negative-basis trade by purchasing a corporate bond at a Z-spread of 250 bps and buying 5-year CDS protection on the same issuer at 180 bps.
Excluding funding costs, what is the 'basis' being captured?
- +70 bps
- -1.38 bps
- -70 bps
- 430 bps
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