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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...At The Close by Sarp Cercioglu Although a general understanding of the intermarket dynamics between the credit and equity markets exists in the investment world, it really hasn't gone beyond the axiom of "What's good for bonds is bad for stocks and vice versa." The global credit crunch over the past 18 months or so, however, brought the credit markets to the front burner of news, and as a result, these days, not many people are left who haven't heard of Libor when just a couple of years ago, hardly anyone outside of the credit markets knew about it. The same applies to credit default swaps. ...