UBS agreed to buy Credit Suisse in a historic, government-brokered deal aimed at containing a crisis of confidence that had started to spread across global financial markets. Bloomberg Surveillance broke the news and got analysis from:

Mohamed El-Erian, Bloomberg Opinion columnist 
Joost Beaumont, head of bank research at ABN Amro Bank 
Peter Tchir, head of macro strategy at Academy Securities 
Bob Michele, chief investment officer of fixed income at J.P. Morgan Asset Management 
Mark Naur, a strategist at Danske Bank 
Seema Shah, Principal Asset Management chief global strategist 
Greg Peters, PGIM Fixed Income co-chief investment officer 
Steve Pagliuca, Bain Capital Private Equity senior advisor 

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