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Chinese hospitality company Huazhu Group has launched a secondary offering in Hong Kong, the latest in a growing number of dual listings on the bourse.

Emerging markets issuers flocked to bond markets this week with impressive results, despite severe weaknesses in equity and oil markets. A 20bp negative concession for Brazil’s Suzano on Thursday, on the first sustainability-linked bond ever from an EM issuer, wrapped a hectic week as investors dived into the higher yielding asset classes. Mariam Meskin and Oliver West report.

At least 12 Argentine provinces are either deep in restructuring talks with bondholders or are preparing to begin negotiations. But as Argentina’s finance minister Martín Guzmán calls for regional governments to renegotiate their debts in line with the federal government’s sustainability guidelines, investors are unlikely to grant the same level of debt relief they agreed with the sovereign.

Nestlé made the tech stock sell-off look irrelevant as it raced into the US corporate bond market as soon as it opened this week, raising $4bn and scoring the lowest coupons on record for a 144A issuer at those maturities on each of its four tranches.

The resilience of capital markets in the face of the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged equity issuers and sellers to bring an abundance of IPOs, rights issues and block trades this autumn. Indices have bounced since their March nadir but their vulnerability — and that of ECM activity — to the tech stocks that have driven the rebound was made stark this week when the Nasdaq index fell more than 10% in two days, write Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.

A year on from the closure of its flow equity trading business, Deutsche Bank’s investment bank is back in a bullish mood after performing well during the first stage of the coronavirus crisis.

Boutique firm Liberum has picked David Parsons as executive chairman and Bidhi Bhoma as chief executive, as founder Shane Le Prevost, who previously held both those positions, is stepping down.

Trade finance lender Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exerior (Bladex) sold its first dollar bond in five years on Wednesday, boasting an order book that remained strong despite spread tightening to give Latin American primary markets an encouraging start to September.

Brazil’s largest independent oil and gas company, Petro Rio, will begin investor calls on Thursday ahead of a proposed debut bond issue that bankers say will test the strength of the market like no other Latin American issuer this month.

Consorcio Transmantaro, the Peruvian transmission company, added $200m to its green bonds maturing in 2034 on Wednesday.

Private Mexican energy company Infraestructura Energética Nova (IENova) began calls with fixed income investors on Wednesday as it plans a second visit to international bond markets.

Chinese pet-focused e-commerce site Boqii Holding filed its listing documents for a US IPO on Tuesday, but Citigroup, one of the original lead banks on the deal, is now no longer in the syndicate.