Americas

Peru’s largest financial group Credicorp tapped international bond markets for $500m on Wednesday, maintaining a robust order book even as it tightened pricing by more than 50bp.

CME Group has become the latest exchange to signal a return of open-outcry as it announced the reopening of its Eurodollars options pit.

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Nio hit the US market with a follow-on offering of American Depositary Shares (ADS) on Tuesday.

With bondholders mobilising ahead of a debt restructuring, Ecuador’s bonds have enjoyed a strong rally on the back of the borrower's perceived goodwill to the markets. But the government faces a delicate task in executing a restructuring.

Three of the Big Four accounting firms have looked to raise debt privately over the past few months, according to market sources, as PwC joins the US entities of KPMG and Deloitte in entering the US private placement market.

Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, June 8. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.

For yield-hungry bond buyers, Central American sovereigns El Salvador and Costa Rica have proved irresistible in recent days. But as political infighting in both countries hampers fiscal consolidation efforts, fiscal fundamentals could cause creditors concern for years to come.

The surprising rise in global stock markets continued last week with a strong rally on Friday after US job figures were better than expected. The resilience of secondary equity markets, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, is a boost for those lining up equity block sales.

Burning Rock Biotech, a cancer detection and therapy company, has opened books for its up to $209.3m Nasdaq IPO following a hot week for Chinese listings in the US.

Chinese e-commerce company JD.com covered its Hong Kong secondary listing within a few hours of opening bookbuilding late last Friday evening, with orders continuing to pour in on Monday.

Bond buyers are showing interest in Peru’s nuevo sol denominated paper amid a sharp increase in EM risk appetite, according to the government’s public treasury director, even as Fitch downgraded the sovereign’s local currency debt rating last week.

Royal Caribbean, the Miami-based cruise line operator, has tapped the convertible bond market for $1bn of funding to shore up its balance sheet until cruises are allowed to resume once the Covid-19 global pandemic subsides.