Americas
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A trio of agencies hit screens with dollar deals on Tuesday. Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and CDP Financial tapped the three year part of the curve, while the Ontario Teachers’ Finance Trust reopened a five year market that had been shuttered by coronavirus-related volatility. -
Rating agencies have continued their policy of taking swift action on Latin American governments as Standard & Poor’s removed its positive outlook from Brazil, the region’s largest economy, citing political opposition to President Jair Bolsonaro as a key reason.
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For now, at least, Argentina appears to be asking its domestic bondholders to take the brunt of the government’s efforts to ease cashflow worries amid the Covid-19 crisis, providing upward momentum to foreign law debt prices.
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Covered bond investors have begun to return, primary market spreads have tentatively started to tighten and new issue concessions are coming down — which theoretically bodes well for a broadening of supply. But bankers, battered by the stresses of the last month, remain cautious.
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As investors single out Mexico’s response to Covid-19 as one of the least convincing in Latin America, Fitch threw government-owned oil company Pemex and its $80bn of bonds deeper into sub-investment grade territory on Friday.
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Owners of Ecuador debt are expecting the country’s legal system to rule on whether Rafael Correa, former president and one-time bond market foe, can participate in next year’s elections. As they plan for the South American nation’s expected restructuring, some analysts spy upside to latest secondary prices.
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Toronto-Dominion Bank launched the first Australian dollar covered bond of the year on Thursday night, issuing in good size at a similar spread to where it recently issued its dollar covered bond.
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EM bond bankers were feeling relieved after a better day for global markets on Thursday, as they said some of the asset class’s best issuers were lining up deals hoping to clinch much-needed funding.
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As the initial government-imposed deadline for Argentina’s mammoth debt restructuring sailed by without a concrete offer to creditors having been put on the table, some analysts are worried that a hard default may be inevitable.
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Bond market participants in Latin America are gradually accepting that Zoom video calls will become a permanent feature of their job. However, in this particularly travel-intensive segment of capital markets, when it comes to selling a product, neither issuers nor bankers appear willing to cut down visits to clients in a region where personal trust is arguably more important than anywhere else.
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T-Mobile became the latest US company to cash in on the extraordinary boom in dollar bond issuance as it priced an increased $19bn deal on Thursday that attracted $72bn of demand.
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