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The largest dairy company in Argentina is looking at calling its existing 2021s in July after filing a new debt shelf, according to market sources in Buenos Aires.

China Resources Land tapped the Panda bond market for the first time since July 2017, raising Rmb6bn ($945.6m). But few onshore investors who bought the three year bond looked at the trade as a real Panda, according to bankers on the deal.

Unigel, the Brazilian petrochemicals company, became the first Latin American corporate name to announce deal plans since early February, and bankers say this will provide a far tougher test of market sentiment than Paraguay's deal.

Land-locked sovereign Paraguay sold the first cross-border bond from a Latin American issuer in exactly a month on Thursday, but though bankers said the deal was positive for the market, they did not think the slim concession was a sign of things to come.

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The low rates in Europe are making the euro high yield market an attractive option for US issuers like Belden, a St Louis-based manufacturer of telecoms equipment, which is launching a new euro bond to buy back old deals in euros and dollars. More US issuers are coming to euros, say bankers and investors.

The Province of Alberta printed a strong 10 year dollar benchmark on Thursday — the first in that maturity from an SSA since late January — leading the way for others to follow, said SSA bankers. Elsewhere, five years was very much in vogue in the dollar market — although there were some signs of investor fatigue by the end of the week, despite more issuers being expected to look at the tenor next week.

Fresh doubt has been cast on whether the record-breaking $100bn loan package for US chip maker Broadcom will come to fruition, after a US national security committee took the unusual step of issuing a public warning against the acquisition that the funds will finance.

The Province of Alberta printed a strong 10 year dollar benchmark on Thursday — the first from an SSA since late January — leading the way for others to follow, said SSA bankers. Elsewhere, Export Development Canada was unable to move from price thoughts on a five year global.

Three sterling deals this week matched the busiest week of 2018 for the currency as two UK corporate issuers returned to the market after notable absences and a US issuer opted for sterling for its first non-dollar deal.

CVS Health printed the third-biggest bond deal of all time as it funded its $67.5bn acquisition of Aetna. Bankers hope that a revival in M&A activity will provide a shot in the arm for supply.