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The dollar market continued to churn out jumbo deals this week as borrowers shrugged off volatility to secure strong order books and healthy new issue premiums. -
ABN Amro got the size and pricing it was after with its first dollar print of 2016, amid choppy market conditions.
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Telenor sold $1.5bn of shares in VimpelCom, the Russian telecoms company, this week, in a combined equity placing and exchangeable bond that were well received, despite the Uzbek bribery scandal that engulfed both companies last year.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange plans to launch options trading on the FTSE Emerging Index next week, offering market participants exposure to the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced and secondary emerging markets.
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Bayer clinched a $66bn agreement to buy Monsanto this week, forming a global leader in farming technology and promising a shower of capital markets transactions that will test debt and equity markets — but may also delight them.
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Interest rate swap trading platform trueEX has set its sights on a narrowing pool of remaining dealers it has not signed up, as the addition of BNP Paribas this week took its market haul to 21.
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Several new avenues for commodities traders have opened up through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with trading in the first European Union wheat futures contracts beginning this week and an October rollout slated for the first exchange-traded precious metals spread and ratio futures contracts.
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The grins on the faces of Werner Baumann and Hugh Grant, chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto, look genuine enough. The deal they have struck could catapult Baumann to head of the world’s leading agribusiness company and net Grant a reported $226m.
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CME Group is set to roll out trading in what it claims are the first-ever exchange-traded precious metals spread and ratio futures contracts.
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Credit risk has awakened from its summer slumber over the last couple of days with the CDX IG and iTraxx main index now trading 8% and 11% higher than their close on Thursday. While it’s still too early to see whether this latest surge is a passing event or a longer lasting trend, both indices are still below their 12 month averages and now trade roughly 40% off the highs set earlier in the year.
