Americas

Keurig Green Mountain, the US coffee maker, had replies due on Tuesday for a $6.4bn debt package backing its $13.9bn acquisition by JAB, the German investment group.

WTI crude oil front month futures fell from Monday, erasing gains from last week.

South American sovereign Uruguay said on Friday that it intends to issue about $1.5bn in international bond markets in 2016 as part of its prefunding policy.

The Province of Ontario has sold privately placed debt in euros for the first time, grabbing duration and attractive pricing with the trade, according to the issuer.

Latin American debt capital market bankers proclaimed that Pemex had “validated a new reality” for EM commodity credits in the bond markets after the Mexican state owned oil giant issued $5bn at new issue concessions so high that, until recently, they would have been unthinkable.

trueEX, a fast growing swap execution facility (SEF), has executed the first dealer to client Mexican peso interest rate swaps trades on its platform.

Procter & Gamble reopened the dollar bond market on Thursday with a benchmark trade that calmed nerves ahead of a heavy pipeline of M&A related deal flow.

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Concerns are mounting among some US options market participants that regulation is having adverse effects on business and fuelling a rift between financial market performance and economic data.

A rally this week in crude oil has reduced short-term pressures, but exploration and production firms still face existential threats as liquidity and M&A odds worsen, said analysts.

TriOptima, the over-the-counter post-trade service provider, has completed its first compression cycle for inflation swaps, with 18 banks taking part.

The US corporate bond market has once again proved it is the deepest, most mature and most reliable in the world.