Americas

January trading produced one of the most volatile starts to a year on record, with volumes in listed options and futures reflecting heightened activity.

Acadia, the US psychiatric and behavioural healthcare provider, closed its $955m term loan facility on Thursday after first adding, then removing, a sterling tranche.

SolarWinds, the US IT management software firm, priced its $1.5bn first lien acquisition debt package at a hefty discount on Monday while finalising the euro tranche size.

Argentina’s government reopened negotiations with holdout creditors on Monday after securing a $5bn loan from seven global banks last week.

Chinese drug maker BeiGene has decided to price its US listing on Tuesday evening, a day earlier than planned, according to sources close to the deal.

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.