Americas

Mondelez International, the US snacks group that owns Cadbury and Oreo, satisfied its taste for long dated sterling debt on Tuesday, reaching far out along the curve to issue a £400m 20 year bond.

Geopolitical fears in the wake of the attacks on Paris over the weekend have been not enough to overcome the effect on futures prices of a large supply glut.

Teva, the New York-listed Israeli pharmaceutical company, has completed and signed $33.75bn of loans for its acquisition of Allergan Generics.

Brazilian iron ore producer Samarco Mineração’s bonds recovered slightly on Monday despite the issuer’s owners giving mixed signals regarding its attitude to the crisis-ridden company.

Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), the Brazilian government-owned development bank, on Monday became the latest financial institution from the country to look to take advantage of depressed bond prices by repurchasing debt below par.

Chinese company Yirendai, an online consumer finance marketplace, is eyeing the New York Stock Exchange for a $100m IPO and has a filed a preliminary prospectus for the listing.

US corporate bond issuance in Europe - so-called reverse Yankee bonds - has steadily regained strength this autumn and could be followed by issuers from elsewhere in the world selling euro bonds.

Veritas Technologies, the Californian data storage company, has increased its high yield bond issue to make up for a disappointing loan financing. But initial price talk has yet to emerge.

Fitch has cut the credit rating of Pacific Exploration and Production (formerly Pacific Rubiales) by two notches from B+ to B- and placed the issuer on rating watch negative after the agency revised its oil price outlook.

Pemex CFO, Mario Beauregard has resigned from the state-owned Mexican oil giant and will be replaced by a peer from a fellow government enterprise.

It is already evident that the human and environmental impact of last week’s burst dam at an iron ore mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil, will be tragic. But those left with the uneasy task of analysing the financial fallout on the company that operated the mine still have more questions than answers as the bonds sold off 30 points.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, chose 21 banks to act as mandated lead arrangers for a $75bn mega loan — the largest ever corporate loan — but the firm coordinated all the banks itself in the unique acquisition financing.