Americas

With macro factors causing investors to expect the US Federal Reserve to delay rate hikes, the looming earnings announcement cycle has come into focus for volatility traders.

Low yields may have resulted in the first SSA fatality of the year after the Province of Ontario was forced to pull a 10 year euro benchmark on Monday. But some bankers suggested the issuer was simply unlucky.

With the world’s top financiers and policy makers ready to descend on Lima for the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank this week, Peruvian finance minister Alonso Segura has said that the South American sovereign is likely to issue more frequently in international bond markets.

Brazilian meatpacker Marfrig Global Foods has hired Braskem’s popular head of investor relations to lead its investor relations and strategic planning departments.

After a year of solid performance, a spike in volatility across multiple asset classes helped some derivatives fund managers to put in a strong performance last month.

Two Mexican borrowers are aiming to reignite Latin America primary markets next week after a volatile few days left the region’s bulging pipeline blocked, according to bankers on the deals.

Five Brazilian borrowers have tender offers underway on dollar bonds as those issuers with the cash to spare are taking advantage of rapid drops in secondary market prices.

Hewlett-Packard ensured a memorable end to the third quarter as it printed one of the biggest deals of the year but paid a hefty new issue concession as it re-opened the dollar market after a tumultuous start to the week.

Santander fell victim to market spasms this week, pulling a dollar trade amid extreme volatility.

After a doom-laden selloff on Monday, a modest rebound for US large-cap equities failed to calm volatility levels.

Regulation of leveraged finance in the US remains one of the main topics of conversation, as well as a mixed blessing, for the European market, delegates at the 9th annual Leveraged Finance Conference in London were told on Monday.

The recent, sudden swoon by widely referenced credit default swap names Glencore and Volkswagen has regalvanised market participant’s call for measures that will improve single name liquidity.