SSA dollar names pile into topsy-turvy market

Mike Turner

August 21, 2019 04:45 pm

World Bank 230

The World Bank was one of a bevy of SSA dollar issuers raising a total of $8.4bn this week, with most of the trades indicating that investors coming back from the summer were having to decipher a completely different market to the one they left.

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Nomura BMO Capital Markets JP Morgan Morgan Stanley SSA TD Securities World Bank Nederlandse Waterschapsbank Barclays Supras and agencies Daiwa Securities

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Mike Turner

Corporate Debt Editor

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