Telefónica holds back on £700m blowout

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Telefónica holds back on £700m blowout

Telefónica, the Spanish telecoms group that owns the UK mobile phone network O2, launched a £700m eight year sterling bond on Monday that attracted one of the biggest order books for a sterling corporate bond this year. Yet the issuer did not push the deal as tight or as large as observers thought it might have.

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