SoftBank sounds klaxon for high times in high yield

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SoftBank sounds klaxon for high times in high yield

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Image #: 37671895 (150618) -- CHIBA, June 18, 2015 (Xinhua) -- A humanoid robot "Pepper" is seen during the Softbank's press conference in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan, June 18, 2015. Softbank announced that it will start to sell the emotional robot to the public on June 20 with the price of 198,000 yen (about 1,610 U.S. dollars). | STRINGER/LANDOV/Press Association Images

In what was hailed as a momentous, perhaps record breaking, week in high yield finance, Japanese telecoms operator SoftBank took the crown by raising the year’s biggest Asian offshore high yield deal, writes Victor Jimenez.

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