BoE’s annual threes ‘shows shift in buy side preference’

The Bank of England’s annual €2bn three year dollar issue was comfortably oversubscribed on Monday, but the smaller volume of orders compared with last year and lack of price movement reflected both the greater difficulty in printing short dated deals and investor pushback against super tight swap levels, said bankers. That may have played a role in FMS Wertmanagement’s decision on Monday to mandate for a five year dollar deal, they added.