Corporate bonds on fire as mandos, hybrids, seniors fly

Europe’s corporate bond market is on classic form, swallowing six-tranche monster deals, hybrid issues paired with senior and other juicy trades day after day. Vodafone’s £3.4bn mandatorily convertible bond grabbed the attention on Tuesday with coupons that looked astonishingly low for sub debt, but behind it all is a rally caused by, of all things, economic uncertainty.