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Unédic launched a 10 year benchmark on Tuesday. The deal came in the wake of a televised debate between the French presidential candidates that appeared to restore investors’ confidence in French names, according to an SSA syndicate banker at one of the leads.

Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) took advantage of the positive market on Monday to price three $500m tranches of new notes at an attractive price, while still offering investors some cushion on the fixed rate portions.

Buoyed by relief following a Dutch election in which Eurosceptic Geert Wilders’ hopes of forming a government were dashed, public sector borrowers are flocking back to capital markets.

Oil products storage and distribution firm Puma Energy is back in the loan market for a two-pronged $570m financing, to extend as well as replace some of its existing debt.

Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) is selling a combination of floating and fixed rate bonds, with price thoughts for a five and a 10 year released at the same level. On the high yield side, China’s Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Co is marketing its debut three year notes.

Pre-marketing for Asian IPOs picked up in earnest on Monday, with Guotai Junan Securities Co’s $2bn listing in Hong Kong among those vying for investor attention.

E.On, the German electricity and gas company, successfully placed €1.34bn of new equity on Thursday night after announcing earlier in the week that it had made a €16bn loss in 2016 due to a writedown of the value of Uniper, the fossil fuels business it span off last year, and costs related to the decommissioning of its nuclear assets.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s head of southeast Asia FIG investment banking and a managing director in the Asia Pacific financial sponsors group have left.

South Africa’s Nedbank is dipping its toes into Asian liquidity for a $350m three year bullet that gives lenders the option of committing in dollars and euros.

Expectations that a bond that already looked expensive will be become even more so helped Bolivia’s new 10 year trade well on the break after coming close to comps on Monday.

World Bank proved its popularity in the Australian dollar bond market on Tuesday, selling a combination of medium and long dated debt for A$800m ($605.4m) to a wide variety of investors.

The sterling market was red hot this week with public sector issuers hitting screens in force, despite a headline heavy calendar.