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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.

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Six borrowers announced offerings in the European high yield bond market on Monday as borrowers looked to beat what could have been disruptive Dutch elections two days later.

KfW launched a £300m tap of a December 2019 line on Wednesday, pulling in over £350m of orders in spite of sharp swings in the strength of the currency.

Akbank’s more generous pricing seems to have paid off with banks lining up to refinance its syndicated loan.

Public sector borrowers will take a pause from primary this week as they dodge possible volatility during a week riddled with political and economic risk events in three major currencies.

A pair of supranational issuers nipped in on Tuesday with what are likely to be the final dollar deals of the week before a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday — where futures prices suggest an overwhelming likelihood that the Federal Reserve’s target rate will rise.