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India's Adani Transmission wooed investors to a $500m long-dated bond issuance on Thursday, offering them some concession for the amortising nature of the notes.

OneConnect Financial Technology, an arm of Chinese financial conglomerate Ping An Group, has set the ball rolling for an up to $100m US IPO, having previously sought to list in Hong Kong.

AbbVie enjoyed the undivided attention of US bond investors on Tuesday when it hit the market with a $30bn 10 tranche deal that, remarkably for such a big deal, priced with a negative new issue concession.

Ball Corporation, a US metal packaging and aerospace technology company, took advantage low rates this week to cut its financing costs with a successful €1.3bn dual-tranche issue that was increased from €900m.

A trio of triple-B rated companies brought bond sales totalling €2.75bn on Thursday, as a primary market abuzz with official stimulus roared towards the year's close.

Investors looked beyond Nanyang Commercial Bank's Hong Kong home to its Chinese parent this week, allowing the borrower to close a $700m Basel III-compliant tier two subordinated deal, despite the protests happening in the city.

India’s Tata Motors was dealt a blow by the market on Wednesday, as it was forced to contend with protests in Hong Kong as it tried to sell a dollar bond.

State Bank of India is looking to raise about Rp80bn ($1.1bn) by selling a minority stake in SBI Cards’ planned jumbo IPO, according to a banker on the mandate.

Ball Corporation, a US metal packaging and aerospace technology company, is looking to cut its financing costs with a €900m issue of senior unsecured notes. Crown, its closest peer in metal packaging, set a new floor — just 0.75% — for high yield coupons in Europe in October.

High grade dollar bond investors are braced for the biggest deal of the year after AbbVie, the pharmaceutical company, appointed a trio of banks to lead a possible $25bn issue that could come as soon as Monday.

Colgate Palmolive and Boston Scientific Corp printed €1.9bn of bonds this week, the latest US companies in the line to issue euro debt.

Germany’s Bayer took a cautious approach to issuing a €1.75bn dual tranche hybrid capital issue on Thursday, but despite the huge litigation battle it is facing, yield-hungry investors piled into the deal, pushing the book above €10bn and enabling Bayer to chop a fat slice off the yields.