Barclays
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Spain rode out another volatile day in eurozone government bonds on Wednesday to finish up with a healthy €5bn of 15 year paper from an order book nearly treble that size. -
The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) breezed through the final syndication of its financial year on Tuesday, printing at a record low real yield with its biggest ever book — despite a postponed start to opening books and murmurings about falling demand for inflation linked paper.
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and WL Bank successively priced the tightest covered bonds of the year this week and both were able to tighten pricing to a greater extent than any previous German issuer.
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Finnish technology company Nokia is set to become the first European company to issue a euro high yield bond for four weeks. Meanwhile, UK food producer Bakkavor will repay all its notes.
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Bpifrance Financement became this week’s third French public sector issuer on Thursday, scoring €500m with a tap.
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US pharma research firm Quintiles IMS Holdings printed on Thursday a new €1.4bn high yield bond, proving that European high yield investors are embracing the train of US issuers printing in euros.
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Barclays showed some quality on Thursday, beating the Street’s estimates on capital and profit after extraordinary charges. The bank rode the wave of surging trade volumes in the fourth quarter and a strengthening dollar, but investment banking outperformed as well. Best of all, for its bankers, the firm said it was bringing forward bonus payments.
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Spain rode out another volatile day in eurozone government bonds to finish up with a healthy €5bn of 15 year paper from an order book nearly treble that size.
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Citic snatched $1.25bn from an aggressively priced dual-tranche transaction on Tuesday, its second bond outing since a restructuring that saw it gain investment grade status.
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Spain is set to bring its second benchmark of the year after mandating banks on Tuesday, as the country enjoys a spell of stability compared to some of its eurozone peers and a market that appears to be calming after a volatile start to the week.
