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Israel Chemicals is out with initial price thoughts for a 10 year note and follows hot on the heels of Israel Electric which printed the same tenor on November 5.

Investors showed they were keen to get exposure to the India story, with orders flooding in for NTPC’s 10 year outing on November 19. US investors in particular, made up a good chunk of the book for the Reg S bond from India’s largest power generation company, which offered some much needed diversity away from China.

IBM launched an opportunistic euro bond issue on Wednesday, taking advantage of strong market conditions to sell €1bn of 8.5 year bonds with a minimal new issue premium - and according to one banker, much tighter than its dollar curve.

Bonds of UK pub companies fell on Wednesday after the House of Commons passed a surprise amendment to a bill, which if it becomes law will mean pub tenants can no longer be obliged to buy beer from their owners.

Finland returned to the sterling bond market on Wednesday with its first new deal in over a year. It came hot on the heels of Instituto de Crédito Oficial, which on Tuesday sold its first new issue in the currency in five years.

Numericable completed its €4.7bn capital increase this week, bringing to an end the financing for the French cable operator’s acquisition of SFR.

NTPC launched bookbuilding for a ten year dollar bond on November 19 in its first outing for more than two years. The power company is hoping to capitalise on its status an Indian quasi-sovereign in a market that a market that is overrun by supply from China.

Barclays has named two new heads for its Asia Pacific equities franchise, as the bank focuses investment in areas like cash execution, ETC and programme ETF trading and electronic equities trading.

Informa, the UK business-to-business publishing and events group, launched a cash box placing on Tuesday morning, hoping to raise about £275m to fully fund an acquisition of Hanley Wood Exhibitions, a US events business, which was announced simultaneously. Informa got the deal done, but only raised £207m after some top shareholders said they preferred a smaller deal.

Deutsche Bank and Barclays on Tuesday evening launched a block trade of a 10.09% stake worth £83m in Crest Nicholson, the UK housebuilder.

A fire in its largest factory in Spain has led meat processor Campofrio to abandon plans to issue a bond to refinance senior unsecured notes maturing in 2016.

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, the Spanish building and environmental services company, is close to reaching agreement with its creditors on a debt restructuring, according to a spokesman for the company.