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UK media company WPP sold a dual tranche bond this week, following its own recent trend for issuing shorter tenors with its most recent euro issues.

Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical company, this week priced the largest European corporate bond deal of 2018 — an €8bn six-tranche deal. The company used only European banks as global co-ordinators for the sale, as the euro market proved that it is a viable market for jumbo financings.

Spanish telecoms company Telefonica announced the sale of new hybrid issues this week while also tendering for several of its outstanding hybrids. After more than a month since the last benchmark euro hybrid issue, investors contributed to an order book exceeding €4.5bn.

Books closed on the IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, on Thursday lunchtime, with the base deal valued at €3.65bn and the company at €28bn.

The day after a jumbo corporate bond issue is often a quiet one for new issuance as investors digest their allocations and assess the impact on secondary spreads. But after Sanofi's €8bn offering on Wednesday, Thursday was another bumper day.

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Lotte Shopping raised W303.6bn ($285.4m) from a five year put three exchangeable bond on Wednesday, which some bankers thought was priced at overly generous terms.

Emirates Airlines has set the yield for its benchmark sukuk at a level representing a negative new issue premium, according to a banker on the deal.

Republic of Côte d'Ivoire was already hitting milestones with its new dual tranche euro trade on Thursday. Its 30 year offering is both the longest ever euro bond from sub-Saharan Africa, and looks set to be one of the highest yielding euro-denominated bonds from any sovereign in recent years.

Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical company, priced on Wednesday the largest corporate bond deal so far in 2018, an €8bn six-tranche deal. The company regularly uses a multi-tranche approach to the market, but this was its largest deal so far in any currency.

Dubai-based developer Majid Al Futtaim printed its third hybrid bond on Tuesday, a $400m perpetual non-call eight year. In the absence of a strong Asian bid, real money European investors anchored the book.

The IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, is covered throughout its revised price range, according to a banker involved in the transaction.