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MLP Care, the Turkish company that owns the Medical Park chain of private hospitals, priced its IPO on Tuesday after extending the bookbuild and slashing the price range.

Digi Communications’ Hungarian subsidiary has refinanced part of a €200m bridge loan provided by Citigroup and ING in October last year, which was used to fund the acquisition of a subsidiary of fellow Hungarian communications company Invitel.

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) on Monday reported $4bn of outflows from emerging market bond funds since January 30, but even in the face of a global equity sell-off, the asset class has been largely resilient — for now.

Last week’s chatter in the bond markets about the US applying a new round of sanctions on Russia served to highlight how little investors feel threatened by this kind of talk. Now the US has to take action to affect Russia.

The US Treasury has said that Russia’s bond market is too important to global financial stability to sanction under Directive 1, which is the “most positive scenario for Russian financial instruments,” according to analysis by Danske Bank.

Enerjisa, the Turkish utilities company owned by E.On and Sabanci, has attracted sizeable interest for its IPO, which was covered 4.8 times and priced at the bottom of the range.

RusHydro, the Russian hydroelectric power generator, will meet investors next week for a Eurorouble bond.

Some of the wealthiest and most influential businesspeople in the Russian Federation received an expected, but still unpleasant, piece of news on Monday with the publication of a US Treasury Department list that is expected to precede new sanctions, write Sam Kerr and Bianca Boorer.

Despite the impending US Treasury recommendations on Russian sovereign debt, Russian OFZ’s hit their highest cash price since 2015 this week, suggesting investors are betting heavily that the report will come to nothing.

Romania issued €2bn of new debt with a dual tranche offering on Thursday, taking the largest portion of funds with a new 20 year bond.

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Two Russian issuers forged ahead with plans to issue Eurobonds this week, despite increasing noise around Russian sanctions that threaten to push spreads wider.