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Asia’s debt market was hit with volatility this week, putting pressure on secondary trading, denting primary bond supply and forcing investment grade borrower Indian Railway Finance Corp to pull its dollar transaction. Is there any respite on the way? Morgan Davis finds out.

Chinese car manufacturer BAIC Motor Corp sold a popular $350m bond on Wednesday. While the issuer offered a premium to investors in the primary market, the notes ended up trading tighter in secondary.

US-listed Autohome, an online car marketplace, has wrapped up its HK$5.34bn ($687.8m) secondary offering in Hong Kong, pricing the deal even as its US stock dived amid a market rout.

Shaoxing Shangyu State-owned Capital Investment and Operation Co priced a $500m international bond on Tuesday, in a trade that ended up resembling a club deal after investors dropped out due to aggressive price tightening.

Chinese internet company Baidu has filed updated offer documents for its Hong Kong secondary listing, the final step before it launches its potential multi-billion-dollar deal.

The Asian Development Bank made a rare outing in China’s interbank market this week. The Rmb2bn ($307m) bond, priced significantly below the onshore benchmark, ended the multilateral development bank’s absence from the domestic Chinese market for over a decade.

Chinese state-owned Chongqing Energy Investment Group Co has revealed that it has overdue payments on some of its onshore bank debt, confirming rumours that caused a plunge in its dollar bond price and triggered volatility in related names last week.

China’s Guangdong Lingyi iTech Manufacturing Co, a company focused on making magnetic materials, electric motors and electric wires for automobiles, computers and mobile phones, has hit the market for a $150m loan.

China’s YishengBio is planning to list in Hong Kong, having filed an IPO application with the bourse on Monday.

The Asian Development Bank is marketing a five year renminbi-denominated bond, as it looks to raise Rmb2bn ($307m) from its first outing in the onshore China market in over a decade.

Real estate developer China Aoyuan Group has closed a $225m-equivalent dual currency loan with nine banks in the syndicate.