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After several months without any long end dollar benchmark bonds from public sector issuers, two came along at once this week — bolstering confidence that conditions are right for a borrower to print in jumbo size in the tenor for the first time in more than two years. -
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Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms group, delivered Europe's largest ever high yield bond issue this week, a €7.3bn deal that has raised the bar for the market and led to expectations that more sponsors will follow suit amid heady investor demand.
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The dollar market sprung back to life as US banks dominated supply this week, with Goldman Sachs and Citigroup taking home more than $11bn through self-led trades.
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Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline, a wholly owned subsidiary and strategic asset of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc), has launched its $3bn dual trancher on Thursday with coupons set at the tight end of final guidance and books in excess of $11bn. Though an analyst said the levels offered looked fair, he said he was disappointed by the lack of transparency into Adnoc offered by the note.
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Vincom Retail jumped the final hurdle this week to pulling off the largest ever flotation in Vietnam. The firm is on track to raise D16.1tr ($708.6m) by pricing its offer at the top of guidance, after an unusual schedule.
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Russian steel company TMK has launched a consent solicitation for its $500m 6.75% 2020s with the purpose of removing IPSCO Tubulars, its US based subsidiary, as a guarantor on the notes. An investor in London said that he expects bondholders to agree to the changes.
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Singapore’s Reit issuers had a busy week, with Keppel-KBS US Real Estate Investment Trust off to a good start on its $448m IPO and Mapletree Industrial Trust raising S$155.7m ($114.5m) from an overnight placement.
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The People’s Republic of China opened books on Thursday for its highly anticipated $2bn bond, its first issuance in the offshore dollar market in more than a decade.
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Another pair of public sector borrowers tapped the dollar market, hitting two and three years respectively, in contrast to Tuesday’s salvo of long end trades. One of the issuers printed well beyond its initial size expectations.
