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The response to some of this week’s dollar deals has got some bankers believing that next week’s US Federal Reserve meeting might not prove to be the market shutting millstone that it had promised to be just a few weeks ago. -
Amid a hail of equity capital markets deals on Thursday evening, Airbus launched a €2.1bn sale of all its remaining shares in Dassault Aviation, using a €1bn exchangeable bond and block trade of about €800m. That came after Valeo had sold a $450m equity-neutral convertible earlier in the day, and as two other block trades were in the market.
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Kommunalbanken on Thursday sold its largest floating rate note ever — and the largest floater from an SSA since early March — as bankers away from the trade said the “stars aligned” for the issuer.
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US agribusiness and food company Bunge on Thursday issued the first euro benchmark bond since the European Central Bank began to buy corporate bonds on Wednesday, in a deal that could attract attention from other US-based corporates.
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Oman successfully pinned down $2.5bn of funding through a dual tranche note this week, even as Saudi Arabia’s gargantuan bond creeps closer.
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After a stellar book for Novolipetsk Steel's (NLMK) new issue on Wednesday, trades from Sovcomflot and Evraz on Thursday morning will test the true level of investor appetite for Russian corporate debt.
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Ooredoo, the Qatar telecoms company, formerly Qtel, is roadshowing a dollar benchmark via eight banks, potentially adding to increased bond supply from the country, which already stands at seven times the full year total for 2015.
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Pay TV and broadband provider Cablevision sold the first true corporate bond from Argentina since the sovereign exited default in April, raising $500m on the same day the Province of Buenos Aires hit the market for the second time this year.
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Oman has released final price guidance for its dual tranche note with order books in excess of $7bn.
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A pair of public sector borrowers are lining up to sell dollar floating rate notes on Thursday, following a series of floating and fixed rate deals in the currency on Wednesday.
