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Unitymedia, one of Germany’s largest cable operators, launched a €420m senior secured high yield bond today.

Arrangers have not set a closing date for the $1bn loan for the Sultanate of Oman, on which pricing has been widened recently, but bankers hope to close the deal before year end.

Corporate bond bankers are busy, for this time of year. While they are usually up for doing deals, it is clear investors, too, are in no hurry to close their books for the year, but are keen to buy paper, despite the let-down of the European Central Bank’s lukewarm QE boost last week.

China Overseas Finance Investment (Cayman) V has opened books on a $1.2bn equity-linked offering of bonds exchangeable into shares of China Overseas Land & Investments.

India’s Reliance Industries has selected a group of 13 lenders for a $1bn loan that will refinance a borrowing raised in 2010.

Air Liquide and Saipem loans show that bankers and borrowers are not yet slowing down as they seek to tie up remaining bumper deals they launched in a busy fourth quarter.

The Sultanate of Oman has widened the pricing of its $1bn loan by 10bp to encourage banks to lend, after the sovereign was downgraded by Standard & Poor's in November.

Kazmunaigas (KMG) is repurchasing $3.4bn of bonds across its outstanding 2043s, 2044s, 2023s, 2025s, 2020s and 2021s.

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General Electric has terminated an agreement to sell its appliance business to Swedish household appliance producer Electrolux, toasting bankers' plans to provide bridge financing.

A bank meeting for lenders interested in a $130m leveraged buyout loan for LVMH’s Asian investment arm has been postponed, according to sources.

A trio of Wall Street’s biggest banks led a dash for dollars this week as a positive market backdrop drew a flood of issuance ahead of the year-end slowdown.