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Turbulent market conditions of the Middle East war have pushed bond issuers and investors to try new things
A swift response is tempting, but lenders should avoid kneejerk reaction
Talk of de-dollarisation has evaporated. The dollar market remains the undisputed king of financing
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Electricité de France was set to start the green bond craze among corporate issuers with an expected benchmark deal this week. Vasakronan got there first, with a deal yesterday, and was joined by Bank of America. The green bond market has unmistakably arrived. But it will only have real economic value — and therefore value for the environment — when deals start to price tighter than the issuer’s ordinary debt.
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Expectations were low for China’s third plenum to come up with any concrete and meaningful reforms to the country's economy. But the 200-plus members of the Communist party’s central committee have surprised everyone with the depth and breadth of their plans which have the potential to turn China into a free market economy.
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The high yield market has a new risk: long-dated bonds. Unitymedia's daring €475m 15 year deal opened a new frontier for the high yield market. Bankers say not every company could issue that long, but you can bet they will think about trying to repeat the deal. Investors, however, should be on their guard.
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With the recent European Central Bank rate cut driving yields down, yield hunting investors are willing to take on the more volatile world of emerging market currencies. Supranational and agency issuers should take advantage of the opportunity their high credit quality offers to get as much done in these markets as they can, while they can.
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Even though it wasn’t technically a bail-in, the restructuring of Co-op Bank serves as an example for how to formulate a bondholder-driven bank rescue. The only problem is that the lessons we have learned are hard ones — that forcing losses on bondholders is fraught with difficulty, and that the Co-op template can only really work for small banks.
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The high yield market has a new risk: long-dated bonds. Unitymedia's daring €475m 15 year deal opened a new frontier for the high yield market. Bankers say not every company could issue that long, but you can bet they will think about trying to repeat the deal. Investors, however, should be on their guard.