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Demonstrating access to the capital markets is an essential part of a country's economic rehabilitation. That makes last week's bond from Ukraine useful. But one deal is no evidence of regular access and the faith of some investors does not outweigh all other problems.
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The contrasting trajectories of two jumbo KKR buyouts are embarrassing for leveraged finance bankers and investors. And they should trigger a long, hard look at what drives investment decisions.
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Japan’s megabanks have long faced a domestic client base that has little appetite for loans, and offers little opportunity for big profits. But overseas expansion is no sure bet when the world is as fraught as it is now. These banks are forced to walk a tightrope, and earnings announcements next week will give a clue as to whether they have a plan to steady themselves.
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The UK’s latest scheme to stimulate the economy, Funding for Lending, has been greeted with an almost audible weary sigh from the market. It should reduce loan funding costs appreciably, which can only help the economy. Whether it unlocks loans for borrowers who can’t get them already is much less certain.
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Allowing Scotland to issue its own debt is at best a waste of time. At worst, it could also be costly.
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China Fishery is hitting the road this week to test demand for a bond, readying the first Asian high yield deal in more than two months. But investors are too jittery to absorb a spree of high yield issues. It is juicy structures, not juicy credits, that bankers should be emphasising.