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The public bond market needs a Gulf reopener with transparent pricing
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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Asian companies hoping to raise money in the bond market face a tough choice: come to the market now and pay more to borrow than they could have done earlier this year — or wait and risk the markets getting worse and prices moving higher. Companies with half a chance of getting a deal away should strike sooner rather than later.
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Observing before acting has a veneer of sense about it. But we shouldn’t expect to learn anything much from the European Commission's observation period ahead of the introduction of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio. It's pointless.
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The faces may have changed but financial blunderers are still running the show in Dublin. The latest folly: selling one third of the best bit of their banking system for €1bn — after spending more than €60bn on the worst.
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The voluntary nature of the proposed Greek debt package looks — for the moment — like it will not trigger sovereign CDS. If that remains the case, then it's hard to see what purpose the credit insurance market has.
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Asia’s loans bankers can put their feet up for a couple of months. A surge of deals in the first half of the year has slowed lending, draining liquidity and increasing funding costs. But the loan market will rally. Many borrowers have nowhere else to go.
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For followers of European sovereign debt, there has been little to cheer about this summer unless you recently bought easily defended property, an arms cache and a lot of tinned food. But amid the continuing chaos around Greek debt and the rout of peripheral European securities, there may be two small reasons to feel a little more optimistic about the future.