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Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
Investors are still around and issuers can get ahead of the September rush
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  • Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s decision to leave rates untouched on Thursday threw investors used to hand-holding for a loop. More fool them.
  • The rally in emerging markets is built on sand, yet it could have staying power.
  • The news that seven open ended commercial real estate funds froze redemptions this week should come as no surprise. Funding highly illiquid, chunky investments with cash that investors can pull at short notice is a flawed strategy.
  • Looking at corporate bond issuance in Europe over the last two weeks you would be forgiven for thinking the Brexit vote had never happened.
  • After a freeze brought about by the UK’s Brexit vote, the European capital markets are thawing. While only a tap, the German State of Hesse has reopened public sector bond markets. Perhaps it was no coincidence that Frankfurt, in Hesse, is eager to raise its profile as an alternative for financial firms wanting to leave London.
  • Last Friday's force 12 financial hurricane had been downgraded to a storm in a rather British tea cup by Thursday as primary capital markets dusted themselves off and reopened with deals from across the spectrum. But don't relax yet — the UK’s EU vote may prove the catalyst for a host of horrors over the summer.