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Hype often doesn’t feel like hype at the time. But in the first quarter of 2014, there was a lot of it around: UK, retail, high-tech, high-growth were all hot sectors in ECM. And then it all came crashing down.
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Mario Draghi sparked a rally in peripheral European sovereign debt on Thursday — this time with more than just words. But as peripheral sovereign bond yields have ground ever lower this year, can they really go much further?
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The ECB’s announcement on Thursday that it will look into outright purchases of simple asset backed securities wasn’t exactly a big bazooka for Europe. But it was an important step and could be a defining point in the securitization market’s history. The bazooka might not have been built yet, let alone fired, but the ECB is at least designing it so that it will work properly. -
US industrial conglomerate Gates Global has set pricing on a $2.5bn dollar tranche to back its buyout by Blackstone.
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Evraz launched a $700m deal this week to become the first Russian borrower to try to tackle the loan market since the country annexed Crimea on March 18. Other Russian borrowers considering loans can learn from its approach.
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What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? For Europe’s policymakers, the past two years or so — since EU president Herman Van Rompuy set out his roadmap for banking union and fiscal integration in the eurozone — have been an exercise in answering that question.
