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Let’s not take anything away from Spain’s dollar bond comeback this week. It was a good deal, well executed. Spain went for tight pricing and achieved its aim, rather than gunning for a Broadway-style showstopper priced cheap enough to snaffle every spare dollar going.
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Corporate hybrid capital is just the kind of thing investment bankers love. A shiny new product promising multiple wins for both issuer and investor — not to mention structuring mandates for the banks.
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Hungary’s blowout five and 10 year bonds this week demonstrated spectacularly that emerging market bond investors are willing to hold their noses and look the other way for the sake of boosting their portfolios’ returns.
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How many times has a banker at a leading firm told you it was only a matter of time before the weaker brethren (here he or she names a few lesser banks) would drop out of the market, exhausted?
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Whether the squall that ripped through the SSA market on Tuesday turns out to be the beginning of the end of the great peripheral sovereign revival or just a tea-cup based affair remains to be seen.
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A new era of corporate activity may be dawning. After years of hoping, bankers may finally be about to see the kind of acquisition frenzy they desired. But if this week’s extraordinary deals are anything to go by, the action will not be coming from the traditional blue-chip corporate sphere. Private equity and leveraged companies are back in town.