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No sane SSA borrower would say that the public sector primary markets were in worse shape now than they were a year ago, even with the possibility of a Spanish bail-out. So given the recent experience of markets closing amid unprecedented and unpredictable volatility, why are more borrowers not looking to get ahead of 2013’s funding programmes?
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Air Liquide’s announcement this week that it had become "the first private company to issue bonds meeting SRI investors’ criteria" smelled of hype.
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All the talk in leveraged finance is about the high yield bond and leveraged loan markets converging.
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Who would be a central banker? It takes a special breed, clearly. Just ask Mario Draghi, lambasted by disgruntled politicians or bankers or investors every day before he promised to prop up Europe’s failed economies — only to find himself pilloried by a slightly different subset of the same folk every day since.
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Syndicated loans bankers with little to do other than flick through downbeat headlines have found this year tough. The depressingly low volume totals have been hard to ignore: Europe down 79%; the lowest monthly activity on record in August; investment grade deals falling by a whopping 84%.
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How long can it last? That question is running through the minds of many European corporate bond specialists, on both the buy and sell sides.