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With €19bn of new euro paper and $8.5bn of new dollar issuance this week, you would think that all was right again in the sovereign, supranational and agency market. Think again. This was a great week compared to what many people’s expectations were before Christmas but as with many things in the post-festive period there are signs of strain, flab and economic distress.
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Defying many bankers’ fears, the sovereign, supranational and agency bond market has made a rousing start to the year. Most significant of this week’s $16.7bn of benchmark deals in dollars, euros and sterling was the EFSF’s return to form.
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Systemic problems in the SSA market that have simmered away for years could be about to come to the boil and scald borrowers and banks in equal measure.
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Pity the European Banking Authority. Politicians had handed it the near-impossible task of overseeing yet another round of stress tests on European banks while a savage sovereign debt crisis was in full flow.
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What on earth happened in Oslo the other week? Why did the prime minister of this byword for financial prudence shove Eksportfinans — the export financing agency it part-owned — off a cliff?
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It’s four years and counting since the great credit crunch began and yet how much deleveraging has actually taken place? Households have barely begun to pay down mortgages and credit cards. Financials are half-way there — but the easy steps are all in the past. Sovereigns are on the brink of default. But at least the corporate sector is in good shape, right?