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German publishing company Bertelsmann returned to the euro corporate bond market on Tuesday to re-market a deal it had pulled in May after setting the spread. This time the issuer priced the transaction at what was seen as a more realistic spread, but the high premium was in part due to the illiquidity of the secondary curve. -
Unédic drew large demand for its first 10 year euro benchmark of the year on Wednesday, allowing the issuer to considerably tighten its spread through pricing.
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ADO Properties is seeking to raise Schuldschein debt, a month after shelving a eight year public bond after a high profile bribery case in Israel implicated its chairman.
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Unédic will bring a 10 year euro benchmark on Wednesday that SSA bankers are confident will avoid the fate of some of last week’s deals at that point of the curve.
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German publishing company Bertelsmann returned to the euro corporate bond market on Tuesday to remarket a deal it had pulled in May after setting the spread. This time the issuer priced the transaction, but it had to pay a much larger new issue premium than others have done on recent deals.
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Exyte, the German company that designs and builds high tech facilities such as laboratories and factories, has unveiled its plans to go public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in October, having filed an intention to float document on Monday.
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Comcast won the bidding war for Sky over the weekend, with the US cable company mobilising £28.79bn-equivalent of loan funding to buy the UK media firm.
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LafargeHolcim has returned to the Schuldschein market looking for €300m, across dollar and euro tranches, alongside raising long-dated US private placements.
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Japan Tobacco took the rare step of issuing corporate bonds in three different currencies on the same day when it sold its debut euro and sterling bond deals alongside a pair of dollar tranches this week. The unusual move proved to be a successful one however, with each tranche at least three times subscribed.
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Japanese issuers are not frequently seen in the European corporate bond markets, but this week could have two companies going head to head with benchmark euro transactions. Japan Tobacco will sell its first new issues in Europe, while Toyota is better known to investors on the continent.
