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Energy companies took advantage of record tight spreads as they joined a ‘perfect storm’ of dollar funding
Rates and credit under pressure as battle to be UK prime minister looks set to heat up
Amazon’s Swiss debut and Alphabet’s first yen deal jolted debt markets this week
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German telecoms company United Internet began bookbuilding a Schuldschein on Wednesday afternoon, according to market sources. It has the tightest pricing on a new deal since the pandemic began. -
AstraZeneca, the UK drug maker, hit the euro market on Wednesday after printing $7bn across the Atlantic a day earlier. The borrower is building up funds to pay for its $39bn acquisition of US rival Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
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Europe’s high grade corporate borrowers piled into the bond market on Wednesday to sell debt before the public holiday weekend in the UK. Investors showed no signs of indigestion on one of the busiest days of the year so far.
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Hammerson, the UK property development company, launched a sustainability-linked bond through its Irish subsidiary on Wednesday, hoping to achieve a better cost of funds by printing a deal that was eligible for ECB buying. The still-nascent SLB market gave few comparables for the trade, leaving investors needing a range of metrics to try and determine fair value.
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A Dutch court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell is partly responsible for climate change and must reduce its global carbon emissions — including those caused when customers burn its products — by 45% from 2019 levels by 2030. If the ruling is sustained on appeal it would cause a seismic shift in the balance of power on climate change, with huge implications for financial markets.
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Gas and heating components manufacturer SIT Group has sold a €40m private placement to Pricoa, which has margins tied to the Italian company’s sustainability.
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