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Energy companies took advantage of record tight spreads as they joined a ‘perfect storm’ of dollar funding
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Amazon’s Swiss debut and Alphabet’s first yen deal jolted debt markets this week
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond market had a distinctly Spanish flavour on Tuesday as Cellnex and Merlin Properties issued. Some analysts predict that the healthy earnings season might mean a 15% rise in bond issuance from the European market. -
Deutsche Bank held a three hour “deepdive” into its sustainability actions for clients, investors, the press and NGOs last week, with its CEO Christian Sewing and all its business heads. It coincided with an array of announcements, which even earned a favourable comment from Moody’s, including that Deutsche is accelerating its €200bn sustainable financing target. But those hoping for more detail on how Deutsche will decarbonise its financing were disappointed.
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Investors in Europe's high grade corporate bond market became increasingly selective last week. Average new issue premium shot up to almost 11bp from minus 2bp the week before. The move gave some insight as to which sectors of the economy investors see the pandemic recovery taking place in.
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Polish synthetic rubber group Synthos announced a €500m high yield bond on Tuesday, following its recent agreement to buy two specialist rubber businesses from Trinseo for $449m. It will fund the acquisition through cash but it launched the new bond to pay down its existing term loan and put in place a more flexible capital structure, including an increased €500m revolving credit facility.
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Shipping group Seaspan has issued $500m of sustainability-linked private placement debt, in the largest ESG-linked transaction to hit the market so far.
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Three Chinese borrowers and one Hong Kong issuer hit the international bond market on Monday, getting ahead of a pick-up in deal flow expected in the rest of the week.
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