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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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Amazon grabbed headlines by pouncing opportunistically into the market and pricing an $18.5bn bond this week that included a record tight spread over Treasuries on a sustainability-labelled two year note, but the bigger story was inflation fears skewing the curve steeper. -
Turkish companies and banks are succeeding in raising funds in international debt markets, even as the country strays near the edge of an economic precipice and experienced investors view Turkish risk with disdain.
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In the film 'Annie Hall', Woody Allen recounts two diners’ experience at a restaurant. “One of them says: ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says: ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’”
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E-commerce giant Amazon did the unthinkable this week and printed two year debt just 10bp wide of where investors could buy US Treasuries, the closest a company has ever got to US government debt. But with a high US inflation number sending a shockwave through markets days later, corporate and FIG credit markets are wondering whether they need to brace for a period of panic, write Tyler Davies and Mike Turner.
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Europe’s corporate bond market continued to pump out deals this week, despite the equities market licking its wounds after inflation fears turned stock prices into a sea of red.
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The UK's High Court delivered a ringing endorsement of the country's new restructuring regime this week in a landmark ruling on gym chain Virgin Active, showing that companies have a new route other than CVAs to cut their debts to landlords. Silas Brown and Owen Sanderson report.
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