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Earnings blackouts and higher funding costs to supress April supply
◆ French firm raises €1bn with week's only deal so fair ◆ Books more than six times covered at close ◆ Slim premium offered — if any
Markets have behaved in an 'orderly fashion', says global fixed income head in EMEA
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Moody's holds not a single positive outlook for any non-financial industry sector for the first time in more than a decade as the coronavirus pandemic hammers global business. -
Commerzbank expects its corporate division to remain under pressure from the coronavirus crisis in the second half of the year, after a second quarter where international firms rushed to take out debt products but the bank was stung by a large single provision, understood to relate to disgraced payments company, Wirecard.
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Companies across Europe are shifting their aspirations from surviving the coronavirus pandemic to making the most of the economic opportunities it may present. Both loan and bond bankers are seeing more requests to help clients fund M&A. In the last few weeks three companies have signed loans linked to acquisitions, and there are expected to be more after the summer.
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Housing 21, a UK housing association, is looking to tap its November 2049 notes for an expected £100m, as bond market participants say that the Covid-19 economic crisis has made housing associations an attractive option for high grade sterling investment.
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Chinese local government financing vehicle (LGFV) Yiwu State-owned Capital Operation Co replicated its peers’ recent bond pricing success, to raise $500m with a 65bp price tightening during bookbuilding.
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Canny loans bankers have devised a social revolving credit facility structure that links a portion of a borrower’s debt directly to Covid-19 era relief spending. It’s a structure that won’t take the markets by storm on what is likely the eve of global recession but ESG-minded investors should still push hard for the companies they own to consider this new type of funding.
