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Investors maintain orders as issuers push tight, although some limits are appearing
◆ Canadian retail chain lands euro bond close to equivalent dollars ◆ Some concession needed for first new euro line in two years ◆ Minimal attrition as issuer pushes through 100bp barrier
◆ Vier Gas almost six times covered ◆ RCI Banque increases size ◆ Pair price with minimal concessions
Earnings blackouts and higher funding costs to supress April supply
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Swedish airline SAS needs Skr12.5bn (€1.2bn) of new funding to get through the coronavirus pandemic. The Swedish and Danish governments have pledged billions more to support it, on top of the revolving credit facility guarantees granted last month, but want “burden sharing” from financial stakeholders in SAS, including holders of its conventional and hybrid bonds. -
Europe’s corporate bond secondary market widened on Monday, amid a far sharper sell-off in equities, and bankers say a bump in cases of coronavirus in the US and China will dampen new issuance.
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Hong Kong power generator Castle Peak Power Co began marketing an energy transition bond on Monday morning, marking just the second transition bond to be sold in Asia.
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Thai Oil Public Co managed to raise $1bn from a dual-tranche bond by the ‘skin of its teeth’ on Thursday, tightening price guidance twice during bookbuilding to find the right groups of investors.
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Europe's corporate bond investors are clamouring for issuers to print higher risk bonds with borrowers proving happy to oblige, as money pumped into the market by the European Central Bank crushes spreads on top-rated, short and medium-dated debt ever tighter, and despite a clear display of pessimism from the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Mike Turner reports.
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Private debt markets in Europe have lost their sheen in the past few months. Having grown into attractive alternatives for companies looking to diversify from public and bank markets, the Schuldschein and US private placement markets were left by the wayside during the pandemic as borrowers went for quick cash instead.
