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◆ Deal spans euros, sterling and dollars ◆ Wide range of US TMT comps used ◆ Slim premiums needed for euro tranches
◆ Telecoms firm takes €1.5bn ◆ Some premium needed at the long end ◆ Demand highest for shortest tranche
◆ Japanese firm guides debut euro deal tight ◆ Endeavour attracts strong demand ◆ Sales follow multi-day marketing exercises
Geopolitics takes a back seat as earnings season weighs on euro corporate supply
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  • Spain’s Red Eléctrica Corporación has hired banks to run a series of fixed income investor calls for a debut five year senior unsecured deal, in the first European corporate roadshow since stringent social distancing measures were implemented across the continent.
  • The primary corporate bond market in Europe threw up another blistering day on Wednesday, with seven issuers on screens by mid-morning, bringing the number of deals so far this week to 18, though bond syndicate desks are hesitant to compare this crisis market with the record-breaking issuance in 2009.
  • The loans market has been one part of the capital markets that has perhaps unsurprisingly taken to working from home easier than most. Some loans bankers even see a world after the pandemic where one or two days a week working out of the office becomes the norm.
  • Whitbread, the UK hotel and restaurant company behind Premier Inn, has amended a clause in its debt documentation which could have left it liable for technical default. One source said several companies may have to go through a similar amendment process.
  • Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, opened books for a three tranche bond issue on Tuesday, just over a week after raising €15bn from banks, on the assumption, its CFO said then, that there would be "no issuance in capital markets, such as commercial paper".
  • A string of well rated companies are preparing to issue bonds in the coming days, as syndicate desks are heartened by the continued ample demand from investors. Anheuser-Busch InBev, Volkswagen Financial Services and Thermo Fisher Scientific raised a total of €7.85bn in euros today, despite a rocky market.