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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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  • Severn Trent, one of the UK’s three listed water companies, is looking to sell US private placements via its holding company, according to market sources. This is the first PP transaction from a UK water company since regulator Ofwat set out a new price review for the sector in December.
  • The rise of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Italy has tapped the brakes on the zooming high grade corporate bond primary market. Concerns over the spread of the illness have sent corporate spreads wider and rates tighter.
  • Three Chinese issuers visited the dollar bond market on Thursday, raising $1.2bn between them.
  • HSBC’s corporate finance staff have survived its restructuring largely unscathed, but the more ambitious among them will see the bank’s plans as a missed opportunity, writes David Rothnie. And with no answer yet on the identity of the next full-time CEO, the uncertainty is not over.
  • UK water utility companies have begun to test public and private debt markets for the first time since regulator Ofwat’s price review, and the deadline to appeal it, passed. The regulator’s decision will have large ramifications for the companies’ profiles in capital markets, writes Silas Brown.
  • US bond market tourists poured into high grade euros this week, where tiny concessions and a cheap overall cost of funding saw a string of successful trades.