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The coronavirus pandemic has catapulted capital markets forward in time. Things thought impossible have come about — above all, a sustained flow of credit through a harsh economic downturn. But are the markets heading for utopia or dystopia?
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The corporate sector was not at the centre of the 2008-9 financial crisis — banks were. This time, it is companies of all kinds that are first in the financial markets to feel the stress of the coronavirus pandemic. Measures to control the infection have stopped many businesses’ revenues, completely and suddenly, and put others under severe strain. In such a situation, the quality of a company’s financial planning and management are revealed. Tested just as much are the financial networks that surround a company: its banking relationships and ability to finance itself in a variety of markets.
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Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?
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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. -
Hotel and casino operator Wynn Macau followed its gaming peers into the dollar bond market last Friday, but weaker market sentiment meant the borrower failed to tighten guidance on its $750m deal.
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Chinese property developer Sinic Holdings (Group) Co launched a two year dollar bond on Thursday after receiving international credit ratings this week for the first time.
