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Bond exchanges and tender offers are rising in popularity among Asian issuers, as funding officials race to beat a mountain of maturities next year. Addison Gong reports. -
Berry Global, the US plastic packaging maker, will raise bonds to finance its purchase of UK plastics maker RPC Group, it said on Wednesday. The debt raising will feature $3bn of senior secured notes in two tranches. This marks the end of leveraged finance bankers' hopes that the auction of RPC would deliver substantial new money supply to the European market.
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Chinese issuers kept up their bond issuances on Wednesday, despite having to contend with the backdrop of the US-China trade war. Three borrowers raised a combined $840m, proving that investors are still buying a range of credits.
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The looming US-China trade war is stalking European corporate credit markets, though it has not yet made a full-on assault on confidence. Investment grade bond players blamed a quiet start to the week on it, and it seems now to be finally being noticed in high yield land, where opportunistic issues have dried up.
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Thanks to a lawsuit in the US, the question of whether leveraged loans are securities or not appears to be on the table. The challenge points to a gap in the regulation of modern capital markets that needs filling in.
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Long-dated dollar bonds issued by Indonesian companies have been taking a beating in the secondary market, with the country's high yield sector also expected to suffer from the negative impact of an ongoing trade war between two of the world's biggest economies.
