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Chinese property developer Yango Group Co priced a $150m tap of a recent two year bond on Thursday at a level that 62.5bp inside where the original bond landed less than a month ago. -
Tesco issued a new £400m six year bond, to fund a tender for bonds from eight older issues, and saw blow-out demand of £3.3bn, as the UK supermarket heads back towards investment grade status.
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Eir, the Irish telecoms company, has won strong demand and tight pricing for its combined bond and loan deal, allowing it to increase the size by another €100m — and pay out a larger dividend to its owner, groups controlled by French billionaire Xavier Niel. One of these groups, Iliad, has just emerged from a costly fight for rights to the 5G mobile spectrum in Italy, leading it to consider asset sales and other routes to raise cash.
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The European high yield market is experiencing a post-Easter resurrection, with six new issues announced after the London market returned to work on Tuesday. While some of these trades were the lower-rated acquisition bonds investors having been crying out for, the bond market is still largely stuck with deals too long, too tight, too risky or too large for first lien loans.
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Chinese local government debt issuance ramped up in the first quarter of 2019, with investors at home and abroad more enthusiastic about offshore bonds from local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). But they continue to be selective over which credits they buy — just as more deals are set to be launched, writes Addison Gong.
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Xinyuan Real Estate Co tapped its existing 2021 notes on Wednesday, adding $100m to the bonds.
