Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
Embattled utility makes final plea for court to sanction £3bn in emergency funding
Thames Water refinancing battle is an unedifying mess
Embattled utility asks judge to approve £3bn lifeline as creditor groups keep fighting
High yield issuers may be worried about market access, but some do not see them losing it
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
China Fortune Land Development tapped the bond market with a $530m two year deal, generating a final order book that was almost 10 times covered as it attempts to draw a line under a difficult 2018. -
Lease accounting changes known as IFRS 16 are rolling out through capital markets, with companies keen to reassure investors that, despite the new way of presenting their balance sheets, little has changed. But that’s not true for every firm and for some high yield issuers, the change represents a big loosening in covenant terms.
-
Shriram Transport Finance Co raised $400m from first dollar bond on Wednesday, becoming the first Indian high yield borrower to tap the offshore market in just over a year.
-
China’s Fujian Yango Group Co this week set out a dramatic rise in the coupon on an outstanding bond, in a bid to avoid an investor put in April. The move left market participants confused, with one calling it ‘very odd’.
-
Chinese high yield borrowers have come to the market in droves this week. That continued on Wednesday, when three deals raised a total of $1.275bn.
-
The investment grade European corporate bond market is wide open this week, with a swathe of jumbo new issues in euros. Boosted by a relative lack of supply in recent weeks, issuers are achieving good terms, particularly on longer dated issues, with Siemens issuing the first 20 year bond of the year so far. But the sterling market is quiet as investors wait for clarity on what form the UK’s exit from the European Union in March will take.
