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Polish broadcaster TVN has launched a second attempt to refinance its 2017 bonds. The operator of 10 television channels plans to sell €430m of 2020 notes on Friday, after postponing a refi transaction in March.
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Investors in Nokia's debt and credit default swaps have welcomed the Finnish company's decision to sell its handset business to Microsoft and refocus the business on its recently rebranded Nokia Solutions & Networks business.
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The high yield market found its first post-summer issuer on Monday, when Continental, the German tyre maker, sold a €750m unsecured seven year bond. The crossover-rated issuer was seen as having paved the way for truer high yield names to come to market in September, even though its deal had a rather more investment grade ring to it, with its slim yield of 3.25%. -
Energias de Portugal took advantage of a vigorous corporate bond market this week to raise €750m of seven year debt at 5%. On what one banker described as “a peripheral day all round”, EDP was not the only issuer picking the last day before Friday's non-farm payroll data and a potential intervention in Syria to issue.
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Jumbo leveraged buyouts are no longer cool. That at least was the view of private equity executives attending the Euromoney LevInvest conference.
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Leveraged finance sponsors, borrowers and investors remain optimistic about the prospects for the European market in 2013, with speakers at the annual Euromoney Leveraged Finance conference hopeful about the market's capacity.
