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French utilities firm to jump into Aussie dollars with hybrid and senior bonds
◆ UK utility prints €1.3bn dual trancher ◆ Issuer skips guidance as it masses orders north of €10bn ◆ Longer call leg draws stronger demand
◆ Fourth Reverse Yankee hybrid in euros this year ◆ US utility tightens hard on strong demand ◆ American Tower clears €750m trade with little concession
Energy companies took advantage of record tight spreads as they joined a ‘perfect storm’ of dollar funding
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Spanish telecoms provider Telefónica latched onto the swell of investor demand for riskier corners of the European investment grade corporate bond market on Thursday as it issued a €1bn hybrid bond. -
A lacklustre year for equity capital markets suddenly grew more interesting on Monday, when Bayer announced the details of a $62bn bid for Monsanto. It got still more interesting on Tuesday, when the US agribusiness group rejected the offer as “incomplete and financially inadequate”.
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Monsanto has rejected Bayer’s all-cash bid of a $62bn enterprise value as “incomplete and financially inadequate”, but left the door open to an improved offer.
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Bayer could be preparing to issue one of the five biggest rights issues ever, and the largest by a non-bank company, as part of the financing for its $62bn bid for Monsanto, the US agricultural chemicals and bio-engineering business.
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Idiosyncratic risk in the European corporate hybrid bond sector has caused new issuance to stall and credit spreads to rise.
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The Singapore dollar bond market has been dominated by financial and corporate subordinated debt in recent weeks with transactions worth S$2.64bn ($1.9bn) sold since the start of May. While the swap driven nature of the demand means issuance will be patchy, bankers believe this trend could run for some time, writes Rev Hui.
