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High yields and tight senior/sub spread fuel enthusiasm for issuance among investors and issuers
◆ German utilities firm debuts hybrid bonds weeks after first senior deal ◆ Books shrink as issuer pushes tight ◆ Trade lands inside peers
◆ Swisscom pushes senior/sub spread close to record tights ◆ Tennet Germany lines up debut hybrid ◆ Hybrid volumes run ahead of 2025
◆ Books sticky throughout execution ◆ Debut deal lands tight ◆ Commitment to single-A rating drives first time trade
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The grins on the faces of Werner Baumann and Hugh Grant, chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto, look genuine enough. The deal they have struck could catapult Baumann to head of the world’s leading agribusiness company and net Grant a reported $226m.
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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.
