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A slow destruction of misallocated investment is more likely than a sudden stop
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Buzzi Unicem has returned to the Schuldschein market, looking for at least €100m of debt in four maturities. The pricing levels are tighter than on the Italian cement and concrete group’s debut Schuldschein in 2017. Bankers thought this was thanks to investors' growing familiarity with the borrower, as well as a rating upgrade from Standard & Poor's. -
Swedish real estate company Vasakronan last week became the first issuer to print a fully digitally issued bond. The 15 year Australian dollar note was also the first paper to be wholly processed on the Origin fintech platform.
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Porsche AG, maker of Porsche sports cars, has returned to the Schuldschein market, on the hunt for funds for research and development into electric cars, among other green projects.
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Forth Ports, the port operator with headquarters in Edinburgh, is marketing prospective US private placements this week.
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A corner of Europe’s capital markets that up to now has offered both stability and growth — German housing companies — has been thrown into turmoil by a five year rent freeze on all housing, proposed by the State of Berlin, write Silas Brown, Aidan Gregory and Jon Hay.
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Issuance in Swedish kronor picked up this week, with three corporate issuers placing Skr6.28bn ($667.9m) across four private placements, as issuers looked to get in ahead of the midsummer break. In euros, a Dutch and French agency both placed paper, while protests in Hong Kong caused yields to spike in offshore Chinese renminbi and Hong Kong dollars.
