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◆ No bitter unrated taste as book grows throughout pricing ◆ Investors keen for household unrated names ◆ Price discovery needed
◆ Stellantis sees stronger demand for shorter leg of €1.25bn dual trancher ◆ RCI Banque prices €750m 5.2 year tightly ◆ Ford finds demand in short end sterling
◆ Big move for AkzoNobel, three months after last trade struggled ◆ Orders peak near nine times the deal size ◆ Deal comes through fair value
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Royal Dutch Shell was on the receiving end of a landmark court ruling last week that will compel the company to take profound climate change mitigation action. Not that you’d know from Shell’s bond curve. Time for fixed income investors to pull their heads out of the oil sand.
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Europe’s corporate bond market was again dominated by ESG trades on Tuesday but the influx of green and socially conscious deals in recent weeks means that investors have become increasingly picky about what they buy.
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As inflation fears spread through the bond market, demand has fallen, particularly at the long end of the curve. However, the SSA market defied this trend last week with borrowers seeking duration, with the average maturity of a deal around 13 years. Similarly, the corporate market stretched its averaged maturity to 12 years, from just 7.4 years the week before.
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TDR Capital is injecting £100m in equity and a £250m payment-in-kind financing to recapitalise gym chain David Lloyd Leisure, as part of a broad-based refinancing including the firm’s first public high yield bond issue. Barclays, which has done most of TDR's recent deals, is running the £900m-equivalent bond, announced on Tuesday morning.
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Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Development Group Co, a local government financing vehicle from China's Shandong province, printed a $200m deal this week as it prepares to tackle an imminent bond maturity.
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Two Chinese real estate borrowers, Agile Group Holdings and Datang Group Holdings, hit the dollar debt market on Monday.
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