Currencies
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GDP has bounced back in Japan, but the country faces some stubborn problems, some long-standing — such as low inflation, consumption tax rollout and an ageing population — and some new, including an increasingly protectionist US. Philip Moore reports. -
Japan’s investors are hungry for yield. The likes of the Government Pension Investment Fund and the country’s regional banks, are going farther afield and widening their scope to include emerging markets as they hunt for returns. Jonathan Breen reports.
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Kommuninvest has increased its funding needs for the year, as it prepares for the final quarter.
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European corporate bond market participants are expecting a quieter week of issuance following two of the strongest weeks of 2018, but there is still plenty of opportunity among the various public holidays.
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Vakifbank has sold the first ever domestically placed AT1, raising TL5bn ($828.5m) with a perpetual non call five year private placement. An investor away from the deal said it was bought by a single, government linked investor.
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The Italian cabinet has agreed upon a budget deficit target of 2.4% of GDP for the next three years, rejecting the finance minister’s 1.6% target proposal, causing Italian assets to sell off.
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Philippine food and beverage producer and distributor Universal Robina Corp is gauging appetite among banks for a NZ$420m ($278m) loan to refinance an old borrowing used to back the acquisition of New Zealand’s Griffin’s Foods.
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Negotiations over Italy’s 2019 budget deficit looked set to go down to the wire as GlobalCapital went to press on Thursday night, with the outcome likely to have a large bearing on the sovereign’s future issuance costs.
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Unédic has decided against a further benchmark bond this year, in a further sign of the slowly diminishing funding programme of the French state employment agency.
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Sulzer sold Sfr460m ($470.6m) of Swiss franc bonds on Thursday, just months after the Swiss maker of industrial machinery raised Sfr400m across two and five years. This makes it the largest triple-B issuer of Swiss franc bonds so far this year.
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Public sector borrowers snapped up cut price deals in the private markets this week, helping to quell trades in the benchmark sector.
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