Currencies
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The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) has announced a dual tranche for its second trip to market for the year. The trade will come on the heels of a €1.4bn Agence Française de Développement (AFD) 10 year, which managed to cut 4bp from its spread between guidance and launch. -
Spain’s 10 year benchmark weighed in at €10bn on Tuesday — its largest deal in four years — and drew an astonishing book of over €43bn.
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On Tuesday, Italgas was the latest issuer to benefit from the lack of corporate bond supply so far in 2018. Investors, starved of paper, have caused order books to be multiple times oversubscribed and issuers have benefitted from tight pricing as a result.
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Spain, fresh from an upgrade to its Fitch credit rating, hit screens on Monday to announce a new 10 year euro benchmark. The sovereign will share the market with Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
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Kangaroo trades from KommuneKredit and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) suggest long end demand will hold pace in the Australian dollar market this week. This comes despite a spate of bad weather causing transport disruption in Tokyo, where many key investors in the market are based.
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Westpac raised Swiss franc bonds on Monday, reaffirming the idea that financial institutions are best placed to act opportunistically in the Swiss market this year.
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Crédito Real, a Mexican consumer finance company, is set to debut in the Swiss franc bond market in the coming weeks.
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Germany's domestic central bank said this week that it would start buying renminbi assets. Andreas Dombret, a member of the board at the Bundesbank, indicated to GlobalRMB that the central bank — like others in the developed markets — would follow the European Central Bank’s small initial allocation to the currency.
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