Deutsche Bank
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The euro market for SSAs has returned to life in impressive style, but borrowers outside the ECB’s asset purchase programme are meeting with a chillier reception than their European counterparts. -
The dollar market had looked sluggish, particularly in comparison to the volumes churned out in euros, but Tuesday's $4.5bn two year from Asian Development Bank indicates the market is back in working order.
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The dollar bond market is gradually opening up, with two high quality public sector borrowers hitting screens on Monday for short dated deals. But with volatility still gripping the cross-currency basis swap market, European borrowers are still sticking to their home currency.
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CPPIB Capital hit the euro market on Monday, becoming the first SSA borrower not eligible for QE to access the market since the coronavirus outbreak shuttered the market. A fellow Canadian is set to follow suit.
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A string of well rated companies are preparing to issue bonds in the coming days, as syndicate desks are heartened by the continued ample demand from investors. Anheuser-Busch InBev, Volkswagen Financial Services and Thermo Fisher Scientific raised a total of €7.85bn in euros today, despite a rocky market.
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Mondi, the paper company based in the UK and Austria, raised €750m on Friday to refinance its €500m bond maturing in September, and put some extra cash by in case of trouble, with a bond issue that it went ahead with on a down day for equities, even as some other companies opted not to issue.
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The Inter-American Development Bank had the primary dollar public sector bond market to itself on Friday as it raised funding as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The euphoria that infused Europe’s corporate bond market from Tuesday to Thursday has cooled somewhat, although investors are still open for business. Bankers had said on Thursday that Friday would bring an interesting crop of deals, but there is only one, for paper company Mondi, rated Baa1/BBB+.
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As the dust settles on a thunderous week in the European corporate bond market that saw enormous order books and fat new premiums squeezed to nothing in one case, investors and bankers united in joy that the market was not just open again, but bursting with vigour. Central banks and governments had saved the day, they argued. Only a few are worrying about another lurch downwards, though this is more than likely.
