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Sweden has joined the throng of SSA borrowers making up for the dollar market's weak start to the year, bringing its first deal in the currency for over a year. It follows a trio of new issues that achieved tight spreads.

Rentenbank hit screens on Wednesday to announce a 10 year euro benchmark, joining a resurgence of long-dated euro supply.

CPI Property Group, which owns real estate in Berlin and central and eastern Europe, has mandated four banks for a roadshow to market its first dollar bond.

China property names continued their bombardment of the dollar market on Tuesday, as four more bond issuers raised a combined total of $2bn.

KfW returned to the euro market with a one day tap, joining France and Cyprus in the market and extending the its stellar run of new issues in euros.

Germany’s ElringKlinger has signed a €350m loan. The automotive supply company has swapped bilateral lines for syndicated lending as it looks to shore up its capital structure amid widespread upheaval in Europe’s vehicle industry.

ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has raised €1.5bn in the corporate bond market, despite downward pressure on its credit ratings as it prepares to spin off its capital goods business later this year.

Cifi Holdings (Group) Co returned to the bond market with a $300m transaction. The four year bond’s tight price stood in stark contrast to the two year notes Cifi paid up to sell in December.

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) became the latest issuers to enjoy a strong euro market this week, and there is more supply to come.

The US corporate new issuance calendar took a breather on Thursday after clocking up its busiest week of the year with $30bn of supply in just three days. Borrowers remained on the sidelines as investors digested the supply onslaught that brought bulging order books and tight pricing.

Deutsche Bank has pulled about $5.25bn equivalent of non-preferred senior funding out of the market in the past two weeks, stomaching higher funding costs than some of its peers. The bank’s treasurer told GlobalCapital this week that it was prudent to step into the market now, with the issuer having cut through half of its target for loss-absorbing debt issuance in 2019.

After a quiet start to February, property developers from China are making the most out of a liquid bond market, pricing dollar bonds way inside of initial guidance and still watching their bonds trade well in the aftermarket. The rush shows no signs of slowing down. Addison Gong reports.