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Monday saw five new corporate bond issues in Europe, but Ahold Delhaize was the only issuer to price a deal on Tuesday. Unlike the triple-B rated issuers on Monday however, the Dutch food retailer paid a single digit new issue premium.

Bank of Qingdao is whetting investors’ appetite with a dollar-denominated Basel III additional tier one bond, only the second from a Chinese city commercial bank, and coming ahead of an expected flood of supply from the country.

US chicken processor Pilgrim’s Pride Corp plans to fund its £1bn buyout of UK peer Moy Park with cash in hand, an extension of its term loans, and a new debt issue to repay a JBS subordinated note.

A new name for the SSA market hit screens on Monday, picking three banks to run a dollar five year transaction. The borrower will share the market with dollar trades from Dexia Crédit Local and Finland.

A full €2.3bn of bond offerings from seven borrowers hit screens on Monday in the European high yield bond market, following last week's more than €3bn of new bonds despite fund inflows turning negative.

Casino giant Wynn Resorts’ unit Wynn Macau is readying a new dollar bond with an eye to fully redeeming one of its outstanding notes, also announcing a tender offer for the 2021s.

Euro corporate bond issuance returned on Friday after a blank day due to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting. As the ECB’s president, Mario Draghi, said nothing to unsettle markets, US machinery maker John Deere and Italian oil and gas company Eni both priced deals in euros before the weekend, while Sweden's Akelius Property did the same in sterling.

SoftBank, the Japanese telecoms and technology group, received the highest speculative grade ratings for its potential new bond deal on Friday. It will aim at repeating its notable success in the European high yield market in 2015

ICICI Lombard General Insurance, India’s largest private sector non-life insurer, is set to launch its IPO on September 15, and is eyeing up to Rp57bn ($892.8m).

General syndication for Indian data analytics firm Mu Sigma’s debut loan is in its last leg, with three banks having committed so far.

The dollar high grade bond market returned to barnstorming form this week following the summer break with a Who’s Who of corporate America tapping the market.

The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €3bn of new bond offerings this week, including notes from Delaware’s Kronos International and California’s Equinix.