Deutsche Bank
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Korea Expressway Corp made up for its recent disappointment in dollars with a tightly priced Swiss franc debut on Tuesday. -
A short window of issuance is open for borrowers with dollar benchmarks to do ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday next week that heralds the traditional close of the market.
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High-grade issuers swamped the dollar market in the early part of the week trying to get in before Alibaba’s debut $8bn offering on Thursday while expecting a deluge of M&A related financings.
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Fresenius Medical Care, the US subsidiary of German global healthcare group Fresenius, is closing books on a $4.2bn refinancing loan this week, offering margins at a level more familiar to investment grade borrowers than those in the double-B pocket.
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Turbulence hit a subordinated debt market that seemed to be about to hit its stride this week, as deals from Deutsche Bank and Erste Group slumped in the secondary market straight after sale.
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Hapag-Lloyd, the German container shipping company, jumped into the high yield bond market on Thursday for a drive-by sale of a €250m bond, to refinance a deal maturing next year.
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Belden, the US cable maker, has tapped its 2023 bond for €200m, triggering a one notch downgrade by Moody's to Ba2 — but investors shrugged off the change.
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Alibaba was due to price its landmark bond in the early hours of Friday having launched final price guidance after Asian markets closed the night before. Bankers were staying tight lipped but investors said the deal could easily reach $10bn though debate was divided about what is fair value, write Lorraine Cushnie and Narae Kim.
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Metinvest has extended the deadline to accept the proposed bond exchange offer for its $500m 10.25% 2015s to 24 November. Bondholders of 76% of the notes have already accepted the offer.
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New York-listed Autohome, an online platform for car consumers, has wrapped up its follow-on offering of $361.25m. The deal received a positive reaction from the market, with the Chinese company’s stock climbing on the last day of bookbuilding — after having declined 7.7% since launch.
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Chongqing Yufu Assets Management managed to raise Rmb500m ($81m) through its debut bond in offshore renminbi on November 19 but struggled to get investor attention amid a raft of competing supply. As well as being its first outing in the international bond market it is also the first offshore issue from the Chongqing state-owned enterprise.
