Middle East Bonds
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The Sultunate of Oman is starting the roadshow for its dollar benchmark 144A/Reg S bond on Thursday. -
Qatar made history on Wednesday by printing the largest ever bond from a CEEMEA borrower. The triple tranche $9bn trade surpassed size expectations, and while initial teething problems saw the five and 10 year tranches soften in secondaries, rival bankers deemed the pricing a triumph.
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Middle East bond markets are red hot with $24bn of deals printed so far in 2016 — the highest ever year to date level. However, while Qatar's triple-tranche $9bn jumbo drew a book of $23bn and proved there is abundant demand for high quality GCC borrowers, signs of fatigue are starting to play out in the poor secondary trading performance of some of this week’s other new issues. Virginia Furness reports.
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Gulf Co-operation Council bond issuance hit a year-to-date record this week, boosted by the whopping $9bn bond from Qatar. Emerging markets bankers are right to be nervous about how much more investors can take but finding out need not be traumatic.
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State of Qatar made history by printing the largest ever deal from a CEEMEA borrower on Wednesday. The triple-tranche $9bn jumbo trade surpassed size expectations and proved that demand is abundant for the strong pipeline of Gulf issuers.
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The order books on Qatar’s triple tranche offering on Wednesday morning have been gathering serious momentum leading emerging markets bankers away from the deal to assess the bond was being priced to maximise size.
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High profile sovereign bonds have dominated CEEMEA markets so far this week. Russia returned on Tuesday with its first deal since 2013, but not with the international slam-dunk the sovereign was hoping for. Elsewhere Qatar started book building for its long-awaited bond.
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Noor Bank made its additional tier one (AT1) debut on Tuesday, raising $500m with a perpetual sukuk.
