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◆ Why emerging market issuers are doing less in dollars ◆ Republic of Congo located between rock and hard place ◆ The GlobalCapital Podcast was brought to you by the numbers 17, 100 and the whole Alphabet
The yield was ultra high but Congo had little room to manoeuvre
Benin showed Islamic issuance is a viable market for sub-Saharan African sovereigns
Observers have questioned why the country is issuing debt at this price
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  • Each of the CEEMEA bonds priced on Thursday was trading up in the secondary market on Friday morning. Russian paper shows little signs of recovering from its beating, but the wider market has remained largely immune to the US sanctions imposed on Wednesday.
  • Europe's IPO market closed for the summer on Friday, as the last major two deals were priced. Investor fatigue and early holidays contributed to lower pricing than bankers had hoped.
  • Nigeria is reopening outstanding Naira bonds and has picked banks for a roadshow starting on July 21.
  • Luxembourg’s KBL Bankers returned as a primary dealer for the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp’s seventh sukuk, as the company reissued its rolling $860m of three-month commercial paper on Thursday.
  • The South African sovereign and First Bank of Nigeria opted to open books on Thursday despite coinciding with a wide scale sell-off in Russian risk. Both issuers priced successful deals on the same day, although debt bankers away from the South African bond wondered whether the sovereign should have postponed it.
  • Cote d'Ivoire took another step on the road to recovery with a hugely successful $750m 10 year bond this week. Investors, analysts and syndicate officials all had their own ideas on pricing. But in the end the leads priced the deal some 50bp tighter than most investors had asked for and still watched the bond trade up in the secondary market.