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Bankers love to advise their clients to look at the bigger picture and print now, for fear that that in just a few weeks or months, they could be facing a much tougher time. So the chorus of DCM officials criticising Russia for its timing in selling a €1bn seven year bond this week is more than a little hypocritical.
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Fears that the Russian Federation's €1bn bond issue would only find demand domestically seem to have been assuaged as a source close to the deal said well over half the deal was sold to international investors. That source also denied the deal was in any way designed to bait the West, and said its timing was simply a matter of wanting to get ahead of worsening market conditions. -
A Russia euro-denominated bond has taken investors by surprise this week, as emerging markets issuers seem to be taking their last gasps in the bond market this year.
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Russia is doing it again — for the second time this year it has picked yet another politically unpalatable week to print a sovereign bond. It seems to be sticking a middle finger up to the west as it rolls around in cash and shows off the access the country has to capital markets. But if that was the motivation behind this issue, it has not accomplished its goals.
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The Federation of Russia is returning to the bond markets for the first time since a set of US sanctions in April sent the country’s bond trading into a tailspin. But despite books for the bond already being in excess of €1bn, several bankers away from the deal are describing it as a “political statement” rather than a well thought out trade, and are heavily criticising the timing and choice of euros for the note.
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Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the Kazakh state-owned rail company, sold Sfr150m five year Swiss franc bonds on Tuesday, in choppy market conditions.
