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The Republic of Peru has approved a further $4bn of debt issuance to finance coronavirus spending just two weeks after tapping bond markets for $3bn. -
Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro (Metro) could become the second Chilean government-linked issuer to offer bonds in the international market in less than a week, as investors say that the corporate market is likely to remain the preserve of the best-rated issuers.
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With Covid-19 measures expected to add $4bn to Chile’s debt issuance this year, the sovereign is still to define the source of another $4.5bn of funding, according to the country’s head of international finance.
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While emerging market bond investors are spending their days in the Covid-19 crisis battling with poor liquidity, cash calls from end investors, and even the odd new issue, debt relief has remained a threat, albeit only a vague one. But at policy level the topic is of growing importance, and what began as a matter for official institution creditors took a step closer to embroiling the private sector this week. Ross Lancaster, Phil Thornton and Oliver West report.
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When Ecopetrol, which has been talking about bringing a bond for a long time, chose to do so last Friday, after an oil price crash in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, it took the market aback. Fridays, after all, are not when any self-respecting Latin American bond issuer comes to the market. But there is nothing typical about Latin America’s primary markets these days.
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Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), the South American development bank, could follow fellow Lat Am multilateral Cabei into bond markets after mandating for an SEC-registered US dollar deal.
