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Kuwait joins PP party
The Iran war has led to a flurry of private trades from the Gulf
Even if ceasefire succeeds, investors will still want a risk premium
Funding costs and new issue premiums are much higher than GCC issuers are used to
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Israel reopened the CEEMEA bond market in style on Wednesday, placing a rare 20 year euro bond, part of a €2.25bn dual tranche offering, which enabled the issuer to tap into new investors.
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Export Development Canada showed on Wednesday that despite some big deals this year in fives, there is still plenty of demand in the three year part of the dollar curve as it took the rare step of increasing a deal from its initial size target. The trade came as a trio of other dollar deals hit screens.
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Israel burst onto screens on Wednesday to open CEEMEA issuance for 2017. A popular name with investors, the 20bp premium offered at initial price thoughts seemed to go down well with the €6.5bn of orders submitted before lunch.
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Latin American issuers are leading the charge to primary markets this year so far in emerging market bonds but Wednesday saw the first CEEMEA issuer to open books as Israel tried a dual tranche 10 and 20 year trade.
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Gulf International Bank kicked off investor meetings this week for what could be the first publicly syndicated bond from the Middle East this year.
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Oman Oil and Bank Muscat are set to kick off a rash of loans in the sultanate in the coming months, with a number of state owned entities in discussion with lenders as the government looks to address a budget deficit.