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Even the top-rated emerging markets corporates are mostly preferring to keep cash on hand rather than take advantage of a sharp fall in bond prices to repurchase debt cheaply, bond bankers said this week.
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A broken bond market is incapable of providing emerging markets issuers with funding as the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the oil crash run riot. Official institutions’ support is needed, after the asset class took a brutal beating this week, write Ross Lancaster and Oliver West. -
A strengthening dollar and continued volatility in the oil price on Thursday gave a further battering to emerging markets, increasing borrowers' vulnerability.
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Asia’s stock markets dived on Thursday as investors opted to hoard cash and global safe havens roiled with coronavirus-driven volatility. Amid the turmoil, however, equity capital markets bankers are trying to look ahead and are preparing for deals in the second half of the year. Jonathan Breen reports.
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A number of companies in Asia are understood to be following their European and US peers in drawing down revolving credit facilities as the rapid spread of Covid-19 bites. While this could pose some liquidity challenges in the loan market in the coming weeks, bankers are hoping the pain will be short-lived. Rashmi Kumar reports.
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Shandong Ruyi Technology Group has had an interesting month: firing its onshore ratings agency, missing an interest payment on a bond, and then promising to repay the money privately to avoid a public default. The actions have triggered worries that more cash-strapped companies will follow its example. Rebecca Feng reports.
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