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Cracks emerge in underlying quality as banks appear to teeter further into cautiousness
Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
The sovereign priced inside paper of similar maturity from Brazil and Colombia
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The shock of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has forced some rapid thinking among capital markets participants. Almost the first impact has been on travel. -
Workers of the world’s capital markets united this week in efforts to keep the funding flowing as the threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus advances. Roadshows, mandate pitches and even quotidian office life faced emergency changes as embattled financiers braced themselves and their businesses for virus disruption.
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The worsening of the Covid-19 outbreak has battered equity prices and sent investors scurrying for the safety of core government bonds. Most primary markets are all but shuttered, and investors are praying for central banks to provide a glimmer of hope.
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Market participants should be braced for political volatility as the world comes close to experiencing a pandemic.
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The Arab Republic of Egypt is set to become the first Middle East or North African sovereign to sell a green bond. But there are no “obvious suspects” for a follow-on deal, according to those in the market. While green bond issuance is taking root among the region's other borrower classes, the format has yet to grasp the attention of governments for whom, some say, the challenge of being greener is proving too great, writes Mariam Meskin.
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Shares in NMC Health, the London-listed United Arab Emirates hospitals operator, have been suspended. Its convertible bonds have fallen to around 50 cents on the dollar, after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) placed it under investigation and the company fired its chief executive.
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