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Secondary market selling of private bonds may be wreaking havoc with the primary market for public debt but the trades were still the right thing to do
Sovereign's $3bn deal tightens well as Asian demand returns
The sovereign's public and private bonds of similar maturities are trading over 25bp apart

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