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Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war
Private bonds are now being offered in the open market wider than where public deals trade
Even as USTs stay near 5%, supply expected to pick up
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Local currency markets are proving attractive to both international investors and borrowers. Roubles in particular offer a pick-up in yield, but after swapping the proceeds into dollars, borrowers are able to achieve an excellent cost of funds. -
The US has ousted Turkey from the F-35 stealth fighter programme because the country has begun receiving components of the Russian S-400 missile system. Meanwhile, the central bank’s credibility is damaged and an interest rate decision is only a week away. Does the bond market care? It seems not.
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Asset managers are looking to the emerging markets as a hedge against a slowdown in the US and Europe.
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S&P Global’s China unit has issued its first domestic rating to ICBC Financial Leasing (ICBCFL), a unit of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. But bankers say that the rating agency has chosen an easy target and will need to move to lower quality names if it hopes to go further in the Mainland.
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It is sometimes said that Asia’s loan market lacks innovation. But this is just getting ridiculous.
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A subsidiary of Indonesian textile company Duniatex missed an interest payment on a $260m syndicated loan last week, causing the bond price of its sister company to collapse and bankers to wonder about the wider health of the sector. Pan Yue reports.
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