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  • Venezuelan government-owned oil giant Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is likely to make a $71m interest payment on its 2020 notes, the only external bond on which the country has not yet defaulted.
  • Paraguay tapped bond investors on Thursday to finance its portion of the transcontinental road, raising $732.3m of amortising notes with an average life of 8.9 years and using a zero coupon structure to reflect project payment flows.
  • Growth is expected to slow across central and eastern Europe this year, but the region has a trick up its sleeve: a well developed local banking system that in the 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain has evolved into a self-sufficient source of financing for the region.
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  • The US was set to raise tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods, as GlobalCapital went to press, after talks between the two economic powers appeared to break down. Few people predicted it, most having prematurely stopped worrying about the US-China trade war and its impact on markets.
  • Global equity markets suffered their worst days of the year this week after an apparent breakdown in trade talks between the US and China, causing investors to sell and volatility to spike and possibly wrecking equity issuance plans, write Sam Kerr and Ross Lancaster.