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  • Gold Fields, a South Africa-headquartered mining company, sold its $1bn dual tranche bond on Wednesday at a spread that looked historically tight to comparable issuer, AngloGold. It attracted $3bn of orders despite national elections on the same day.
  • A number of Chinese real estate companies have returned to the offshore loan market after struggling to raise money in the second half of 2018. Although some bankers said they are more willing to lend than they were last year, they are also complaining about the size of some deals. Pan Yue reports.
  • Two African borrowers are set to hit the road for dollar bonds, extending a run of deals from the continent after a slow start to the year.
  • US president Donald Trump caused turmoil in global financial markets this week, after threatening to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods. But although Trump stirred up trouble, Chinese start-up Luckin Coffee was not put off from brewing a US IPO. With heavy-hitting institutional investors already piling in to the offering, the company looks on track to raise more than half a billion dollars. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Casino operator MGM China Holdings priced a larger-than-expected $1.5bn 144A/Reg S deal this week, and both tranches rallied in the secondary market despite a broader risk-off sentiment.
  • Headhunter Group, the Russian recruitment software firm, priced a $220m IPO on Wednesday in the first new listing from a Russian issuer since November 2017.