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The sovereign's public and private bonds of similar maturities are trading over 25bp apart
◆ Gulf private placements bite back ◆ Bond new issue premiums rise ◆ CLOs catch a break
Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war
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South Africa raised $2bn in a difficult market on Tuesday, after US Treasuries widened unexpectedly at just the moment that the sovereign began marketing its new deal. The resulting sell-off in both South Africa’s curve and the rand meant that the issuer was not able to tighten pricing as much as had been anticipated, and the deal was smaller. -
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent the country’s sovereign bond yields flying this week as he vowed to take more responsibility for monetary policy if he wins next month’s elections. His comments prompted another sharp dive in the value of the Turkish lira — felt strongly by the country’s dollar debt issuers — as investors feared that even if the central bank does hike rates to defend the currency, the measure could be soon reversed. Francesca Young and Mike Turner report.
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Nordea issued a €1bn seven year bond on Thursday and attracted the highest subscription ratio of any euro covered bond of this size in 2018, while pricing with a tiny new issue premium. The execution offers further evidence that covered bonds are on a solid footing, in contrast with other sectors.
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Jeffrey Elkhoury, a CEEMEA DCM banker, has moved to Dubai to as part of Société Générale’s plan to grow in the Middle East.
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Two IPO applications in Hong Kong this week — one from a bitcoin hardware maker and the other a Chinese state-owned enterprise — highlighted the tussle for investor attention between old and new economy companies.
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Even the best laid plans often go awry. Despite hours of preparation and accounting for every worst case scenario, one young banker has learned that sometimes accidents just happen.
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