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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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  • A survey of companies’ sensitivity to human rights casts big luxury goods companies like LVMH, Hermès and Prada in a bad light. Will investor pressure make them smarten up — or does their indifference suggest investors’ power is limited?
  • Equity and bond investors hoping for the Turkish central bank to step in and cool its overheating economy will be dismayed by President Erdogan’s pledge to influence its decisions. But they should not be surprised.
  • Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp clinched a $300m debut bond on Monday. But the gaming company’s notes looked cheap compared to other industry names in Macau, causing the yield to drop significantly in secondary trading on Tuesday.
  • Chinese technology company ZTE Corp appears to have been saved from the brink, after US President Donald Trump’s surprising intervention on Twitter. But although that may look like good news to ZTE’s investors, it should not be applauded by anyone else. The only thing predictable about the trade war between China and the US is quite how unpredictable it will be.
  • South Africa has opened books on its first sovereign trade this year and is looking to capitalise on goodwill towards president Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic transformation efforts. It hopes to offset the recent spread widening that has followed weakness in the rand — and in broader emerging markets — as a result of the stronger dollar.
  • A rare floating rate note from Peking University Founder Group on Monday stood out in a busy market, raising the question of whether the format can become popular among corporations.