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Secondary market selling of private bonds may be wreaking havoc with the primary market for public debt but the trades were still the right thing to do
Sovereign's $3bn deal tightens well as Asian demand returns
The sovereign's public and private bonds of similar maturities are trading over 25bp apart
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Vodafone's agreed takeover of Liberty Global's Unitymedia business in Germany and assets in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania for an enterprise value of €18.2bn could set off a wave of other deals in Europe's telecoms market, especially in the UK.
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The global pressure on emerging markets, triggered by a multitude of factors but most obviously a rapidly strengthening dollar, has been felt across the asset class. The most notable casualty in equities has been Turkey, which at the beginning of 2018 was expected to produce a bumper crop of IPOs this year. -
Investors in emerging market assets have been caught short in the past fortnight, with many wrongly positioned for the rising dollar. The sharp fall in EM asset prices has caught many by surprise, but if two weeks of pain has taught them anything, it is that passive investing is not a good idea.
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The Republic of Ghana was set to price its dollar dual tranche bond as GlobalCapital went to press on Thursday evening, having picked a phenomenal day for a deal, with the bonds of several African sovereigns bouncing two points.
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The last two weeks have been the toughest in recent memory for emerging market bond investors who have seen their assets in local currencies and dollars alike take a hammering amid the collapse in the Argentine peso and Turkish lira.
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There is a stereotype of the staid investment banker, taking himself far too seriously, as obsessed with the numbers as he is with his perfectly-coiffed haircut. But the truth is that the industry attracts its fair share of oddballs, rogues and plain old geeks.
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