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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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In the past, some investors were able to draw a line dividing the Russian businesses in which they parked their cash from Vladimir Putin’s government, despite what some have called a “feudal” hierarchy in the country. Last week’s US sanctions obliterated that line. -
The decision by the US Treasury last week to designate a number of Russian oligarchs and companies as sanctioned entities, in an effort to curb the country’s “worldwide malign activity”, has transformed investor sentiment and led to buyers fleeing Russia across debt and equities, write Sam Kerr and Francesca Young.
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Loans bankers are struggling to digest the implications of the new round of US sanctions on Russian oligarchs and companies, announced by the Treasury on April 6.
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DCM bankers have seen an evaporation of their Russian bond business this week reminiscent of 2014 when US and EU financial sanctions were first put in place against the country. Fears of further sanctions have meant that the whole Russian bond market is under scrutiny, and pressure.
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Risky assets are often beholden to perceptions of geopolitical risk, though in recent times that has been a minor factor in price movements. Perhaps this dynamic is about to change.
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