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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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The South African equity market got the trade it had been waiting for this week when Steinhoff International, the embattled retail conglomerate, sold a portion of its stake in Steinhoff Africa Retail, the African subsidiary it span off last year, to raise funds to reduce its debt. -
Three new retail listings this week marked the renaissance of Turkey's IPO market. But if trying to do three similar deals simultaneously wasn't hard enough work, they come just as the country's economic prospects and the part it plays in the Syrian conflict are of growing concern for investors, writes Sam Kerr.
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Rusal bondholders are in a pickle. They have been told by the US Treasury that they have 60 days to dump the sanctioned Russian company’s bonds, but trading has halted, leaving them stuck with the debt. Investors are lost as to how to value the bonds in their portfolios and are scrambling to work out how they can legally continue to hold and mark them.
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Montenegro followed Egypt to the euro bond market this week, offering investors another chance to take on single-B risk in the currency.
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The State of Qatar had taken orders of $32.5bn by lunchtime on Thursday, putting to bed any concerns that Saudi Arabia’s $11bn trade would cannibalise demand for its regional rival. In fact the strong performance of Saudi’s paper in the secondary market has helped boost support for Qatar’s trade, according to a banker on the deal.
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Hong Kong’s annual Rugby Sevens tournament has just ended, leaving bankers, executives and journalists nursing terrible hangovers and promising that next year will be different.
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