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  • South African property investment company Growthpoint postponed a euro denominated five year note on Wednesday suggesting that even high quality credits from the country will struggle to do deals as investors turn increasingly negative on it.
  • Equity investors have turned on what was once a darling retail stock in a dramatic two day sell-off which has rocked the company and South Africa to its core.
  • The shocking fall from grace this week of Steinhoff International, the South African retail group, is causing pain for many in the equity-linked debt market, where it has issued €2.7bn of bonds. The potentially unsound nature of its earnings caused an 80% collapse in its share price this week, and has triggered a fast transfer of its convertibles into specialist hands.
  • Abu Dhabi National Energy Co, known as Taqa, has invited banks to join a $1.25bn syndicated loan, which it plans as a bridge to a bond issue.
  • Europe looks ripe for a wave of takeovers by Chinese companies in 2018, as the country becomes more willing to countenance dealmaking overseas after its recent pullback.
  • Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, the Abu Dhabi state-owned oil company, is set to price the initial public offering of its distribution arm on Friday, in a deal worth Dh3.125bn ($851m), after revising guidance to the lower half of the range.