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The bond markets have been muted in their response to last week’s equity market volatility. Corporate bond investors did not suffer the heavy losses or wild intraday swings their equity peers had endured, leaving them to focus back on fundamentals. -
The European Central Bank’s corporate sector purchase programme maintained its rate of purchasing in the first six weeks of 2018, which helped support spreads through the recent period of volatility in global markets.
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The Autonomous Community of Madrid on Tuesday printed its largest ever sustainable bond — and its biggest bond of any kind in three years — with a trade that was double the size of its SRI debut last year. Bankers away from the trade hailed the “excellent” result, with one saying it was “probably as good a result as the issuer could have hoped for”.
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Greece’s return to capital markets last week drew nothing but praise on the day, but its subsequent performance in the secondary market has left something to be desired, said bankers.
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The Autonomous Community of Madrid is prepping its second ever sustainable benchmark, after mandating banks on Monday.
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The corporate bond market has stayed away from the eye of this week’s equity market correction storm, so far. Despite the enhanced volatility, €5.75bn of corporate bonds were priced. While none of the nine tranches have given investors much performance yet, equally, none have yet really underperformed.
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The euro SSA market reacted with commendable calmness to the Dow Jones’s worst day in six years on Monday but moves in the secondary market on Thursday showed that “vol isn’t dead”, according to one head of SSA DCM.
