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SSA borrowers are streaming into the euro market, flooding the early part of the week with deals in an effort to secure funding before a slew of central bank meetings towards the end of the week. -
French vehicle parts supplier Valeo opened the corporate bond market alone this week when it sold a €600m seven year deal ahead of what one bank described as “the most important macro week of the year”.
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In a rare instance for CEE countries, Romania has printed 30 year dollar bonds.
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Quantitative easing, perhaps the single most important factor affecting bond prices over the past three years, could be coming to a long awaited end this year. Members of the European Central Bank governing council seemed to hint as much this week, causing govvie spreads to gap wider, writes Lewis McLellan.
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The Basque Government this week gave one of the best signs that investor worries about Italy’s political situation are unlikely to spill over to other countries as it printed a three times subscribed debut sustainability bond.
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NRW.Bank is preparing the next line in its green bond offering and hired banks on Thursday to run investor meetings next week.
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China Everbright Bank’s Hong Kong branch sold its first euro-denominated bond on Wednesday, part of a dual-currency floating rate transaction.
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The Federal State of Berlin printed a 15 year trade on Wednesday — its first €1bn bond since 2015, according to Dealogic. The trade was joined by a five year from Corporación Andina de Fomento.
