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French shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco said in December it planned to sell around €2bn of bonds to refinance the bridge loan it has taken on to fund its $15.7bn acquisition of its Australian peer Westfield Corp. On Monday, it brought the deal to market and received reassuring demand. -
German building materials company HeidelbergCement sold its first trade of 2018, replicating its last deal of 2017. It also priced the new deal at a spread close to that it paid in 2017.
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Issuers from across the SSA galaxy enjoyed smoothly executed deals all along the euro curve, including one touching down in the currency for the first time.
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A pair of sovereigns entered the euro market this week, both returning to the long end of the curve for the first time in three years and drawing large books.
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The investment grade corporate euro bond market had shown a steady return to strength after Easter. It was then tested by eight deals in two days, but showed it was capable of absorbing such volume, and tighter spreads may even be on the cards as French aerospace and defence company Thales achieved the lowest new issue premiums for a month.
