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Ford Motor Credit Co, the financial services arm of US motor company Ford announced a dual tranche corporate bond deal on Monday comprising two floating rate notes. -
The ebb and flow of secondary markets and the stop-start effect of the Thanksgiving holiday on this week’s new issuance are prompting a range of views from syndicate managers as to just how long the market will remain open in 2017.
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American fast food chain operator McDonald’s on Tuesday sold the sixth reverse Yankee deal in a month, issuing a long six year tranche and a 12 year tranche to raise €1.2bn.
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Property has been one of the most favoured sectors in the corporate bond market in 2017 and this week saw three more deals. Germany’s TLG Immobilien and Spain’s Inmobiliaria Colonial added €1.2bn to the year’s supply in euros, while UK student accommodation provider Liberty Living sold a £500m ($665.3m) deal.
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French toll road operator Holding d’Infrastructures de Transport paid a hefty premium last Friday as it sold a dual tranche bond to help refinance its March 2018 note. The Baa3 rated subsidiary of Spanish infrastructure company Abertis suffered from the uncertainty surrounding a takeover of its parent company.
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Once the unwavering bastion of eurozone strength, stable through an otherwise turbulent year, the German government managed to unsettle the euro market this week. The collapse of the German coalition talks at the weekend forced one SSA borrower to adjust its plans on the fly and was partly blamed for two borrowers’ failure to fill their order books. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Two of the three SSA euro syndications this week found the market tough going, relying on lead managers to fill orderbooks. Some SSA bankers lay the blame, in part, on the collapse in German government coalition talks at the weekend.
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Spanish cash management and logistics company Prosegur Cash completed its roadshow for a benchmark new issue on Wednesday, and while the issuer chose not to bring its deal to market on Thursday, it may do so on Friday.
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Once US Thanksgiving has passed, investment grade corporate bond bankers normally look to execute their last deals of the year before spending their days deciding what to buy their nearest and dearest for Christmas.
