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Some investors are optimistic that Italy’s borrowing costs can recover following a rapid rise over the last few days as the spending plans of its likely new government came to light. But they also warned that the picture is rapidly changing — as evidenced by the apparent push-back this week by the Italian president against the proposed candidate for prime minister. -
The European Investment Bank has printed a new Climate Awareness Bond — its sole euro green bond for 2018 — opting for an aggressive price and falling short of full subscription. A French agency will follow the supranational’s lead, mandating for a deal with the same tenor.
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After the Whit Monday holiday in Europe, Deutsche Telekom boldly reopened the corporate bond market. Having seen compatriot Bertelsmann pull a deal on Thursday, Europe’s largest telecoms provider showed no fear when it sold a four-tranche offering.
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Delaware-based chemicals group Chemours added to the surge of reverse Yankee issuers with a new euro deal this week, as sources report growing interest from non-European bond investors in the currency.
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The pipeline for this week is swelling, according to an SSA syndicate official, but the focus may shift from last week's emphasis on euros to dollars.
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European corporate bond market participants are hoping a public holiday on Monday will provide the market with a fillip when it reopens on Tuesday. There was a soft end to the prior week in both primary and secondary.
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Investors dumped BTPs this week as far from market-friendly plans emerged from talks this week between the Five Star Movement and the Northern League, which looked set to form a government as GlobalCapital went to press. But there were still some notes of optimism as Italy sold the latest line of its BTP Italia product with little fuss and bankers said BTP yields were still very far from crisis levels.
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A populist coalition poised to take power in Italy sent shudders across markets this week, with the concerns going well beyond BTPs and Italian corporates to spill into other countries and raise questions over the future of eurozone capital markets unity. Craig McGlashan, Jasper Cox and Sam Kerr report.
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The euro market got off to a fine start this week as a supranational rarely seen in euros appeared at five years and a mainstay of the market pulled off another successful trade. But later in the week, cracks began to show.
