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Corporate bond investors were treated to a relative feast of issuance on Wednesday following a meagre €850m of supply in the first two days of the week. A trio of higher beta names offered a variety of tenors and spreads for investors to choose from. -
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) has announced a dual tranche for its second trip to market for the year. The trade will come on the heels of a €1.4bn Agence Française de Développement (AFD) 10 year, which managed to cut 4bp from its spread between guidance and launch.
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Spain’s 10 year benchmark weighed in at €10bn on Tuesday — its largest deal in four years — and drew an astonishing book of over €43bn.
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On Tuesday, Italgas was the latest issuer to benefit from the lack of corporate bond supply so far in 2018. Investors, starved of paper, have caused order books to be multiple times oversubscribed and issuers have benefitted from tight pricing as a result.
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Spain, fresh from an upgrade to its Fitch credit rating, hit screens on Monday to announce a new 10 year euro benchmark. The sovereign will share the market with Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
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Only a single issuer came to market in euros on Thursday. In what a banker away from the deal referred to as “good traffic control”, Austria had the market to itself for a €4bn 10 year.
