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Three public sector borrowers hit screens on Monday, mandating in a euro market buoyed by the defeat of National Front candidate Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French presidential election on Sunday. -
An enormous pipeline of euro paper has built up over the past few weeks as borrowers and investors wait, hoping that the result of Sunday’s presidential election in France will signal a return to business.
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The Greek government wants to return to the bond markets this year as soon as its latest round of bail-out negotiations ends — something that moved a step forward this week after the country agreed a deal with its creditors on a range of fiscal and structural reforms. But one look at where its outstanding debt is trading should make the government think twice before rushing back to the capital markets.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank tapped a 24 year line for €250m on Tuesday.
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Barclays’ global banking business saw a strong start to the year, but without the huge percentage increases seen at its peers. It’s the comparison quarter that made the difference — Barclays was stronger in the turbulent first quarter last year than many other investment banks.
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Emmanuel Macron’s topping of the first round of the French presidential election last weekend drove the best euro funding conditions for months. Public sector borrowers duly piled into the primary market. With more political risk ahead, many are racing to be 75% done for the year by summer, writes Craig McGlashan.
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Last week's sole benchmark, a KfW outing in five year euros, impressed the GC BondMarker voters, who awarded it high grades in all categories. But how did it compare with KfW's other offerings this year?
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Elation in the euro markets after the first round of the French presidential election at the weekend continues to wash over the public sector bond markets, with the Province of Quebec selling its largest ever benchmark in the currency and Spain printing €5bn of inflation-linked paper.
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The European Financial Stability Facility on Tuesday priced a dual tranche deal that bankers are describing as possibly its greatest ever, laying to rest some of its other long dated trades this year that drew criticism. A pair of other issuers have also hit screens in a euro market enjoying what one syndicate head called “probably the best conditions we’ve seen in months”.
