Europe
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Corporate debt levels have increased to a point where a sudden shift in financial conditions could trigger disruptive capital outflows from emerging markets, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned finance ministers of the G20 group ahead of their summit beginning on Saturday. Christine Lagarde also said that the G20 should streamline the topics it concerned itself with. -
Bilfinger succeeded in issuing its €250m bond on Thursday, having had to pull it in October. The German industrial services group obtained a €600m book and was able to knock 37.5bp off the yield.
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The Federal Reserve is losing confidence in the US economy, global economic growth is flagging and Treasury yields are staggeringly low. Emerging market assets, meanwhile, are full of beans, as low rates and healthy risk appetite provide a magic combination for EM companies looking to raise capital. But the Fed is worried for a reason: there’s trouble ahead, write Lewis McLellan and Sam Kerr.
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Kepler Cheuvreux has become the go-to option for European banks looking to breathe life into failing their equity capital markets businesses. David Rothnie reports.
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Traton, Volkswagen’s heavy trucks division, is back on the market. The German auto giant relaunched the IPO after it was postponed in March owing to market volatility caused by trade tensions between the US and China. The deal is a key event for the equity capital markets in what has been a tricky year. It is important for those involved and for the wider market that it goes well. Yet conditions are not much better now, particularly for auto stocks, raising questions among investors about Traton’s timing, writes Aidan Gregory.
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Turkish banks have completed the first refi season of the year and, despite ongoing geopolitical issues including concerns about Turkey's purchase of S400 missiles from Russia, spreads in the secondary loan market have stabilised at slightly wider levels.
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Activity in the FIG sector in Swiss francs shifted from the international to the domestic market this week, with a little over Sfr850m ($857m) of new supply priced on Tuesday alone.
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Barclays Capital was looking to issue an additional tier one bond denominated in sterling on Thursday. The deal came after Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel issued a tier two instrument on Wednesday. Both took advantage of an upswing in market conditions for subordinated debt.
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KfW returned to the market on Wednesday for its second five year euro benchmark of the year. The €5bn 0% July 2024 note was issued with the lowest yield the German agency has ever paid.
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Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) broke a 16 year bond market hiatus with a five year dollar benchmark on Wednesday, raising $500m without paying a new issue premium.
