Europe
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Shares in Telefonica, the Spanish communications giant, fell as much as 4.75% on Friday morning after the Spanish communications giant decided late on Thursday to scrap the IPO of Telxius, its telecoms infrastructure division, after it failed to attract enough demand from investors at an acceptable price. -
Turkey’s spreads have not recovered almost a week after Moody’s junked its credit rating, but bankers insist the sovereign and other Turkish borrowers will have access to the capital markets once stability has returned, even if borrowing costs rocket. Virginia Furness reports.
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Intense fear about Deutsche Bank’s capital position has once again threatened to mess with the best laid plans of Europe's banks. But the once bulging subordinated bond pipeline may not have emptied out entirely, and that suggests investors are still willing to buy bank bonds.
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In a week of firsts for the green bond market the Agence France Trésor (AFT) has outlined to GlobalCapital its plan to issue a bond next year in the hitherto untapped sovereign green bond market. Lewis McLellan and Craig McGlashan report.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) advised the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to adjust its policies away from foreign currency interventions and towards even deeper negative interest rates on Monday.
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There was a cheerful mood in European equity capital markets throughout September, despite clear risks of volatility on the horizon and the IPO of Telxius falling into difficulty. The health of the market was highlighted this week by the success of a €2.5bn capital raising by Steinhoff, the South African retail group.
