Europe
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Danone returned to the corporate bond market on Monday for the second time this year, with a €750m 8.5 year bond.
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CRH, the Irish building materials group, breezed through the new issue market on Wednesday with a deal of more than €1bn in euros and sterling.
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BMW has kept its bond issuance going apace in the past fortnight, since it returned to the market for the first time after the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal.
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US medical manufacturer Danaher priced a Sfr750m ($733.92m) triple tranche Swiss franc bond on Tuesday, the fourth largest corporate issuance in the currency this year.
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Military tension with Turkey sent Russia’s credit default swap spread wider this week but Russia’s apparent rapprochement with the west has seen investors treat Russian bonds in a much brighter light. -
Lloyds is set to exchange two old tier two instruments for new longer dated debt as it shifts towards holding company issuance in the wake of regulators' new emphasis on loss absorbing capital.
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The UK Debt Management Office must raise an additional £4.5bn to meet Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s revised spending as outlined in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement.
