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Thermo Fisher Scientific, the US genetic testing and laboratory equipment company, has mandated banks for a multi-tranche Reverse Yankee bond in euros. It wants to print fresh debt along its curve out to 30 years.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has mandated banks for its first ever climate resilience bond, a new type of socially responsible product that aims to bring more focus on climate adaptation, rather than mitigation. It follows the recent publication of the Climate Resilience Principles by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

Besides the rare offering of a Chinese issuer on Wednesday, when Jin Jiang International issued a €500m bond, euro corporate bond investors had to make do with two other deals, from Telenor and Mondelez.

The £4bn take-private of UK aerospace and defence company Cobham by US private equity firm Advent, backed by a £2.5bn debt package, was threatened this week when business secretary Andrea Leadsom ordered an investigation into the deal just after 93% of the shareholders voted to accept the deal.

The investment grade bond market was noticeably cooler on Wednesday morning, compared to the €7.4bn and €5.4bn issued on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Though calling it quiet would be a disservice, with Wednesday’s issuers looking to borrow €2.5bn. Meanwhile, a bond deal for a fertiliser mine in Yorkshire disappeared down a black hole.

No less than three dual tranche corporate bond deals hit the market on Tuesday, as BMW, Abertis, and AbbVie jostled for the attention of investors with €2bn, €1.5bn and €1.4bn deals.

A brace of dollar deals came to the market on Tuesday, with Rentenbank and Council of Europe squeezing into the market for $1bn apiece amid high expectations of an impending rate cut as the US Federal Reserve meets.

Russian petrochemicals firm Sibur was able to print $500m of five year paper in its return to the bond market this week, brushing off news of a drone attack on Saudi oil infrastructure and a subsequent 10% jump in the oil price.

French telecommunications company Altice France added another €1bn to its bond package, taking advantage of the historically issuer-friendly market conditions. The tranches were finalised after the European Central Bank announced a new round of stimulus, pushing down bond yields across the board.

KfW and Bpifrance were the first public sector borrowers out of the blocks in euros following last Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting in which it unleashed its new comprehensive stimulus package.

Banco Sabadell and ASB Finance launched senior bonds in the euro market on Monday, with the former hitting the ‘sweet spot’ of investor appetite and the latter struggling to achieve the same level of demand as its Kiwi peer ANZ New Zealand had last week.

The blow to oil production in the Middle East seems to have boosted demand for Russian petrochemical giant Sibur's five year dollar benchmark on Monday — the issuer’s first bond in two years.