Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs took flack from the market for its fixed income results on Tuesday, the second quarter running that the once-dominant firm has missed market expectations. Fixed income client execution was down 40% from last year to $1.16bn, following a first quarter when fixed income was up just 1% against a miserable 2016 number.

US cleaning products maker Diversey has accelerated commitments on its €1.6bn-equivalent of loans, backing Bain Capital’s $3.2bn carve-out of the business from Sealed Air, despite one investor in London expressing concern over the deal’s leverage.

Supermarket Income Reit has completed a £100m IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, though it raised less money than it had hoped. The promoters believe they are offering access to an undervalued part of the UK property market that can provide a strong yield.

Ivanhoé Cambridge, the Canadian real estate company that is the largest shareholder in Gecina, has sold 87% of its allocation of rights in the French property group's €1bn rights issue, through a block trade on Tuesday night.

Italian electricity network operator, Terna, brought its first new issue of 2017 on Wednesday, and benefitted from the current strong demand for triple-B rated bonds. The €1bn 10-year deal had an orderbook of €1.6bn and printed with a new issue premium of 10bp.

Vodafone was the star issuer of last summer, printing jumbo deals which served to kick-start the sterling corporate bond market, which is still going strong. On Wednesday however, they opted for more conservative volumes, printing before the summer shutdown begins. The UK telecoms company also adopted a novel approach to pricing.

Poland’s PKO Bank offered IG investors a healthy pick-up to the Polish sovereign curve with its new four year note on Tuesday.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power grabbed a modest $300m from its 10 year bullet in a busy primary market on Tuesday, tempering its expectations to seal a smaller size at a decent price.

Any debt bankers hoping for an early summer lull were left sorely disappointed on Tuesday, as a slew of Chinese issuers ensured a breakneck pace of issuance.

Sweden on Tuesday printed a dollar benchmark at one of the tightest spreads to mid-swaps from a public sector issuer this year, as a Canadian province prepared to bring a deal in the currency further out the curve.

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) sold its fifth dual tranche of the year on Tuesday, gaining plaudits as it added €1.5bn to a line that bankers said came under secondary market pressure when launched in February.

Thermo Fisher Scientific put a big dent in the debt it needs to raise to buy Patheon on Tuesday with a €2.6bn four tranche corporate bond offer.