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The post earnings supply deluge continued this week as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo all hit the US bond market.

US plastics manufacturer Trinseo on Thursday priced $700m of senior unsecured bonds in dollars and euros, saving at least 200bp compared with the interest on the 8.75% bond the company wants to repay.

Ahli United Bank sold its $400m tier one bonds on Wednesday, with leads having positioned the deal between Burgan Bank and National Bank of Kuwait.

Hony Capital has raked in a whopping HK$11.1bn ($1.43bn) by exiting CSPC Pharmaceutical and Chinasoft International via two block trades that hit the market in quick succession, ending the PE firm’s involvement in these Hong Kong-listed companies.

Daiichi Sankyo Company has exited India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries through a jumbo Rp200bn ($3.2bn) block, pricing one of the largest ever ECM deals in the country. An extensive wall crossing process over the weekend helped pave the way for the transaction, which saw a roaring finish despite turbulent market conditions.

This week's record-breaking dual currency bond from China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) showed just how far Chinese issuers have come in the international bond market over the past few years. Sinopec managed to print an impressive $6.4bn and by doing so elevated its status to one of the elite borrowers in the region, writes Rev Hui.

Goldman has spent the last three years building out its debt platform in Europe, but it has kept its eye firmly on the ball in M&A and is pulling away from the pack once more, writes David Rothnie.

Chilean power generation company Empresa Eléctrica Guacolda is preparing a $500m 10 year bond after completing an investor roadshow on Wednesday.

The State of North Rhine-Westphalia on Wednesday sold an unusual eight year euro benchmark.

Bahrain’s Ahli United Bank has launched $400m of additional tier one notes at a yield of 6.875%, well inside the trading of comparable issuer Burgan Bank’s perpetuals though the deal is $100m smaller.

China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) hit the market on April 21 with a mammoth $6.4bn offering that was split between two currencies and five tranches. While the size of the transaction was impressive enough, it was the deal’s top notch pricing and distribution that drew attention with bankers claiming that Sinopec now belongs to an elite class of issuers.

Sinopec Group Overseas Development is looking set for another record-breaking transaction in the bond market, having opened books on April 21 for a multi-trancher and dual-currency whammy, which had netted a colossal volume of orders just half a day into bookbuilding.