Goldman Sachs
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US investors shrugged off concerns over tensions between their country and China to support internet company Baidu’s $950m dual-tranche bond outing this week. -
Eni, the Italian oil and gas company, got blowout demand for its debut hybrid capital issue on Tuesday, as yield-hungry investors pumped about €14bn of orders into the dual tranche trade.
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Société du Grand Paris plans to steam ahead with funding as it announced a doubling of its green EMTN programme and a substantial increase to its 2020 funding programme to help prefund the financing for the next three years of the Grand Paris Express project.
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Risk appetite has returned to the high grade corporate bond market, with UK airport Heathrow and US drinks firm PepsiCo managing to move spreads by around 45bp during execution.
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A trio of firsts are coming to the high grade corporate bond market this week, with a debut hybrid from Italian oil and gas firm Eni, a green first for French chemicals company Arkema and a postponed entry to the Eurobond market for Danish pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck.
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Goldman Sachs has appointed Iain Drayton as co-head of investment banking for Asia ex-Japan, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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A record month for US mergers and acquisitions will fail to boost the dollar corporate bond market, as bankers predict a sharp slowdown in activity in the fourth quarter.
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Two borrowers visited the long end of the dollar curve this week and while both completed their deals successfully, investors clearly displayed more appetite for the higher yielding of the pair.
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The UK’s InterContinental Hotels and Italian airport Società Esercizi Aeroportuali have mandated for bond issues, giving investors another attempt to pick up some potentially higher yielding debt than has been on offer recently.
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Asian Development Bank and the Province of Ontario hit the dollar market on Tuesday, with both issuers tapping the tricky 10 year part of the curve ahead of the start of public holidays in Asia this week which will put a pause on issuance in the currency.
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China Yangtze Power has raised $1.8bn from a smaller-than-expected offer of Global Depositary Receipts in London, sealing only the third listing through the London-Shanghai Stock Connect scheme.
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Biopharmaceutical firm Everest Medicines has hit the road for its up to HK$3.5bn ($451m) Hong Kong IPO.
