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Country Garden Holdings Co, one of the biggest Chinese high yield property borrowers, returned to the bond market with a dual tranche deal on Tuesday, raising a combined $1bn from the transaction.

Chinese electric vehicle maker Li Auto has brought forward the close and pricing of its up to $950m Nasdaq listing after securing heavy demand for the deal.

Chinese pharmaceutical company WuXi AppTec has raised HK$7.37bn ($950.4m) of fresh equity, in a hotly-anticipated tap of a new mandate to issue A-shares and H-shares.

KfW tapped an October 2034 line on Tuesday, enjoying impressive demand for the €1bn trade thanks, in part, to the strong performance of the Bund curve sending investors hunting for yield.

Li Auto, a Chinese electric vehicle maker, has opened books for an offering of American Depository Shares (ADS) on the Nasdaq.

Stonegate, the UK pub owner, raised just over £1.2bn-equivalent on Friday to partly refinance £2.73bn worth of acquisition facilities used to acquire competitor Ei.

Wordline, the French payments company, has returned to the equity-linked market to sell a new five-year €600m convertible bond at a negative yield.

Sino Biopharmaceutical’s chief executive Tse Ping has sold a portion of his stake in the company for the second time this year, pocketing HK$3.15bn ($406.4m) but causing the stock price to tumble in the secondary market.

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The World Bank impressed with its first benchmark transaction of its new fiscal year this week as it received solid demand despite pricing tightly to match the spread it paid for a five year deal before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Ukraine returned to the international bond market on Thursday to issue the Reg S/144A 12 year bond that it pulled just weeks ago when its central bank governor resigned right after it was priced.

The European Stability Mechanism is likely to use its funding window scheduled for next week to issue a dollar benchmark, according to SSA bankers.