Guatemala
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Sticker shock wearing off in LatAm is an encouraging and necessary omen
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Power co is funding buy-back with debt from Guatemalan subsidiary
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Pan-Latin America power company will spend up to $200m prepaying debt
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Other borrowers may have limited time to take advantage
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It's time for borrowers and bankers to shake off the summer lethargy
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Country clinches first sovereign benchmark from the region since March
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Guatemalan sugar co decides not to issue after ‘extensive’ roadshow
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Spreads no tighter but stability may entice some issuers
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Guatemalan telco increases size of 10 year to pay for Millicom acquisition
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Thursday could be hectic as more issuers plot new deals
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Two LatAm corporate issuers tested the waters on Thursday but only one priced its deal
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Central American drinks company says buy-back contingent on new issue
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Emerging markets telco plans to raise $1.5bn of long-term debt
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Investors say more LatAm sovereigns could issue in October to get ahead of further US Treasury moves
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Idyllic conditions over but deals can still be done, say bankers
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Colombian lender Banco Davivienda and Central American renewable energy company CMI Energía both priced new issues inside the ranges indicated at guidance on Thursday, as Latin American bond markets took advantage of a strong bid for US Treasuries.
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Guatemala’s largest lender, Banco Industrial, returned to international bond markets on Friday after more than eight years away with a tier two deal that was more than three times oversubscribed.
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Debt capital markets bankers covering Latin America continue to be impressed by the pace and variety of new issuance in January, with Guatemalan lender Banco Industrial the latest to join the primary pipeline.
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Guatemala has settled a long-running legal dispute with Florida-based Teco Energy, allowing it to pay bondholders and avoid defaulting on an international bond.
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Guatemala’s international bonds prices finally reacted this week to its failure to make a November 3 coupon payment amid a legal battle with a US energy company. But the Central American government’s public credit office says a solution is imminent and bondholders appear confident that default will be avoided.
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Guatemala’s head of public credit said on Wednesday that the Central American sovereign hoped to resolve in the “next two days” a dispute with Florida-based Teco Energy that has caused its fiscal agent in New York to freeze a coupon payment due at the start of this month.
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Guatemala is locked in a legal fight with Florida-based Teco Energy that public credit director Rosa María Ortega said in a motion to a New York District Court endangered the Central American sovereign’s “perfect” bond repayment record.
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The Central American Bottling Corporation (CBC), a major bottler and distributor for drinks giants PepsiCo and AmBev, raised $200m of funding in bond markets on Tuesday in an effort to refinance debt and support its cash balance.
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Guatemala battled difficult market conditions on Thursday to issue its first 30 year bond since 2004 as part of a dual-tranche issue as investors continue to seek long-dated paper.
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The Central American renewable energy subsidiary of multinational conglomerate Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI) will begin investor meetings on Friday as it seeks to become the first debut issuer from Latin America since May.
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Central American sovereign Guatemala sold $500m of dollar bonds on Wednesday in a deal that came roughly flat to its curve.
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Guatemalan electricity distributor Energuate’s heavily oversubscribed debut bond closed two points above reoffer on the day of pricing to cap a hectic week in Latin American new issue markets.
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The success of Argentine province Neuquén’s $366m bond issue on Thursday left bankers confident that the Latin America bond market was more than capable of taking on the flurry of rare and debut issuers coming its way next week.
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Central America’s largest electricity distribution company could make its debut in international bond markets next week after mandating three banks to arrange an investor roadshow.
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The Central American Bottling Corporation (CBC) will redeem all of its $300m of bonds due 2022 after pricing a new 10 year deal that has performed very strongly in secondary markets.
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Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer and Guatemala-headquartered Central American Bottling Corporation (CBC) showed that Latin American bond markets had put the softness at the end of last week behind them with heavily oversubscribed trades on Wednesday.
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Central American sovereign Guatemala sold its first international bond in three years this week, with market participants saying a strong technical bid from local investors helped it to a relatively tight yield.
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Guatemala will undertake a second day of investor calls on Thursday ahead of what is likely to be the its first international bond since February 2013.