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Chinese companies Xiamen Xiangyu Group Corp and Shimao Property Holdings each raised $500m on Tuesday, but saw different reactions to their bonds. While investors were keen on the former investment grade rated name, demand for the property industry is starting to see some pull back.
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Public sector borrowers wrapped up a trio of short end dollar trades on Tuesday, with the tightest issuer able to grind in pricing to the lowest level from an SSA this year and the higher yielding names finding ample demand despite ending up at similar spreads. SSA bankers are confident that the strong conditions will also ring true at the long end for KfW, which has mandated for its first 10 year dollar benchmark in nearly three years.
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Spain’s 10 year benchmark weighed in at €10bn on Tuesday — its largest deal in four years — and drew an astonishing book of over €43bn.
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Turkey’s largest hospital group, MLP Sağlık Hizmetleri, also known as MLP Care, set the terms of its IPO on Monday and expects to price it next month.
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Nordic high yield bond bankers are making a play to attract more borrowers from elsewhere in Europe, promising them access to local investors familiar with mid-cap borrowers and small deal sizes. This week, SecureLink, a Belgian software security company, listed its first bond on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
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Saudi Arabia has requested proposals to refinance its $10bn syndicated loan, signed in 2016. It has also asked for ideas for a dollar bond issue and a possible export credit agency-backed financing, as part of a new financing plan.
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Indonesian construction services company Wijaya Karya sealed a Rph5.4tr ($404.7m) offshore rupiah bond on Monday, a key deal in the opening up of the Komodo bond market.
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A-Living Services Co plans to raise around HK$4.7bn ($605m) in a Hong Kong IPO, on the back of strong indications of interest from investors.
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Korea Southern Power Co (Kospo) has priced the first public dollar bond from South Korea amid a US government shutdown. But the 144A deal saw little fallout from that. Easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, the quality of its credit and demand for short-dated paper ensured investor interest.
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The Republic of Indonesia has mandated banks for a green dollar sukuk sale, marking the region’s first sovereign green issuance.
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Spain, fresh from an upgrade to its Fitch credit rating, hit screens on Monday to announce a new 10 year euro benchmark. The sovereign will share the market with Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
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Public sector borrowers are pouring into the three year part of the dollar curve after a series of issuers printed strong deals in the tenor last week.