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Rights of Informa, the UK business and academic publishing and events company, began trading separately from its shares this week. Both have traded down, but the ratio between the prices remains satisfactory.

Investment grade corporate issuers hit the euro bond markets in force on Tuesday with five primary transactions in play, but defensive deal sizes characterised the frantic flow.

Some eight banks that arranged Saudi Arabia’s $10bn loan in May have secured berths on the sovereign's bond extravaganza that is due to kick off this week.

South Korea's Hyundai Capital Services is set to meet international fixed income investors starting Monday next week.

An over-ambitious price range and miscommunication among the lead banks towards the end of bookbuilding has forced Doosan Bobcat to pull its W2.4tr ($2.2bn) IPO in South Korea, according to bankers.

Indonesian textile company Delta Dunia Sandang Tekstil has signed its $260m fundraising with 13 lenders, about four months after banks were first sounded out.

Telefónica returned to the euro bond market after only a month with a more vanilla offering than its last issue, a hybrid bond, as investors favoured the shorter piece of its dual tranche offering.

With one quarter left of 2016 to go and global issuance 22% down, the equity capital markets bookrunner race is going into its final straight. Familiar faces are leading the pack, but incumbents in general are having a tough year.

On Monday Spain's Ibercaja returned to the covered bond market for the first time since 2010 to issue the tightest Spanish deal this year. Although the book contained fewer orders than many Spanish covered bonds, the scale of excess demand was above average.

Sodexo, the French catering, support and care services group, hit the euro market on the same day the US released nonfarm payrolls for a €600m 10.5 year bond that clinched "super tight" pricing.

Hellenic Petroleum on Thursday opened books for a new euro bond to redeem its 8% 2017s, with coupon guidance already some 200bp tighter than the old notes.

It was all going so well for Italy. Its entry to the 50 year bond club on Tuesday pulled in a monstrous €18.5bn of orders. But almost immediately the bond became tradeable, the market frothed with talk of the European Central Bank tapering QE, sending Eurozone periphery bonds into a tailspin to remind everyone just how much markets are in the grip of central bank policy. Lewis McLellan reports.