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The Republic of Indonesia has returned to the dollar bond market for the third time this year for an up to $4bn deal, while eHi Car Services and Golden Wheel Tiandi Holdings are attracting high yield bids.

ABN Amro targeted sterling for a £300m six year senior bond on Monday, pricing more tightly than could have done in euros, according to rival bankers.

Anticipation that the European Central Bank will extend its public sector purchase programme on Thursday resulted in what one banker called an “abnormally successful deal” from Erste Abwicklungsanstalt on Monday.

HSBC has appointed long-serving banker Montgomery Ho to the newly created role of chief executive for Guangdong as it seeks to solidify its presence in southern China.

Doosan Power Systems (DPS) and the Sydney branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China started attracting interest from bond investors on November 30, opening books for their respective dollar deals.

Chinese authorities are expected to allow the renminbi to depreciate following the decision on the IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, though there is a debate about how severe that fall will be. Either way, it is likely a hike in rates by the Federal Reserves (Fed) could hold more sway on the RMB's future than SDR inclusion.

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt is lining up to issue its first public euro bond since October 2013, which is set to be priced before next week's European Central Bank meeting.

Solvay, the Belgian chemical company, enjoyed the benefit of the European corporate bond market's blistering return to form this week, when it raised €3.25bn of hybrid and senior debt for its acquisition of Cytec Industries.

SEB Germany offered the lowest ever yield for a primary covered bond when it issued a three year public sector Pfandbrief on Tuesday. But some sort of positive return was necessary, even if it was minuscule.

Daimler closed its books on Friday for its Schuldschein note, increasing on its launch size from €300m to €1.1bn.

The European corporate bond market let its traditional reverence for Thanksgiving lapse, printing two deals during the US public holiday on Thursday.

Banks, investors and even the Spanish and US governments are bracing themselves for a long and bruising battle to restructure Abengoa, the Spanish renewable energy group likely to enter a pre-insolvency period on Friday.