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The dollar market will still be the place to go for SSAs next week as the euro market comes to terms with a rampant repricing, but not every deal in the market this week fared spectacularly well.
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FIG bankers became steadily more concerned about supply prospects this week as stability in European rates looked far off.
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A second successive twin tap deal, following Portugal’s lead at the end of last month, brought the European Financial Stability Facility both plaudits and brickbats this week in an otherwise deserted euro primary market, writes Craig McGlashan. -
The US high-grade market continued its hot streak this week, with more than $23bn of new corporate deals being priced in three days despite heightened volatility.
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A project bond said to be only Spain's second ever was pre-placed this week, raising €184.5m to refinance a 49km stretch of the A66 motorway northwest of Madrid.
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Würth, the German maker of screws and fastenings, opened the week’s corporate bond issuance in Europe with Monday’s sole corporate deal, drawing a solid order book at a skinny new issue premium.
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Tennet, the Dutch government-owned electricity transmission system operator, has mandated banks for its first green bond and will travel to meet investors next week.
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Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) made full use of a strong rally in the market and its solid credentials to set aggressive terms for a convertible bond offering a negative yield, raising $600m in the largest equity linked issue in Asia ex-Japan so far this year.
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The Asia Pacific Loan Market Association has elected a new board of members to lead the industry body.
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Reliance Jio Infocomm, which wrapped up a $1.5bn dual tranche loan in November, has signed a $750m 12 year facility backed by Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure).
