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Tsinghua Tongfang Co has priced a smaller $300m deal, as investors appeared cautious amid an ongoing share sale. Yuzhou Properties and Shandong Guohui Investment Co returned to the market and saw big order books, the latter fueled by lead manager interest.

Colombian utility Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) will begin fixed-income investor meetings on Thursday and could issue dollar bonds for the first time in 10 years as part of a $1bn-equivalent deal to refinance debt.

Bond market participants in Argentina say that more issuers from the country could look to pre-empt election-related uncertainty and take advantage of benign fundraising conditions after Pampa Energía followed in YPF’s footsteps with a 10 year deal on Tuesday.

Two German issuers returned to the corporate euro bond market on Tuesday, amid a thirst for risk among investors sparked by last weekend’s G20 meeting.

Austrian agency Asfinag won a big order book on Tuesday, allowing it to price 3bp tighter than guidance, in a 10 year tenor the issuer hasn't accessed since 2009. Municipality Finance and the German federal state of Lower Saxony will add to the euro SSA supply on Wednesday with a 10 year green bond and a seven year benchmark, respectively.

Belgium’s Cofinimmo has amended and restated its revolving credit facility, with the real estate investment company ramping up the size of its bank line to €400m.

The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait has set pricing for its five year bond.

With emerging markets loan volumes half of what they were by this time last year, syndicate staff are facing job cuts and increased pressure to find ways to compete for what scraps of business there are. The battlegrounds will be pricing and covenants.

Bond investors will have a chance to give a further indication of their appetite for Argentine risk as Pampa Energía looks to follow in YPF’s steps and continue to reactivate the primary markets from the country.

Budweiser Brewing Company Apac has kicked off the roadshow for its up to HK$76.4bn ($9.8bn) Hong Kong listing, on track to be the city’s largest IPO in nearly a decade and the world’s biggest flotation so far this year.

European leveraged finance revenue for the first half of the year is down more than 50%, according to figures from Dealogic released on Monday — and is increasingly going to a small handful of banks, in particular JP Morgan.

A renewed appetite for risk was felt in Europe's corporate bond market this week, after US president Donald Trump appeared to have made overtures to the leaders of China and North Korea. Two issuers took advantage: Merck of Germany, with an acquisition financing, and ArcelorMittal, with a modest tap.