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IHS Markit exploited the lull in high-grade supply to grab investor attention with its investment grade debut. -
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Concerns from some fund managers about the terms of Altice’s new €2.5bn-equivalent bond were swamped by orders from other investors eager to bag single-B paper with a big coupon from a core high yield issuer. After a series of successful investor push-backs on deal terms, the debt laden French telecom proved this week that borrowers still can walk away with loose covenants, writes Victor Jimenez.
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Wall Street heavyweights returned in force to the dollar market with a string of multi-billion dollar trades after posting strong second quarter earnings.
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The World Bank is keen to bring a euro benchmark this year, having been absent from that segment for nearly two years. The supranational this week made a triumphant return to dollars, setting a 2018 record for the tightest swap spread on a three year dollar benchmark so far.
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The third week of July finally saw the summer lull kick in, with SSA issuance volumes at less than half of what was sold last week. But Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten still managed to snatch up a successful tap, and SSA bankers and issuers reckoned the market still bodes well for new issues.
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Grim trading in African bonds this year has not stopped DCM and syndicate bankers predicting that African Eurobond volumes will blast past historical records to hit a new high in 2018. With Angola forging ahead this week with a tap that broke a dollar hiatus of more than a month in the CEEMEA market, they look set to be proved right, writes Francesca Young.
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Electricity network operator Terna has sold the first investment grade corporate bond from an Italian issuer since the formation of the country’s new government and was rewarded with an order book that was more than 5.5 times subscribed, demonstrating an investor base that is open to Italy risk once more. Nigel Owen reports.
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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) raised $600m with a green bond on Wednesday, offering no new issue premium to an investor base desperate for environmentally friendly assets.
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There is a sense that banks in the Middle East are being encouraged to pledge allegiance in the public bond markets to either Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates or to Qatar, as the diplomatic tensions between the two sides rumble on. But in the MTN market it is becoming clear that no such division exists.
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World Bank on Wednesday returned following an eight month absence in dollar benchmark funding to print the tightest spread on a three year dollar deal from an SSA this year.
