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German healthcare group Fresenius brought euro corporate bond investors their first jumbo deal of the year on Tuesday as it financed its acquisition of Spanish hospital operator QuironSalud.

A quartet of public sector borrowers are set to cram into the front end of the dollar curve on Wednesday, as bankers outlined a triple whammy of factors driving the squeeze.

VodafoneZiggo, the newly formed joint venture between Vodafone and Liberty Global-owned Ziggo, launched a €1.5bn-equivalent term loan package this week with a lender call at 4pm London time on Tuesday.

Trafigura, the Swiss commodities trader, has launched a multicurrency revolving credit facility to refinance the deal it signed in March last year.

Douglas, the German retailer, launched a refinancing of a €1.37bn seven year term loan ‘B’ on Tuesday, as the firm comes out of soft call protection from its last repricing in mid-2016.

Times Property Holdings made a successful return to the international debt market on Monday with a $375m bond, benefiting from a strategy of starting with a generous initial guidance before slashing it by almost 40bp.

London-headquartered Vedanta Resources is pursuing a new 5.5 year dollar transaction after more than three years out of the international market,. The new deal is taking place alongside a tender offer for two of the company’s existing notes.

Malaysian conglomerate Genting Group launched its debut dollar bond through subsidiary Genting Overseas Holding Company (GOHL) on Tuesday morning.

German real estate company LEG Immobilien was alone in the euro market on Monday as it made its debut senior bond transaction with a €500m no-grow seven year.

Micro Focus, a UK software firm, is poised to offer up $1bn-equivalent in euros to the European leveraged loan market as it looks to close its reverse merger with Hewlett Packard’s software business.

High yield real estate names Times Property Holdings and Yanlord Land Group are marketing their respective dollar-denominated bonds on Monday morning, looking to lock in early funding for the year.

The sterling high yield bond market on Friday priced its first single-B rated issue of the year, a £275m note from Amigo Loans, a UK consumer lender, with the third highest coupon in the past 12 months for a single-B sterling issue.