Latin America

Market analysts said that Argentina’s $50bn IMF programme — which one strategist thought to be the largest ever provided by the fund — had surpassed all expectations, with bonds rallying lightly last Friday.

Caribbean island nation Barbados took bond markets by surprise last Friday by announcing a restructuring of all external debt, abruptly ending the hope that the new government — and its openness to the IMF — had brought to bondholders.

Investors owning $12.836bn-equivalent of Petrobras dollar and euro bonds offered to sell their notes in a tender offer before Tuesday's early bird deadline — more than three times the $4bn limit that the Brazilian oil company had set for the buy-back.

Chilean electricity company Enel Chile pounced on improving market conditions to raise $1bn of 10 year bonds on Thursday, after attracting the largest order book for a Lat Am dollar deal in several months.

South American development bank CAF took the unusual step of issuing in euros just four months since its last outing in the currency, after eying an opportunity in a favourable basis swap.

South American development bank CAF (Corporación Andina de Fomento) returned to the euro markets for the second time this year with a smaller deal than some were expecting amid volatile European markets.

Investors owning some $12.836bn-equivalent of Petrobras dollar and euro bonds offered to sell their notes in a tender offer before Tuesday's early bird deadline — more than three times the $4bn limit that the Brazilian oil company had set for the buy-back.

South American development bank CAF (Corporación Andina de Fomento) has released initial price thoughts for its second visit to the euro bond market this year.

Less than two years after it completed a restructuring in which all of its existing debt was wiped out, Frontera Energy is plotting a return to primary bond markets.

A decision by the new prime minister of Barbados to suspend all external debt payments sent the island’s bond prices down more than 50 points, stunning bondholders who were mostly not expecting to take the brunt of a long-term economic decline.

With Petrobras bond prices still on their way down after a truckers’ strike that caused the company to cut diesel prices, CEO Pedro Parente resigned on Friday — much to the dismay of Fitch Ratings.

Central American development bank Cabei issued Ps4bn ($199.8m) of Mexican peso denominated debt via a dual-tranche bond sale last week.