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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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DCM bankers in Asia are predicting a record year for bond issuance, following a strong first half buoyed by positive investor sentiment and favourable market conditions. Although the year so far shows a complicated story of feast and famine in different parts of the debt market, there is plenty of optimism for the rest of 2019. Morgan Davis reports.
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The arrest of Future Land Development Holdings’ founder and chairman caused a sharp sell-off in the Chinese property company’s dollar bonds, with analysts worried the incident may hurt its debt-servicing ability in the short and long term.
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German heat exchanger firm Galapagos, which is deep in negotiations over a debt restructuring, accidentally paid a coupon to bondholders last month, despite a deal with secured creditors to waive the payment ahead of a bid to tackle its debt load. Meanwhile, unsecured bondholders rejected proposals from the company and its secured creditors, leading to a threat from Galapagos that the bondholders will be wiped out.
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President Trump's friendlier tone at the G20 meeting in Osaka last weekend, when he said the US would not immediately raise tariffs on Chinese imports, has given investment grade corporate bond issuers a bullish market this week, and several have taken advantage. High yield is quiet, by contrast.
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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.
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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.
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