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Asia’s debt markets, which were shut for the Chinese New Year holiday this week, are back to a wait and see mode following delays in trade talks between the US and the Mainland. -
Rating agencies and investors are realising they have more in common than they thought when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. And they are more inclined now to work together than find fault.
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High yield bonds for auto parts manufacturer Adient slipped more than three points on Thursday as the company tweaked its loan covenants and produced disappointing numbers. The firm’s new management is taking aggressive action to turn the group around and says it needs the financial headroom to do so.
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LetterOne, the largest shareholder in troubled Spanish retailer Dia (Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación), has unveiled a tender for the group’s shares, along with a plan to inject €500m of equity, as an alternative to the existing management plan for the group. The share price bounced on the news, but bondholders need more clarity about LetterOne’s intentions — and about what will happen to the firm’s €1.3bn of trade payables.
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Capital market sentiment in the UK has weakened as the country awaits the detail of its scheduled departure from the EU, if a couple of indicators published this week are anything to go by. However, even a bad Brexit could be welcomed by corporate financiers.
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Green bond issuance has been in hot demand so far this year with investors allocating ever greater sums to sustainable and ethical mandates. However, it is not just the green labels on deals that are affecting their decisions.
