Middle East
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Turkey is in the market for a five year dollar benchmark — its first trip to international capital markets since it was plunged into financial crisis by US sanctions earlier this year. -
The loan market is weighing up the consequences of the disappearance and plausible murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist who had criticised the regime.
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The decision on Friday by the Turkish constitutional court to release the American pastor Andrew Brunson provided a surge of relief for investors in the beleaguered nation, although most of the tightening in debt spreads happened in advance.
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Islamic Development Bank has picked banks for a roadshow promoting its debut euro denominated sukuk benchmark — for the second time this year.
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Despite a flurry of announcements by business leaders that they were abandoning their visits to a Saudi conference amid claims of the torture and murder of a journalist, IMF boss Christine Lagarde said she would go to Riyadh to “speak my mind”.
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A court hearing in Turkey could dictate the direction of the country's economy and the outlook for its capital markets in the months to come. Pastor Andrew Brunson, the US citizen whose detention led to the sanctions that triggered the Turkish recession, will appeal his arrest before the Turkish constitutional court on Friday.
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With equity prices around the world tumbling, emerging markets bankers are watching to see just how badly their asset class will be affected.
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Turkey is braced for one of the most important political events of what has been a turbulent year; the hearing of US pastor Andrew Brunson. The consequences could shape Turkey’s recovery from its recession. Elsewhere, a Russian mining company's loan showed the country is not quite closed for business, and after weeks of quiet, Latin American markets have bounced into life.
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Gulf International Bank has cancelled a five year dollar bond that it began roadshowing at the end of September.
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Saudi Arabia’s newfound zeal for international loans is testing some lenders’ credit limits for the country, as banks prepare to digest an up to $50bn financing for Saudi Aramco. Michael Turner reports.
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