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Atlantica Yield, the UK-based energy yieldco that was formerly Abengoa Yield, abandoned a $300m eight year high yield bond issue on Tuesday, as yields in the market reached their highest for over two years.

General Holding Corporation (Senaat), one of the United Arab Emirate’s largest industrial investment holding companies, is embarking on a roadshow. But syndicates away from the deal said the company looks to be entering the market at a tough time for EM bonds.

After Volkswagen (VW) printed the biggest corporate bond trade in its history the previous week, Volkswagen International Finance sold a six tranche dual-currency deal on Monday. While pricing on the dollar clips was commended by market participants, there were fewer compliments about the euro tranches, writes Nigel Owen.

Gazprom raised €1bn on Tuesday from the first public international bond sale from Russia since April saw the US imposing a punitive round of sanctions on the country. Rushydro followed on Thursday with a Rmb1.5bn ($220m) three year bond.

Japanese pharmaceuticals company Takeda implemented the first part of its financing of a £46bn takeover of UK biotech firm Shire on Thursday. The company used a six tranche combination to raise €7.5bn on its debut in the euro market.

French toll road operator APRR had been quiet in 2018 by its own standards, but it sold its first corporate bond deal of the year on Wednesday with a €500m long 11 year trade. It paid a low new issue premium for the deal, but lost a number of orders along the way.

Gazprom on Tuesday sold the first public international bond from Russia since a punitive round of US sanctions was put on the country in April.

Corporate bond investors have had to pick their way through a tricky market in 2018. A number of headwinds, both predictable and not, have made it difficult to produce the returns of previous years. However, there are a number of positives that remain, so how should investors move forward from here?

Russian giant Gazprom and Ukrainian oil and gas firm Naftogaz, who have been locking horns in court, both chose Tuesday to release price guidance for new Eurobonds. The Gazprom deal will be the first public international bond from a Russian issuer since the US sanctions that shook the market in April. The Naftogaz bond is its first since 2009.

After Volkswagen printed the biggest trade in its history the previous week, the company’s International Finance arm sold a six tranche dual-currency deal on Monday. In total, the company raised more than €14bn equivalent in a week.

Volkswagen printed the biggest trade in its history as high-grade corporate borrowers blitzed the dollar market in response to the results of the US mid-term elections.

BMW Finance found no reduction in the demand for its paper, despite its new issue on Thursday being its fourth dual-tranche deal of the year. The company has sold at least €1.75bn during each previous quarter of 2018, and it hit that mark again with its shortest combination of tenors.