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After celebrating German Unity Day on Wednesday, Deutsche Telekom (DT) wasted no time in getting back to its capital markets work with its first visit to the sterling market in 18 months, satisfying some of the latent demand in the currency.

The order book for Afreximbank’s revived five year dollar benchmark had filled with more than $1bn of orders by Thursday lunchtime, according to a banker close to the deal.

A dearth of corporate bond supply on Wednesday, due to a German public holiday, was followed by deals from airport operators in two markets on Thursday. Aéroports de Paris (AdP) opted for the domestic route, while Heathrow made its first visit to the Australian market.

Petrochemicals company Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and Qatari bank Al Khalij Commercial Bank printed bonds on Tuesday with no sign of investors wearying of Middle Eastern supply despite $12.5bn having been sold from the region since the start of September.

Quite often, a record period of issuance comes to an abrupt halt as investors require a period of time to digest the volume of issuance, allow for some performance of the bonds they have bought and cash piles to replenish. After a record third quarter in the euro corporate bond market however, investors are keen for more.

Amphenol Technologies, the European subsidiary of a US fibreoptic cable connector firm, sold its first bond in euros on Monday. Despite a weaker secondary tone, demand for the 10 year deal justified the issuer’s decision to press ahead with the trade.

A decade on from the last financial crisis, rating agency Moody’s has identified a number of risky issues which may significantly affect European corporate borrowers, should another crisis occur, despite the improvements that have been made.

European corporate bond market participants are expecting a quieter week of issuance following two of the strongest weeks of 2018, but there is still plenty of opportunity among the various public holidays.

Eutelsat, the French satellite operator, overcame some strong negative sentiment around its sector to increase its latest corporate bond issue. This was not the first time the company had overcome a difficult environment to get a deal done.

US healthcare company Abbott Laboratories debuted in the European corporate bond market on Monday, selling a €3.42bn triple-tranche deal. The proceeds of the jumbo deal were to repay the issuer’s outstanding deals in dollars.

Corporate dollar bond issuance ended a bumper month with a whimper as borrowers fought shy either side of the Fed’s September meeting.

German publishing company Bertelsmann returned to the euro corporate bond market on Tuesday to re-market a deal it had pulled in May after setting the spread. This time the issuer priced the transaction at what was seen as a more realistic spread, but the high premium was in part due to the illiquidity of the secondary curve.