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Italian energy company Enel received €3n of orders for €1.25bn of new hybrid bonds on Tuesday. This showed the insatiable appetite of investors for the product with the enhanced yield it offers and ratings agency Scope expects 2018 to record much more supply that the previous two years.

Turkey sent shockwaves through parts of the financial markets this week, with the lira plunging to the lowest it has ever been against the dollar following comments from president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about increased political sway over the central bank. The struggle of the lira and other EM currencies is weighing heavily on the capital markets.

On Tuesday, Italian energy company Enel sold €1.25bn of new hybrid bonds to help fund the repurchase of its hybrids with 2019 and 2020 call dates. The buyback was announced after the firm’s chief financial officer announced that the company would refinance up to €3.5bn of hybrids at a cost of about 3.5%.

German chemicals company BASF found substantial demand for its second visit to the corporate bond market to fund its acquisition of Bayer’s seed business.

BMW Finance had to negotiate its way through a busy corporate bond market on Monday as it sold a €1.75bn 4.5 and eight year dual tranche offering. It had to pay new issue premiums of around 8bp-10bp but saw strong demand.

Two A-rated corporates went head to head in the euro corporate bond market on Monday as UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and US electrical systems manufacturer United Technologies Corp both launched triple-tranche deals, with two matching maturities, which totalled €4.5bn.

The euro corporate bond market is set bounce back with a vengeance next week, with all bankers expecting heavy supply after two weeks shortened by public holidays.

GlaxoSmithKline added to the crush of red hot dollar bond supply this week, as borrowers began a spring stampede to lock in funding ahead of a likely rate rise next month.

The Republic of Ghana was set to price its dollar dual tranche bond as GlobalCapital went to press on Thursday evening, having picked a phenomenal day for a deal, with the bonds of several African sovereigns bouncing two points.

Daimler, the German car manufacturer, has raised more than €7bn equivalent from three different corporate bond markets within two weeks of announcing its quarterly results on April 27. The sterling market was its focus on Wednesday and it received as strong a response as it did in the other two sectors.

On Wednesday, US car manufacturer Ford’s finance arm followed its recent trend in using the euro corporate market to fund itself in floating rate note format. It kept its tenors short with a pair of FRNs, but found investors had a preference for the shorter option.

The Republic of Ghana is taking advantage of a more stable day in emerging market currency trading to print its bond, though the country’s outstanding paper has widened during the roadshow.