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On Tuesday multi-tranche and green bond issuance returned to the investment grade corporate bond market, leaving just the hybrid asset class untouched in 2018. That didn’t last long, as Engie and Aroundtown launched new hybrid deals on Wednesday morning, one of which set new lows for the product's coupon and spread levels.

On Wednesday French toll road operator Autoroutes du Sud de la France followed the path its compatriot Orange had taken on Tuesday by issuing a €1bn 12 year new issue. Meanwhile Italian auto finance bank FCA Bank was also in the market with its first benchmark floating rate note.

The Republic of Turkey sold a $2bn 10 year bond on Tuesday just as a sell-off in US Treasuries took hold, but it still managed to raise a book of $5.3bn for the deal.

Traditionally, January causes investors the headache of trying to keep up with the number of deals coming to market. This January however, it was starting to look like investors may have had the opposite problem.

Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi batted away suggestions on Tuesday that its deal would suffer from pricing on the same day as the Turkish sovereign, printing a $350m five year bond from a book of $1.15bn and 15bp inside initial price guidance.

PhosAgro, a Russian phosphate-based fertiliser company, is embarking on a series of investor meetings to market a five to seven year dollar bond.

China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings (CALC) has sealed a rare asset-backed securities deal in the onshore market — the first dollar-denominated ABS to be publicly traded. But while the transaction holds symbolic significance, the format is unlikely to become the norm for the Chinese ABS market.

The People’s Bank of China has reportedly tweaked the way it sets the daily renminbi fix against the dollar, abandoning a key control mechanism it introduced last May. While some analysts hail the move as a sign of confidence from China, others say it exposes the failure of the PBoC’s previous FX policy.

Italian electricity supplier Enel sold its second green bond on Tuesday, repeating the timing of its first such offering in 2017, which it also sold in the second week of the year. The latest deal was the same size, but priced tighter and won a larger order book, despite printing with a longer maturity.

The world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev’s last visit to the euro bond market was to help finance its $107bn acquisition of SAB Miller in 2016 and on Tuesday the issuer returned with a smaller offering that investors were still thirsty for.

The United Mexican States has released price guidance on its first euro bond for over a year.

The Turkish sovereign has mandated three banks for its usual start of year dollar bond while Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi released guidance for its note. But the latter drew criticism for going head to head with its sovereign.