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Monday saw five new corporate bond issues in Europe, but Ahold Delhaize was the only issuer to price a deal on Tuesday. Unlike the triple-B rated issuers on Monday however, the Dutch food retailer paid a single digit new issue premium.

Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance is gearing up for its second deal in China’s securitization market this year as it beefs up its operations in the Mainland.

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever printed the fifth sterling corporate bond deal in three days on Monday. The £500m dual tranche deal offered investors seven and 12 year tenors.

On Monday, Japanese brewer Asahi Group brought the fourth European bond issue by a beer producer in Europe in 2017. The €1.2bn dual tranche offering was the largest of four new issues in the euro corporate bond market, all of which were rated triple-B and paid double digit new issue premiums.

Euro corporate bond issuance returned on Friday after a blank day due to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting. As the ECB’s president, Mario Draghi, said nothing to unsettle markets, US machinery maker John Deere and Italian oil and gas company Eni both priced deals in euros before the weekend, while Sweden's Akelius Property did the same in sterling.

Having sealed the largest deal in its Driver China series in May, Volkswagen Finance (China) decided it wanted to raise more from China’s securitization market. The originator stuck to a similar deal structure on September 7, taking home Rmb3.66bn ($569.7m).

The dollar high grade bond market returned to barnstorming form this week following the summer break with a Who’s Who of corporate America tapping the market.

As the European Central Bank meeting suspended euro issuance on Thursday, British Land took the opportunity to grab UK investors’ attention with its first senior bond for 11 years. The £300m 12 year deal followed Tuesday’s £250m seven year transaction from Total, which had an order book of around £600m.

French property company Icade printed its first green bond on Monday, on a day when no other corporates ventured into the bond market. Having the full attention of investors allowed the issuer to increase the deal to €600m and price 20bp tighter than initial price thoughts.

On Tuesday, pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline returned to the corporate bond market for the first time since November 2014, and its rarity value contributed to combined order books of over €5.5bn for the triple tranche deal.

On Tuesday, German car manufacturer Daimler converted a couple of reverse enquiries into an order book of around €600m, as investors showed renewed appetite for short dated fixed rate corporate bonds.

Telefónica printed the largest single tranche of the day on Tuesday, with a €1.25bn deal with a January 2028 maturity. Despite competing with three other corporate bond deals in the euro market, the deal built a €3bn order book and was printed with a single digit new issue premium.