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If one was thinking of a similar pair of European corporate bond issuers, Unibail-Rodamco and Klépierre, the French property companies, might come high on the list. On Wednesday they both issued bonds — but the coincidence appeared to do neither issuer any harm.

Volkswagen returned to the Norwegian krone market for the second time this year on Thursday with a new Nkr500m ($61.7m) three year.

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With rates at historic lows pushing euro investors towards long dated debt, Mexico seized the opportunity to make capital markets history this week with the common currency’s first sovereign century bond, writes Virginia Furness.

Ukrainian mining and steel company Metinvest is asking holders of its outstanding Eurobonds for a maturity extension and a waiver for default events.

Commercial property investor Unibail-Rodamco this week launched four simultaneous straight bond and equity-linked transactions, which included the sale of a new, negative-yielding, and highly popular convertible deal.

The second quarter began with a whimper as dollar borrowers hunkered down for earnings blackout and M&A financiers waited to pounce.

Moroccan phosphate group OCP has mandated banks for a series of investor meetings for a 144A Reg S dollar bond.

Kosmos Energy found decent demand for a tap of its debut bond deal this week, despite being an EM flavoured oil credit.

We have become a bit spoiled. The minutes from the March Federal Open Markets Committee meeting and from other recent meetings provide more insight into the thinking of the world's most important monetary policy maker than would ever have been expected decades ago. The Fed began publishing its minutes in 1993, but the level of disclosure has only increased with time. But is the Federal Reserve's reliance on market based information logically consistent with its mandate? By Jared Woodard, BGC Financial

DTEK Energy Group, the largest privately owned energy company in Ukraine, has amended the terms of its exchange offer for its $200m Eurobonds due April 28, 2015.

The bonds of two Ukrainian state-owned banks rallied this week after the ministry of finance indicated that they will get lenient treatment in the sovereign debt restructuring process.