North America
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Shares in Solvay, the Belgian chemical company, closed at €103.65 on Thursday, up 3.1% since Monday night, after shareholders voted to approve the €1.5bn rights issue to finance its takeover of Cytec Industries, the US maker of advanced materials. -
La Caisse Centrale Desjardins du Quebec (CCDJ) issued a €1bn five year covered bond on Thursday which offered the widest spread for a Canadian bank this year, but with little new issue premium.
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Bankers and investors on Wednesday said the failure of Veritas Technologies' $2.5bn bond deal — which was pulled along with an accompanying $3.3bn loan package on Tuesday — showed evidence of familiar weaknesses and errors in the European high yield market.
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Danske Bank in Finland, formally known as Sampo Housing Loan Bank, has mandated leads for its first covered bond since September 2012. Meanwhile, La Caisse Centrale Desjardins du Quebec (CCDJ) has also mandated.
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Citigroup is looking to buy back up to £485m equivalent of senior and subordinated debt across four senior and subordinated securities in sterling and euros.
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Mondelez International, the US snacks group that owns Cadbury and Oreo, satisfied its taste for long dated sterling debt on Tuesday, reaching far out along the curve to issue a £400m 20 year bond.
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Geopolitical fears in the wake of the attacks on Paris over the weekend have been not enough to overcome the effect on futures prices of a large supply glut.
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Teva, the New York-listed Israeli pharmaceutical company, has completed and signed $33.75bn of loans for its acquisition of Allergan Generics.
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Chinese company Yirendai, an online consumer finance marketplace, is eyeing the New York Stock Exchange for a $100m IPO and has a filed a preliminary prospectus for the listing.
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US corporate bond issuance in Europe - so-called reverse Yankee bonds - has steadily regained strength this autumn and could be followed by issuers from elsewhere in the world selling euro bonds.
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Veritas Technologies, the Californian data storage company, has increased its high yield bond issue to make up for a disappointing loan financing. But initial price talk has yet to emerge.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, chose 21 banks to act as mandated lead arrangers for a $75bn mega loan — the largest ever corporate loan — but the firm coordinated all the banks itself in the unique acquisition financing.
