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Korea Development Bank has re-emerged as a potential bidder for a stake in Lehman Brothers, despite comments from Korea’s top financial regulator last week that such an investment was too risky for a state-owned institution.
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The chairman of Korea’s Financial Services Commission poured cold water on any plans the Korea Development Bank may have had to acquire a stake in Lehman Brothers this week, arguing that a state-owned bank, albeit one which is due to be privatised, should not take such risks.
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A noose of market speculation and rumour tightened around Lehman Brothers this week pushing five year default protection on the venerable New York investment bank wider by 70bp to 375bp — equivalent to a lowly double B rated credit.
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"The general question is: have you taken sufficient write-downs? The reason I ask is there are cases of other top management officials at other companies saying they were finished and then other quarters, they had big writedowns again." Michael Mayo, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, presses Dick Fuld, chief executive of Lehman Brothers, about the bank’s calculations of its subprime and illiquid assets during a conference call on Monday.
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Both the euro and the dollar bond markets offered investors the widest range of credits to choose from this week as bankers continued to marvel at the astonishing tone of the major currency sectors in the first few weeks of 1999 and the wide variety of credits tapping them. Emerging market issuers made a welcome return to the international bond markets. Latin issuers continued to search for novel ways to raise funds, with Argentina raising $1bn of bonds with warrants and Pemex a similar amount in bonds linked to oil receivables.
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THE EXPORT-Import Bank of Japan led the return of the country's government guaranteed issuers to the international debt markets this week by launching $1bn of five year floating rate notes. Jexim's blow-out deal provided the first ray of light for Japan's beleaguered borrowers in months. The financial, economic and political weaknesses of Japan's credit led to a sharp repricing of Japanese government guaranteed issuers (JGGIs) throughout 1998, and culminated in the year end loss of the country's Aaa rating from Moody's.