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Eurozone government bond yields jumped higher early on Wednesday morning, unmoved by reports of a potential breakthrough for the issuance of common EU debt instruments. The European Central Bank is suspected to have stepped in to try and control the situation, with spreads to Bunds having moved to their widest points for a year or more. -
Shanghai Titan Scientific, Speechocean and Easton Biopharmaceuticals are all planning to make a second attempt at listing on Shanghai’s Star market.
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Executing bond syndications from home has proved to be feasible, bankers said in the wake of Royal Bank of Canada’s five year covered bond issued on Tuesday. Even so, the lack of physical back-up from nearby colleagues and the seamless access to certain key functions such as trading means that working from home is very much second best in practice compared with normality.
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Market participants are debating whether the EU is responding quickly and strongly enough in the coronavirus crisis, after the bloc put off the question of how to involve the European Stability Mechanism on Monday evening.
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The Philippine Stock Exchange suspended all trading on Tuesday, after the country’s president announced stricter coronavirus quarantine measures for Luzon, the northern island home to the capital Manila.
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The Federal Reserve cut rates for a second time this month on Sunday by 100bp, bringing the target range to near zero. Despite the central bank taking swift action to halt the market decline caused by Covid-19, sources are expecting a painful recession if fiscal policies are not implemented to blunt the impact to the most vulnerable parts of the economy.
