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The pricing of AyT Cédulas Cajas Global's 10 year issue this week cemented the Spanish covered bond market's tighter levels. The Eu2bn deal was priced 1.5bp inside where AyT's Eu2.28bn 10 year issue was priced in December.
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Barclays Capital regained top spot on table two this week after a flurry of own name issuance in emerging currencies — it has been strong in Brazilian real and Mexican peso structures — as well as vanilla trades for third parties.
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In stark contrast with last week, confidence in the Swiss franc bond market showed signs of erosion in the last seven days.
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US broker-dealers are trading in the CDS market as triple-B credits as a result of the subprime mortgage jitters, even though most are rated strong single-A or double-A.
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From sunny Zurich, where the senior citizens do not shed their winter coats until July 1, we have received the first draft report from our friend, who believes that he is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He has been sniffing around the Credit Suisse trail with his faithful bloodhound, Bullseye.
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Volatility in the equity and credit markets continued to take its toll this week, leaving issuers little room to manœuvre when it came to executing deals. However, some borrowers were undeterred and Eu2.4bn of new bonds hit the European corporate bond market this week.
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The average small UK shareholder in HSBC, whose preferred reading may be Farmers Weekly, rather than the Wall Street Journal, was probably not disappointed with the bank's recent results.
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Alliance Bank and ATF Bank, two expansionist Kazakh banks, hope to raise $500m and $350m by launching IPOs in Kazakhstan and London in the second half of 2007, EuroWeek has learned.
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Who shot Ken Karl, the UBS Investment Bank wizard who was right up there in John Costas's batting order at Dillon Read Capital Management, the bank's alternative investments group?
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The increasing presence of LBO risk from ambitious and cash-rich private equity firms accounts for many of the changes to the new CDX Investment Grade Index, which rolls on March 20. Out go EOP Operating, RadioShack, Clear Channel Communications, Sabre Holdings, Harrahs and The Gap, it was announced this week.