Russia
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The Federal Reserve is losing confidence in the US economy, global economic growth is flagging and Treasury yields are staggeringly low. Emerging market assets, meanwhile, are full of beans, as low rates and healthy risk appetite provide a magic combination for EM companies looking to raise capital. But the Fed is worried for a reason: there’s trouble ahead, write Lewis McLellan and Sam Kerr. -
Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) broke a 16 year bond market hiatus with a five year dollar benchmark on Wednesday, raising $500m without paying a new issue premium.
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Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), the second largest steel producer in Russia, released price guidance for a $500m five year bond on Wednesday at a level that one EM investor said looked “interesting”.
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TCS Group Holding, the Russian financial services company owned by Oleg Tinkoff is to raise $300m in new GDRs to pursue profitable growth opportunities as its entrepreneurial owner takes advantage of continuing warm sentiment towards Russian equities.
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Russian potash fertiliser Uralkali has signed its five year $1.45bn-equivalent loan with 13 lenders joining the syndicate. With Uralkali and Suek now signed, lenders have started to prepare for EuroChem.
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Buyers of Russia sovereign bonds could get burned as the US contemplates new sanctions against the country. But it seems they and Russia's public debt officials have not made it to the end of HBO's Game of Thrones. Had they done so, they would have learned a valuable lesson. They must do so quickly.
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Renaissance Credit has announced its intention to come to market for a Reg S euro subordinated bond. The trade will be the borrower's first trip to the market in almost six years.
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To believe their PR, banks are now paragons of clean, sustainable economic development.
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The Russian sovereign could soon issue its next Eurobond, with both euros and dollars on the table. But if it does launch a deal, the move will be as much financing as it will be a political play to help defend the country from more US sanctions. Francesca Young reports.
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Siberian Coal Energy Co (Suek) is set to finally close a loan refinancing next week after a lengthy syndication process that bankers close to the deal blame on a growing number of lenders declining to finance coal-burning activities.
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GeoProMining Group, a mining company operating in Russia and Armenia, announced its first ever bond on Thursday — a Reg S dollar five year.
