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Chilean telecoms company Entel will meet investors from Monday to Wednesday ahead of a planned 144A/Reg S bond of up to $800m.

Europe’s corporate bond market was knocked sideways on Thursday by a gust of fear about peripheral Europe, after problems deepened at Portugal's Banco Espírito Santo. The market has not shut down, but ACS, the Spanish construction company, pulled a deal and no issuer managed to price tighter than its initial thoughts.

Ferrovial, the Spanish company that calls itself the world’s leading private investor in transport infrastructure, issued a €300m 10 year bond on Tuesday, in a tough market.

Galp Energia, the Portuguese oil and gas company, issued on Monday its first bond since November, and was able to tighten the pricing to a slim new issue premium despite cool markets.

Carrefour, the French supermarket group, launched its first bond issue on Monday for over a year. Despite markets being weaker than last week, the deal attracted a much bigger book than any of last week’s issues.

Chilean state copper company Codelco priced its debut euro-denominated bond issue inside where it could have priced a dollar deal on Wednesday, according to a banker on the deal, as European corporate buyers jumped at the chance for some EM-flavoured yield.

Chilean state copper company Codelco became the latest in a run of EM issuers to debut in euros on Wednesday, taking advantage of strong demand for yield and a beneficial basis swap to price inside where it could have priced a dollar bond, according to a banker on the deal.

Chilean copper company Codelco has set the final spread for the a 10 year euro issue at 93bp over mid-swaps, inside the 95bp-100bp range indicated earlier on Wednesday. The deal’s size is indicated at around €500m, but has not been set, said a syndicate official.

Odebrecht’s oil and gas arm reopened recently issued perpetual notes on Tuesday, taking advantage of a strong market to raise another $150m in an opportunistic trade.

Wm Morrison Supermarkets, the UK’s fourth largest food retailer, issued a £300m 15 year bond last Friday (June 27), which reaffirmed the bond market’s continued support of the company despite its widely known operating difficulties.

Mexican state oil company Pemex pounced on very strong market conditions to reopen its peso-denominated global depositary notes on Thursday, attracting MP57bn ($4.4bn) of demand for a MP11bn tap to continue the run of major new issues in Latin America.

Brazilian construction group OAS provided the latest allocation headache for LatAm syndicate bankers after investors placed $3.6bn of orders for a trade of just $400m on Wednesday.