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The strong CLO volumes, both new issue and repricings of existing deals, has started to weigh on spreads, softening pricing across mezzanine tranches over the last 10 days, signaling that demand is started to be overwhelmed by the heavy supply.

Covid-19 has made combining market-friendly economic policy with retaining popular support even trickier than usual for Latin America's politicians. In turn, it has become harder for bondholders to read the political tea leaves when weighing up where their money is best parked. For instance, investors who once loved Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil are now high-tailing it to other markets, including El Salvador, where another populist has just won power. In a busy year for LatAm elections, and with the pandemic still raging, allocating capital in the region's bond markets will be trickier than usual.

Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch food retailer, has mandated banks for a debut sustainability-linked bond, as it continues to push its capital structure towards socially conscious financing.

Heathrow, the London airport, landed a solidly executed £350m seven year bond on Tuesday, carried by the strong tailwind of the UK moving out of coronvirus lockdown.

Bookrunners for APA Group, the Australian gas and electricity company, had a rough time in the euro and sterling bond markets on Tuesday, and they only managed to nudge spreads tighter.

The secondary Schuldschein market, typically something of a backwater, has become a torrent of activity and is now busier than the product’s primary market, according to several sources, as banks rush to buy assets ahead of an ECB deadline for cheap funding on March 31. However, there are fewer banks deleveraging from their risk-weighted assets, and many more buyers than sellers.

The rise in US Treasury yields in reaction to the government's $1.9tr stimulus package has prompted a shift in equity markets away from highly valued tech stocks that may do less well if interest rates rise as a result of higher inflation. But if the switch means investor portfolios reflect the wider economy, that is a positive development.

Gilt-Edged Market Makers (GEMMs) and investors expressed their support for the UK Debt Management Office to issue a new 30 year Gilt as the first syndication of its new 2021/22 financial year.

The European Union completed another chunk from its Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme on Tuesday, leaving the issuer with up to €13bn more to raise before the end of March.

Lone Star is refinancing and pricing the debt incurred for its buyout of BASF Construction Chemicals, one of the bridges hung during the first peak of the Covid crisis a year ago. The original deal required creativity to cross the line, plus a hefty private placement with GSO. Now, however, it looks set to slice up to 100bp off the euro margin, and more from the GSO deal.

Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, March 8. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.

NatWest Group returned to the sterling market on Tuesday to print its second additional tier one (AT1) deal in the currency, just four months after its first.