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  • THE BILLION shares-plus demutualisation of Australian Mutual Provident (AMP) will be launched in April or May and list on the Australian Stock Exchange in early June, according to a company spokesman. Institutional investors will be able to buy around 22.5% of the sale.
  • * Two further deals were launched in Hong Kong's active domestic currency market this week. Merrill Lynch came first with a HK$300m fixed rate offering for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development. With a one year maturity, the par priced issue carried a coupon of 12.625%, with fees totalling 10bp, split 2.5bp managers and underwriters 7.5bp selling.
  • Pakistan Standard & Poor's revised its sovereign outlook on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from stable to negative on Wednesday, although it stopped short of effecting a downgrade to the country's B+ long term rating. In a statement it said that the revised outlook reflected "a rising external debt burden and a growing dependence on short term funding."
  • * Asia lost its largest regional investment bank outside Japan this week when Peregrine Investment Holdings collapsed after Switzerland's Zurich group pulled out of a proposed $200m capital injection. After seeking help from the Hong Kong government and trying to formalise a last ditch $60m bridging loan from First Chicago Bank late last week, the group filed for liquidation on Monday.
  • PREMARKETING will begin on Monday for a roughly $130m privatisation of India's Container Corporation (Concor) led by JP Morgan. Bankers believe that the combined primary and secondary share offering is shaping up to be virtually the only equity transaction from Asia capable of completion in current market conditions. The sale will take place after the rupee and Indian stockmarket both came under renewed pressure this week.
  • DBS ASIA Capital's $40m IPO for Dalian Refrigeration Co is still hanging on as the B-Share market dropped to historical lows this week and the company finished its roadshow in Japan today (Friday). Analysts around the region added another challenge to the deal, saying that Dalian's price range is out of line with the market.
  • A 250m SECONDARY share offering by New York-listed Huaneng Power International (HPI) became the chief casualty of renewed volatility across Hong Kong markets this week, with the roughly $150m deal postponed by lead manager JP Morgan midway through roadshows. The failure of the H-share issue disappointed market participants, many of whom view the company as one of the strongest Chinese counters.
  • * Hungary may be the first central and eastern European sovereign to tap the Euromarkets this year, with the Baa3/BBB- rated issuer understood to have invited bids for a proposed DM500m five year floating rate note. Price talk is of a coupon level set at 50bp over DM Libor. This would represent a considerable cost saving over the last time the country tapped the Euro-DM market in April 1996 with a DM500m six year issue through its central bank, the National Bank of Hungary.
  • Market report Compiled by Gerard Perrignon, Hambros Bank Ltd, London. Tel: +44 171-865 1759
  • United States JP Morgan Securities Inc has closed a $650m facility for ACE Ltd. The loan is split into a $200m 364 day revolver, a five year $200m revolver and a seven year $250m term loan.
  • James Fenner has joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell's syndication team in London as a senior member. Fenner will concentrate on project finance syndications, after joining the team from DMG's London project finance group. Fenner played a key role in the £518m Barking Power refinancing. He will report to Richard Munn, head of loan syndications, London.
  • RANK Group PLC finally attained its goal of issuing 10 and 20 year Yankee bonds this week, with a two tranche $200m offering led by UBS Securities and Chase. The $100m 10 year tranche came at a spread of 101bp over Treasuries, from a 100bp to 105bp price talk, while the 20 year came at a spread of 132bp from a spread talk of 130bp.