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ISSUERS hoping to launch new equity offerings early in the autumn have only a few days to decide whether or not to press ahead in the face of the current market turbulence, investment bankers warned this week. Traditionally the August lull in the equity new issue market ends with a bang at the start of September as issuers hurry to beat the annual autumn rush.

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INVESTORS will be offered their first chance to buy an inflation linked government bond in an Emu currency on September 15 when France launches the first OATi. The introduction of the inflation indexed bonds is the latest step in France's battle to add lustre to its government bond market ahead of Emu. Although most euro denominated transactions are priced over OATs, the strength of recent interest in Bund futures has underlined Germany's growing status as the benchmark issuer in the euro zone.

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AS THE CRISIS in Russia deepened this week investors continued to shun the high yield market, pushing bids down and spreads further out. Traders reported extremely thin trading volumes as investors steered clear of low credit products. "People are sitting on the sidelines and there just are not any buyers,' said one banker. "All the spread widening is not driven by people going bearish on credits but rather by the fact that people are not buying high yield at the moment. It is a pure demand/supply situation," said one analyst.

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India Arrangers ABN Amro Bank NV and BA Asia have launched a seven year, $37.445m bullet loan for Reliance Industries.

TRIBUTES have been coming in from all over the world for George Cornelissen, whose death from a heart attack while walking in the Austrian mountains with his family has shocked the Euromarkets. He was only 54 and at the pinnacle of a brilliant career. It wasn't simply that George Cornelissen was very popular, although he had a natural charm which enabled him to make friends very easily.

SPREAD widening of a degree not seen since the Gulf War has hit the US investment grade corporate bond market as the emerging market meltdown finally spread to even the world's best-rated bonds. Spreads on prime A-rated bonds issued by Ford and others have widened between 30bp to 40bp since last Friday, while Yankee bond premiums over US comparables have blown out from a usual range of zero to 5bp to as much as 15bp to 20bp.

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