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  • THE Republic of Argentina this week wrapped up all of its first quarter international borrowing requirements with room to spare and became the first emerging market issuer to raise 30 year dollar bonds since the October market collapse, with a $500m re-opening of its global bonds due 2027. The deal was discreetly brought to market by JP Morgan after spotting a technical advantage in the Argentine yield curve that had the 2027s trading five to 10bp tighter than its 2016s.
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  • BARCLAYS and Merrill Lynch have won the coveted mandate to arrange and underwrite a jumbo debt facility which will back Great Universal Stores' (GUS) bid for Argos. The mandate follows GUS's decision to make a hostile £1.67bn bid for the UK catalogue retailer. The two banks signed up to the deal on February 2, after a rapid award process that surprised many in the market.
  • THE HEAD of steam built up in the dollar primary market showed no sign of easing off as another unprecedented week of benchmark issuance dominated the Euromarkets. Frequent issuers are in no doubt that large, liquid bonds in the core currencies are what investors -- made nervous by the Asian crisis and valuing flexibility and quality above all else -- want to buy.
  • GLOBAL CO-ORDINATOR Merrill Lynch and joint lead manager UBS this week completed the sale of stock in Global Telesystems (GTS) in one of the first transactions this year from a corporate issuer. The company is incorporated in the state of Delaware in the US, but most of its assets are located in Russia and central Europe.
  • * Crédit Local de France
  • * Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades)
  • THE SWISS government this week revealed the structure for its forthcoming sale of Swisscom, likely to be one of the most important sales of telecom stock this year. Late last year it hired SBC Warburg Dillon Read and JP Morgan as joint global co-ordinators for the transaction. Goldman Sachs is acting as adviser to the government and ABN AMRO Rothschild is advising the company.
  • THE BRAZILIAN government was forced to delay its Telebras privatisation plans on the eve of announcing the final mandate winner this week when a consortium including Lehman Brothers and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson filed a complaint about the score received by a rival bidding group including Salomon Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Bankers will now have to wait another three weeks to find out who won the fee bidding phase of the process.