Société Générale
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Vestas Wind Systems, the unrated Danish wind turbine manufacturer, priced a €500m bond on Wednesday after being forced to revise its pricing and format aims. -
Madrid has raised 15 year cash with its second bond in as many weeks — and the borrower’s sovereign could break its yield record at a similar tenor on Thursday.
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Edenred, the French prepayment services company, issued a €500m 10 year bond on Tuesday to fund its €150m acquisition of 34% of Germany’s Union Tank Eckstein, and to refinance debt.
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Vimpelcom has announced a buyback of up to $2.1bn of eight of its Eurobonds
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Three chunky equity block trades were launched this evening – in Safran, Merlin Entertainments and Veolia – after all three companies’ shares had hit 52 week highs today.
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Spain brought a record breaking 15 year benchmark this week that may have helped drive other eurozone sovereign yields to all-time lows.
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Lebanon sold its largest ever new money issue on Monday, printing an $800m 10 year and $1.4bn 15 year from combined books of $4.9bn.
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UniCredit issued its inaugural conditional pass through covered bond on Thursday flat to where it would have priced a deal from its soft bullet programme.
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A trio of issuers took advantage of a lack of senior supply this week to price deals with drastically reduced new issue premiums compared to January.
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Snacks and coffee maker Mondelez was one of a string of US companies to access the European bond market this week when it priced €2.6bn of euro and sterling bonds on Wednesday.
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Spain scored its lowest coupon and biggest deal in the 15 year part of the curve on Wednesday, as eurozone periphery sovereigns enjoyed enviable conditions.
