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Abbott Laboratories plundered $20bn as it led a trio of drug companies which printed jumbo bonds as a deluge of supply in the dollar market ensured a red-hot end to the month.
Eight banks provided loan facility to company
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Amid warnings about a looming debt crisis in emerging markets, bond investors this week hailed Ecuador as an example to follow in sovereign restructurings, while continuing their showdown with Argentina. Ecuador’s market-friendly philosophy appears to be paying dividends over Argentina’s more confrontational approach, but not every issuer is likely to follow its precedent, writes Oliver West.
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Conditionality has become a central area of contention as the EU shapes its coronavirus recovery plan. The bloc should focus on the environment, not on fiscal responsibility.
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UK universities face financial peril. Having been shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, some risk going bust, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Meanwhile, as accommodation operators grant refunds to students who are locked out and locked down, CMBS deals backed by student accommodation may survive, if sufficient numbers return to residences when the next academic year begins. Silas Brown and Tom Brown report.
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UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak announced a stimulus package totalling up to £30bn on Wednesday, driving a wedge between some bankers and investors about how big an impact the measures will have on the capital markets.
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Hansa Biopharma, the Swedish pharmaceuticals company, raised Skr1.1bn ($121m) through a sale of new shares on Wednesday evening to fund the launch of a new drug for patients undergoing kidney transplants.
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Argentina’s largest bondholders on Wednesday evening dashed hopes that the government’s new improved restructuring offer would achieve mass take-up. But some investors took hope from the tone of the creditors’ statement.