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Latest block this week in volatile conditions
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.
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  • Recent events have neatly illustrated the fickle state of market sentiment and suggest that a broad spectrum of borrowers in the corporate and bank finance markets should not waste time in getting their most difficult or important deals done while the window remains open.
  • Government-guaranteed loan schemes for SMEs have been rolled out across many developed economies, and now the most pressing part of the coronavirus crisis appears to be passing, policy makers are turning to the tricky question of who wears the losses. Securitization schemes could be deployed in the UK and elsewhere in Europe — but that can only tranche the risk, not make it disappear.
  • Europe’s corporate bond market burst into life on Tuesday with more than 10 primary deals on screens, as the US Federal Reserve’s plans to buy individual bonds brushed aside fears of a resurgence of Covid-19.
  • Saudi Arabia real estate financing company Amlak has announced the first IPO on the Tadawul stock exchange since the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
  • UK listed product inspection company Intertek is looking to sell US private placements, according to sources, as the market struggles to entice companies away from bond issuance and bank lending.
  • The US Federal Reserve deployed another tool from its arsenal yesterday: the ability to purchase individual corporate bonds. There is a strong belief in the markets that the central bank is acting, at least in part, to support equity markets, so why doesn’t it do so openly?