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Monday evening sale is latest block trade
◆ Danish biotech prints three tranches along the curve ◆ Seven year bond proves the sweet spot ◆ Proceeds to refinance €1.5bn acquisition bridge
Sfr4.9bn trade is largest European ECM deal since National Grid’s £7bn rights issue in 2024
Offer came as markets recovered and volatility fell
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Italy and the European Union will reboot the euro public sector bond market on Wednesday after announcing syndications of new 10 and 15 year bonds, respectively. The deals will come ahead of the European Central Bank’s meeting on Thursday, in which it is widely expected to increase the size of its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp). -
Repsol, the Spanish oil major, had a rip-roaring time in the hybrid capital bond market on Tuesday, achieving bumper books and paying minimal new issue concessions for its dual tranche issue. But some bankers think the market is starting to look too exuberant and may be due a correction.
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Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, flattened its curve on Tuesday with a €3.5bn three tranche bond issue that commanded €15.1bn of demand. But European syndicate bankers said it offered no read-across for whether airlines might return to the bond market soon and that their chances of doing a deal were distant.
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Germany is set to announce extra fiscal stimulus next week, a portion of which will be dealt with at regional level. But one state treasury official does not believe it will affect his Land's borrowing programme.
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European corporates are asking lenders to switch their loans to semi-annual interest payments, in some cases, which could feed through to CLO coupons as well.
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Amadeus, the Spanish travel booking group, has signed a €1bn bridge loan to bolster its liquidity supplies through the coronavirus crisis, though some bankers expect the number of crisis loans being signed to shrink in the coming weeks.
