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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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State-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras finally brought some bond supply from Brazil on Wednesday but, as the new issue traded down on the break, bankers said few Latin American issuers were likely to be persuaded of the benefits of tapping international markets in the short term. -
ABS investors watched nervously last week as car rental company Hertz filed for bankruptcy, with few good options to keep cash flowing in the face of a crisis that has curtailed travel and depressed used car values. However, sources say that there are a number of reasons investors should be pinning their hopes on a reorganization rather than a liquidation.
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Private sector involvement in suspending debt servicing for the world's poorest countries to alleviate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic progressed this week, with the Institute of International Finance (IIF) publishing guidelines for such an initiative. But countries face a long and tortuous path to reach tangible relief, write Ross Lancaster and Oliver West.
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The European Commission delivered its proposal for Next Generation EU on Wednesday, marking a sea change in the bloc’s relationship with the capital markets as it proposes truly shared borrowing to finance expenditure for the first time. The move could make the Commission the biggest supranational and agency borrower by some distance, Lewis McLellan reports.
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May has been another stellar month for US corporate bond issues, but issuance is expected to fall sharply as lockdown restrictions start to be lifted and international political concerns return to centre stage.
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Loans packaged into US commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) delinquent by 30 days or more have quadrupled, according to remittance reports published in May, as the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the financial system. Market participants fear record levels of distress if borrowers that are now in their grace periods add to the figures in the coming month, writes Max Adams.
