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The coronavirus has made fantastical numbers commonplace in the corporate bond market. Everywhere one looks, results are being published that in any other time would herald the sudden collapse of companies. But you wouldn’t guess that from looking at the corporate bond market. -
Boeing attracted a staggering $70bn of demand as it raised $25bn in the dollar bond market on Thursday, a sum that could fulfil all its funding needs this year.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) gave lenders even more of an incentive to use its Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO) this week, dropping the potential rate of funding down to minus 1%. But the unveiling of a new unconditional lending scheme set tongues wagging, with market participants debating which banks might use the money and what they might put it towards, writes Tyler Davies.
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Funding needs of regions across Europe are expected to rise this year as borrowers fund responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Spanish and German regions in particular will face heavier borrowing requirements.
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Lee Buchheit is a veteran of sovereign debt restructuring and is considered by many to be a world expert in the field. He has worked on debt restructuring among many of the emerging markets countries, including Argentina, Greece and Venezuela. GlobalCapital caught up with him this week to discuss the debt crisis gripping the EM universe, and how private sector creditors should approach requests for debt standstills.
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Corporate bond market participants are trying to decipher what the market will look like once lockdowns start lifting across Europe. A hierarchy of industries is forming in terms of access to capital markets, with those from a handful of major global sectors expected to remain shut out for a long while yet. Mike Turner reports.
