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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
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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Carnival Cruises, the world’s largest leisure travel company, is rolling the dice on a coronavirus rescue package, launching a $1.25bn underwritten rights issue, $1.75bn convertible bond, and a $3bn dual currency high yield bond. -
Portugal will be hoping to mirror the success of Belgium after the latter smashed records in the public sector bond market on Tuesday with the biggest ever order book for an SSA borrower in euros. Both Portugal and Belgium have announced an anticipated increase to their 2020 funding programmes as result of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Investment grade companies have rushed back to the bond market, while syndicate bankers in riskier and more complex asset classes are wondering when their turns will come. Yum Brands reopened US high yield on Monday, leaving European high yield desks hoping a bold issuer would try this side of the Atlantic. Euro buyers were teased a piece of Carnival's rescue package, but lost out to a strong dollar market.
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Royal Dutch Shell has signed a $12bn credit line, three months after securing a similarly sized deal, as the Anglo-Dutch oil major builds up its cash pile in the face of plunging oil demand and prices.
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Turkey has joined the list of emerging market countries experimenting with quantitative easing programmes in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis engulfing conventional funding markets.
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JP Morgan’s chief investment office is likely to be the main anchor buyer in the £1.29bn senior tranche of a new UK RMBS, the second slug of a portfolio sold by the UK government’s bad bank last year. The deal, officially priced on Tuesday, was executed at levels determined before the coronavirus panic blew out spreads for UK mortgage bonds.
