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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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Zur Rose, a Swiss online pharmacy group, revived the primary equity-linked bond market in Europe this week, issuing a debut Sfr175m five year convertible bond as demand for its services increases amid the Covid-19 crisis. -
The European Central Bank announced on Wednesday night that it would be removing the self-imposed limits on its holdings of sovereign debt for its €750bn pandemic emergency purchase programme. The news drove an impressive reduction in the spread to Bunds on government bonds from the eurozone periphery.
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Spain led the way back into primary bond markets in no uncertain terms this week, raising a staggering €10bn of seven year cash and demonstrating that, in spite of the worst bear market in history, investors are still happy to buy at the right price. Pablo de Ramón-Laca Clausen, director-general of the Spanish treasury, talked to GlobalCapital about the experience.
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New issue concessions have tumbled in the high grade corporate bond market today. French industrial gases company Air Liquide has rewritten this week's rules by pricing a bond through its own curve on Thursday.
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A loan backing a post-crisis UK CMBS has suffered its second event of default (EOD) in 12 months, after being cured once. The Maroon Properties backing the deal saw a valuation decrease of £17.1m, triggering a loan to value covenant breach on Wednesday.
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The 2008 financial crisis forged a generation of investment bankers well versed in advising governments — and with many having returned to banking, they are likely to be in demand again. But history suggests banks will not be earning lucrative fees, writes David Rothnie.
