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Latest block this week in volatile conditions
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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  • One of the worst ever weeks in markets spared no asset class, and investors warned that Latin America’s mostly commodity-oriented economies were in a particularly bad spot as the region’s oil producers led EM losses in both corporates and sovereigns.
  • As the coronavirus pandemic threatens every facet of capital markets activity, trading floors and back offices have emptied in recent days, leading to questions about how efficiently business can be done from home and alternative sites, write Paola Aurisicchio, Jasper Cox, Jennifer Kang and Ross Lancaster.
  • Financial market tumult and global instability as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are hitting CLO primary issuance, while activity in the secondary market is accelerating as investors hunt for opportunities amid the chaos.
  • JP Morgan faced down a global market rout this week to print its first senior unsecured dollar bond of 2020, jumping ahead of Wall Street rivals before markets froze in fear over the coronavirus pandemic.
  • The world’s largest economy is, among advanced societies, the least prepared to deal with containing the spread of Covid-19. This will have grave repercussions for the global economy.
  • Governments and central banks failed to prevent fear from taking hold of the capital markets this week, as Covid-19 reached pandemic status. European equity indices faced record falls on Thursday, before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced a $500bn repo operation to combat "highly unusual disruptions" in the US Treasury market. But it is far from clear if such extraordinary intervention will be enough to stop the panic.