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Investors looking at the World Bank’s pandemic bond are discounting the price in the expectation that its principal will be written down by the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, writes Jasper Cox. -
Concerns over the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak on the balance sheets of some of the biggest companies in the world led to four straight days of zero supply in the US high grade bond market this week.
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Corporate bond spreads swung wider again on Thursday, surprising some investors and bankers with the severity of the moves, after they thought investment grade credit had dodged some of the biggest hits when global securities started plunging at the start of the week.
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China Three Gorges Corp, the Chinese state-owned power company, has successfully offloaded €292m of stock in Portuguese energy firm Energias de Portugal, despite four straight days of heavy losses in European equity markets, due to the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus across the continent.
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Europe's high grade loan bankers are expecting better things from the second quarter of the year, citing the resolution of a handful of macro events. But the rise of the Covid-19 coronavirus hammered the markets this week, which has the potential to put companies off raising loan debt until the second half of the year.
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Hamburg Commercial Bank will no longer visit Milan on the roadshow for its new tier two bond, with parts of northern Italy having been locked down to contain the spread of Covid-19. But issuers and investors are still managing to get on with their business amid the mounting chaos.
