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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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Deutsche Lufthansa deferred the coupon on its hybrid debt, surprising the market and sending the bonds spiralling down almost nine points. The company said the decision came as the coupon payment would have violated state aid rules in relation to Lufthansa’s bail-out from the German government.
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French hotel landlord Convivio Hotels has launched a €250m rights issue ahead of the reopening of EU countries to foreign tourists this summer.
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Singapore Airlines is planning to raise S$6.2bn ($4.6bn) from a rights offering of mandatory convertible bonds.
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Colombia’s credit rating was finally downgraded to sub-investment grade on Wednesday evening, as many had expected it to be. But it was Standard & Poor’s — not Fitch, as most had anticipated — that moved first.
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Argentine sovereign bonds rallied for a third consecutive day on Tuesday amid expectations that the Paris Club group of official creditors will show leniency over a looming $2.4bn payment. But some in the market saw more value in the country's provincial bonds, and the Province of Buenos Aires hinted after the close that it is edging closer to agreement with its bondholders after more than a year in default.
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Leveraged loan investors that took a punt on Carnival’s rescue financing last year are set for a huge payout, as the cruise operator looks to reprice its term loan Bs.