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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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  • Suriname asked bondholders for more time to reach a crucial agreement with the IMF on Wednesday evening, requesting investors extend a previously agreed holiday on all bond payments.
  • Moody’s became the third rating agency in four months to downgrade Panama’s sovereign rating, cutting the borrower from Baa1 to Baa2 on Wednesday afternoon on the back of an “unusually large” erosion of the country’s fiscal strength during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • IAG has launched a dual tranche euro bond — its first since the pandemic struck — following an extensive round of actions to shore up its balance sheet in the face of plunging airline passenger traffic.
  • The International Monetary Fund said in the concluding statement of last week’s Article IV mission to Belize that the government needs to restructure its debts to restore public debt sustainability, leaving bondholders bracing for a fifth credit event since 2007.
  • Cellink, the Swedish developer of 3D printing equipment for living cells, rose in trading on Friday morning after the company completed a Skr3bn ($350m) sale of new shares and convertible bonds to finance its acquisition of MatTek Corporation in the United States.
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    One big crisis should be enough for anyone's career. But Sir Robert Stheeman, chief executive of the UK's Debt Management Office, has had to face two monumental financial catastrophes in the last 13 years — first the 2008 UK banking crisis and then last year's pandemic.