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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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  • Airline bonds have sold off in the secondary market as the industry faces another wave of new restrictions to combat Covid-19 variants.
  • Orient Overseas (International) has scooped up HK$932.5m ($120.3m) from a top-up placement, increasing the deal on strong anchor investor demand. Two other Hong Kong-listed companies, both from the healthcare sector, also turned to investors on Thursday.
  • Mongolian Mortgage Corp's (MIK) dollar bond market return was cancelled on Thursday after pandemic-related protests forced the country's prime minister to resign.
  • Several industries once popular with direct lenders have struggled to cope through the coronavirus. Now, direct lenders say they have toughened terms for borrowers from these sectors.
  • JD Wetherspoon, the UK pub chain, tapped equity investors for £93.7m ($128m) on Tuesday to help see it through the country’s third Covid-19 lockdown. The company is likely to be the first of a number of issuers that seek to raise primary equity capital in the next few months in order to manage the disruption, according to senior equity market sources.
  • Biogroup LCD is planning to refinance its full capital structure and tap the bond market for the first time after a string of recent debt-funded acquisitions. The French lab testing company was a notable casualty of the first wave of Covid-induced market chaos, forced to postpone its plans for a loan in March and then having to pay up when it returned for the financing in June.