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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.
Eight banks provided loan facility to company
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Central American sovereign Belize could be at risk of requiring yet another rescheduling of its bond payments, said analysts, as its debt reaches unsustainable levels and with the temporary relief that creditors granted earlier in the pandemic likely to be insufficient. -
JD Health International has hit the road with an up-to HK$27bn ($3.5bn) Hong Kong IPO, set to be the largest primary listing in the city this year.
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A wider market rally boosted by positive vaccine news from Pfizer, Moderna and the University of Oxford has begun feeding into the European CLO market, tightening secondary spreads while primary markets remain more sluggish.
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Peru grabbed the bond market’s attention on Monday with a $4bn triple-tranche issue including a 100 year bond despite the country being on its third president this month. But the country’s public treasury director said it was the all-in yield, not the desire to make headlines, that drove Peru to become the fourth Latin American borrower ever to sell a century bond.
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German flag carrier Lufthansa mandated a new unsecured bond on Monday, two weeks after it stormed into the convertible market on the back of the rally sparked by positive Covid-19 vaccine trials. The airline might have lost its investment grade ratings, but it is sticking to high grade bond execution norms, prepping a Reg S-only unsecured issue from its EMTN shelf.
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The Ivory Coast has sparked life into what has been a bleak year for sub-Saharan African bond issuance. Most sovereigns have turned to the official sector to support them throughout the coronavirus crisis as a result of being priced out of the international debt capital markets, bankers said.
