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New EU deal and year's final sovereign syndications move into focus amid continued yield sell-offs
New label and attractive relative value of French agency paper allow large spread tightening
Issuer now 80% funded for the year, keeps eyes open for opportunities across currencies
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The World Bank has launched a public data portal providing environmental, social and governance information on sovereign governments — an area of the capital market that investors often find it harder to analyse from an ESG point of view. -
The African Development Bank will massively increase the size of its funding programme in the coming years, after approving the largest capital increase in its history.
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The European Central Bank’s (ECB) overarching presence in the covered bond market was conspicuous this week but, with relative value waning and yields likely to fall, it may not prevent spread widening early next year. There was evidence of its hand too in the corporate bond market. Bill Thornhill, Burhan Khadbai and Mike Turner report.
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KfW was the only public sector borrower to sell a new issue in the primary syndicated bond market this week, as it raised $1bn with an intra-day trade ahead of the US Federal Reserve cut rates for a third time this year.
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Central American development bank Cabei sold its first green bond in the public markets on Thursday, increasing the size of its five year floating rate note from $300m to $375m after attracting nearly $1bn of orders.
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How will Mario Draghi be remembered? As the bazooka-toting president of the European Central Bank who vowed to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the euro, dragging the eurozone through the sovereign debt crisis? Perhaps, but his monetary policy experiment could yet have a dreadful cost that will not be counted for many years.
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