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Bloc steals focus in euro market this week as World Bank's IDA brings SEC-exempt debut in dollars
◆ Issuer's first sterling deal since Feb 2024 ◆ Large order book, decent levels ◆ Enough peer comps to build curve
New label and attractive relative value of French agency paper allow large spread tightening
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The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen priced a €750m 2049 trade on Tuesday, stretching out its curve by 10 years to become the second German SSA bond issuer in as many weeks to borrow for longer in able to offer a positive yield to investors. -
UniCredit has hired a new head of trading for sovereigns, supranationals and agencies to its European government bond trading desk in Milan.
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Irish government bonds are unlikely to come under severe pressure in the event of a no-deal Brexit according to analysts, which would result in the UK leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement and the creation of a hard border in Ireland.
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Volumes are growing across the spectrum in the Scandinavian MTN markets, as issuers and bankers return from their summer holidays. Meanwhile, bankers are expecting Scandinavian investors to move further out along the credit curve in response to negative yields as dovish Nordic central bank tones could lead to a bullish Scandinavian market.
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Rising expectations of a snap Italian election before the end of the year are threatening to send the spread between 10 year Bunds and BTPs wider by as much as 250bp, according to analysts.
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The rout of the incumbent president Mauricio Macri in the first round of the Argentina elections has investors worried. Argentina’s debt, and that of other 'vulnerable' credits, suffered a huge sell-off early on Monday. But bankers believe that it was not so bad that the primary market will not reopen in September.
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