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Meanwhile, LatAm sovereign announces mandate for a multi-tranche deal that could come next week
The slide in French government bonds this week raises concerns for the country's banks and companies
Budget crisis may give way to election agony
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The Republic of Albania returned to the capital markets for the first time in three years on Tuesday, selling a euro benchmark. -
Papua New Guinea’s dollar bond sale last week was a landmark for the sovereign, which had toyed with the idea of an issuance for more than a decade. But while PNG deserves praise, its success does not reflect a victory for emerging markets.
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The Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China has mandated 12 banks to work on its planned $3bn return to the bond market, which could come next week.
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Work to clarify thinking about impact in investment – meaning its effects on society or the environment – is going on apace. The International Finance Corp will launch next week at the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Bali a set of Operating Principles for Impact Management, which are designed to complement the framework for analysing impact produced by the Impact Management Project.
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Italy’s latest political drama is making investors nervous, and rightly so — when the leader of a country’s main governing party accuses European leaders of market ‘terrorism’, in the vein of an ‘EU equals the USSR’ conspiracy theorist, then you’d be right to dump its bonds. But the steadiness of Spanish and Portuguese govvies through all this shows not only that the term ‘eurozone periphery’ may have to be consigned to the historical dustbin, but that the firewalls erected by those same European leaders after the last sovereign debt crisis are standing firm.
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Asian Development Bank was aggressive with the pricing of its inaugural Sonia-linked floater on Tuesday by offering no new issue premium, according to SSA bankers. Nevertheless, the supranational was able to attract more than ample interest, allowing it to increase the size of the deal.
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