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'Everyone is ready for summer to be over' as SSA wave builds for Monday
Analysts discuss the scope of tightening in Bund swap spreads and the impact on SSA spreads
OATs and OLOs could weaken further versus Bunds while southern European countries and EU continue to paint a positive picture
Uncertainty looms large as presidential race far from clear and budget negotiations potentially ‘highly challenging’
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The Republic of Italy will opt for a eurozone inflation-linked trade if it comes back with another syndication this year, EuroWeek can reveal, although the well-funded issuer could rely on its auction programme until the new year.
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New opportunities for issuers of dollar callable zeros could open up in the coming months, with Taiwanese life insurance companies — the main buyer of the product — tipped to look overseas to combat low domestic interest rates.
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Korea Western Power became the country’s first power utility to sell a Swiss franc-denominated bond as issuers seek alternative markets with lower funding costs amid volatility in the US dollar space.
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Central Nippon Expressway Company priced a $1bn five year deal on August 28 that lured investors in with a comfortable premium over similarly-rated Japanese credits in its first outing in the dollar bond market.
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Argentina outlined a new debt plan this week after the New York Appeals Court ruled that the sovereign must pay the holdout bondholders who refused to participate in two earlier restructurings if it pays holders of its restructured debt. But analysts think elements of the plan are unworkable and have only served to increase uncertainty over how the situation will be resolved.
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Barbados has chosen banks for a bond deal of up to $500m coupled with an liability management exercise, according to LatAm debt bankers.