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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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SSA bankers are scrambling for any investor interest they can muster as primary market activity slowed to a trickle this week. The new issue premiums that issuers paid last week have persuaded issuers and dealers that there is not enough investor interest to attempt new benchmarks. They are turning their attention instead to taps and arbitrage funding.
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Banque Centrale de Tunisie, the central bank of Tunisia, priced a 10 year Samurai bond on Wednesday guaranteed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. The size fell short and the pricing wide of the issuer’s last Samurai deal, though bankers involved with the trade said the result was positive given the instability in North Africa throughout 2013. The deal followed Mexico’s own triple-tranche Samurai deal, which was priced on Tuesday.
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Mexico priced its triple tranche Samurai on Tuesday morning, beating the levels the sovereign last paid for yen in May. But spreads over yen swaps were at the wide end of guidance for the 2016s and close to the wide end for the 2018s and 2019s.
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Mexico priced its triple tranche Samurai on Tuesday morning, beating the levels the sovereign last paid for yen in May. But spreads over yen swaps were at the wide end of guidance for the 2016s and close to the wide end for the 2018s and 2019s.
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Italy attracted healthy demand and lowered its funding costs at an auction of medium to long term debt on Tuesday, despite the sale being held against the backdrop of a supreme court appeal hearing that analysts warned could destabilise the country’s coalition government.
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Hungary's Export Import Bank is still taking orders for the €400m dual tranche euro deal that it opened last week and released an official announcement on Monday showing guidance unchanged.