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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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Spain, picked up €3.5bn of 15 year paper on Tuesday in a deftly executed trade that drew praise from SSA bankers away from the mandate.
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Korea Finance Corporation distributed a request for proposal on July 8 for its first euro-denominated bond to take advantage of improving basis swaps, according to a treasury official at the government-owned financial institution. -
Ferrovie dello Stato, the Italian state-owned railway company, will begin a roadshow tomorrow for its first bond issue for nearly a decade, as it seeks to diversify its funding.
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Kingdom of Spain astonished SSA market participants on Monday afternoon, when it hired six banks to run a 15 year euro syndication, less than a week after fellow peripheral sovereign Portugal’s bond yields shot north of 8% on fears of a government collapse. The deal came on the same day as Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) announced a 10 year deal with bankers also expecting a deal from the EFSF.
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The Republic of Portugal’s capital markets future is on a knife-edge. A political falling out over the implementation of Portugal’s austerity package that surfaced this week could kill off the sovereign’s hopes of regaining market access before it needs to renegotiate an exit to its bail-out programme, even if its government manages to survive.
