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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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Russia is likely to wait until autumn before bringing its mandated sovereign bond, said analysts. Forcing through a $7bn bond in one deal might also be unwise, but demand is deep and the sovereign could spread its funding plan out across separate transactions, said bankers.
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Italy auctioned term debt on Thursday, the day after it sold bills at the highest levels since March. This week’s sell-off boosted demand, allowing Italy to hit its maximum target size for the auction of the longest bond on offer — a 4.75% September 2028.
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Italian 12 month borrowing costs rose to their highest level since March on Wednesday, as the prospect of reduced central bank liquidity weighed on investors’ minds. An even tougher task looms on Thursday, when the sovereign sells €3.5bn-€5bn of three year and 15 year debt.
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Lead managers on Slovakia’s upcoming Samurai trade have announced that the deal will be reduced to two tranches from three, with the expected 10 year tranche being the victim. The remaining two tranches, with three and five year maturities, are scheduled to be priced next Tuesday.
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A small number of issuers remain open to the possibility of new benchmark deals - despite the weak sentiment in markets - as all eyes are focussed on the FOMC meeting next week to assess what levels of Quantitative Easing the Federal Reserve's chairman, Ben Bernanke, is willing to provide. But talk of a market access crisis is premature, said bankers, given SSA borrowers are flush with cash having front-loaded issuance programmes.
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Standard & Poor’s warned of a weakening of Brazil’s fiscal performance and a greater government debt burden as it placed the sovereign’s BBB rating on a negative outlook.