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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 dollar market for sovereign, supranational and agency issuers goes from strength to strength, absorbing large issue sizes at increasingly aggressive spreads, leading some bankers to ask what could derail this flourishing market.
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The Korea Development Bank (KDB) made its first foray into the euro market since 2007 on Wednesday with a €500m five year bond. The borrower’s attempt to appeal to European investment grade buyers rather than its traditional Asian and domestic investor base allowed it to achieve a pricing 15bp through initial price thoughts (IPTs). Next from the country could well be a dollar deal from the sovereign, which is looking to market itself in the UK and the US.
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The Slovak Republic was on Thursday set to print its second euro benchmark trade of the year. Bakers away from the deal said that the ECB repo eligibility of the trade and the drive for yield will allow the borrower to print at a tight level when the trade is priced.
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Spanish yields jumped around 20bp at an auction of three year, five year and 15 year debt on Thursday, as investors — having poured into eurozone periphery debt with gusto over the last year — digested comments from the US Federal Reserve and weak overnight data from China.