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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 Poland is set to price a benchmark-sized tap of its €1.75bn 3.375% July 2024 bond on Monday afternoon, after receiving more than €1.1bn of orders during this morning’s bookbuild.
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Lebanon launched an exchange for up to $1.525bn of bonds on Friday, hoping to retrieve notes maturing in 2013 and issue longer dated paper.
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Korean policy banks have long been assured of a warm welcome in the dollar market from investors eager for quality, but the market has had one flaw: it has offered little in the way of short maturities. Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) turned that tradition on its head this week, pricing a $1bn three year deal that it hopes will usher in more short-term deals from its peers.
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The Republic of the Philippines returned to the global peso bond market last week, bringing in the money it needs to buy back a swathe of outstanding bonds.
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With large scale anti-austerity protests turning violent in Madrid this week, the debate about the future of Spanish sovereign funding and the country’s market access intensified. Although bond market participants are adamant — despite much of the noise from the country’s government itself — that Spain will take a bail-out, there is complete discord as to when this might be and what form it might take.
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Transport for London (TfL) launched its third syndicated trade of the year on Wednesday, the latest step on the path towards the agency’s goal of achieving a liquid curve. However, despite syndicate banker’s insistence that it is the superior credit, it still priced 7bp wide of Germany’s national railway company and comparable issuer, Deutsche Bahn.