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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
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The Provinces of British Columbia and Ontario grabbed the opportunity to issue new benchmarks this week in a market gasping for Libor-plus SSA supply.
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Rentenbank capitalised on the feeding frenzy for high grade dollar assets paying Libor plus spreads and expectations that it would soon benefit from an explicit state guarantee to complete its benchmark programme for the year with a well oversubscribed seven year global bond.
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Sovereign, supranational and agency deals continue to price through borrowers’ secondary curves with well oversubscribed books in dollars and achieve heavy oversubscription. This is pushing bankers to encourage their clients to pre-fund for 2013. But the deal pipeline for the remainder of the year looks thin and only a few issuers are looking to get started early on next year’s funding tasks.
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The Republic of Slovenia will launch a 10 year dollar note on Friday in what will be a test of demand for the sovereign whose government is working to reform its banking sector.
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A lack of competing supply and some Sfr1bn of redemptions allowed Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OKB) to tap its recent September 2021 bonds for more than originally planned this week. Despite pricing flat to its curve, the Austrian export credit agency added Sfr200m to the 1% deal, having originally targeted a Sfr100m trade.