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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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Bahrain looks set to offer more generous terms to access conventional funding this week than it did when tapping the Islamic market back in November.
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The European Union mandated five banks for a long 15 year benchmark on Monday afternoon, while The Republic of Austria also announced a new syndicated euro benchmark. KfW is among the few other issuers said to be looking at the market this week, ahead of an EU summit beginning on Thursday. Austrian-guaranteed Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OKB) also announced a three year dollar trade. -
The EFSF was able to ride a marked improvement in sentiment mid-week to venture out with a bond.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) jumped into the Swiss franc market on Thursday with a Sfr110m 1.5% 12 year as a swift response to the same strong institutional demand for top rated but yielding paper that had driven ABN Amro Bank’s covered bond the previous day (see Financial Institutions section).
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Spain may have survived three Bonos auctions on Thursday morning but government bonds traders maintain that it is more likely a question of when rather than if the country requests a full-scale EU bail-out as the queue of end investors looking to invest in the country dwindles.
