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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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Spain’s ability to service its ballooning and ever more costly debt burden on its own looked ever more doubtful on Thursday night, bankers and investors judged. Tessa Wilkie reports.
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A barnstorming week for supranational and agency borrowers defied dicey conditions in peripheral sovereign markets and looks to have set the precedent for weeks to come, say SSA bankers. Investors have displayed a renewed resilience when considering new bond issues that was absent last year in the face of comparable volatility, write Ralph Sinclair, Jo Richards and Tessa Wilkie.
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KfW tapped an array of niche markets this week including Canadian dollars, Russian roubles and Turkish lira, to take advantage of investors’ heightened bid for top rated assets in non-core, safe-haven currencies amid the recent escalation of the eurozone crisis.
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Bankers have dismissed Spain’s plan to restore its regions’ frozen access to capital markets by creating a collective ‘hispanobonos’ issuer.
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The Swiss franc market is poised to host a streak of non-deal roadshows next week from a wide array of borrowers, including emerging market issuers Industrial Bank of Korea and Turkey’s VakifBank.
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Finland sold a $1bn one year MTN on Thursday, as it shuts up shop on longer term MTNs and gears up for another euro benchmark later this year.
