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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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As the Greek crisis leaves eurozone leaders with dangerously protruding forehead veins and journalists frantically updating stories every two minutes, a former headline grabber has quietly been working its way back up the credit ladder. -
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale on Thursday smashed down the barriers that had kept it out of the dollar market since last June — and did so in some style. The French agency claimed its biggest issue size in the currency and only paid a 10bp new issue premium to do so, it said, all in a week when Moody’s placed its sovereign guarantor on negative outlook.
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Finland brought its own twist on what makes for a blowout deal in the rampant sterling market this week as it printed a £500m floating rate note despite lead managers believing that a deal of twice that size was possible. That trade followed a total of £500m printed earlier in the week between Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), Export Development Canada (EDC), and SEK.
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