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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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KfW revisited the Kangaroo market this week with the development bank’s first issue since September 2 — a A$250m tap of its 6.25% 2021s. With sporadic deals only from top-rated sovereign, supranational and agency borrowers in the second half of 2011, Australian dollar market activity is set to remain limited until the end of the year.
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The Republic of the Philippines has bought back more than $1.3bn of its outstanding bonds, after closing a tender offer covering 16 deals at the end of last week. The sovereign is still mulling when to launch a $2bn international bond package but it is unlikely to happen before the end of the month.
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The European Financial stability Facility (EFSF) — the great white hope of the eurozone, but whose future will be shrouded in mystery until at least next Wednesday — will decide on Monday whether to step back into markets in turmoil to print a long-dated trade.
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Arguably the least appreciated dollar deal of the week was the $3bn three year global from the European Investment Bank with market participants saying it was the wrong maturity for such a low yield environment.
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