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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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Development Bank of the Philippines hopes to become the latest borrower in the global peso bond market, after picking banks to manage a deal.
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The Province of Ontario issued a $1.25bn global seven year bond on Wednesday, taking advantage of the week’s spike in US Treasury yields.
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The Dutch State Treasury Agency is gearing up to issue its inaugural dollar deal in the new year. Other borrowers are also expected to tap the dollar market as their first option, not wishing to compete with the expected euro supply from the EU and the European Financial Stability Facility and in order to take advantage of a favourable basis swap.
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The European sovereign funding landscape was in disarray again this week as politicians and officials were quick to shoot down suggestions from two senior ministers for a common eurozone sovereign bond. Agreement on the concept looked as unlikely as ever, in spite of Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker and Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti making the most serious proposal seen so far.
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Despite having to fight for investor attention with several of its 16 sovereign members, next month’s debut European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) issue will soothe troubled euro bond markets and is a likely deal of the year, prospective underwriters claim.