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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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Portugal insisted this week that it still had access to international capital markets, with the country’s top debt management executive claiming that it was business as usual for its MTN programme.
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Ville de Paris priced a Eu140m 15 year deal on Thursday during one of the hardest periods for trade in the market. The bond will likely be one of the last for 2010, dealers said.
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Issuance plans for the debut bond by FADE (Fondo de Amortización del Déficit Eléctrico), the entity formed to fund repayment of the tariff deficit to Spanish utilities, remain on hold in the face of extreme volatility in peripheral government markets.
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The only syndication to be conducted by the United Kingdom’s DMO in the first quarter of 2011 will be a long dated linker.
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Hopes that the European Central Bank would embark on a grand quantitative easing programme of the magnitude undertaken by the US were dashed at Thursday’s ECB meeting when president Trichet fell short of announcing the ‘shock and awe’ buy-back some market participants had wished for.
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The International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (IFFIm) issued its inaugural Kangaroo benchmark on Tuesday.