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The Development Bank of Japan plans to sell bonds in the Hong Kong renminbi market and has discussed moving the proceeds of the deal to the mainland with Chinese authorities, Tomoki Matsuda, director general of DBJ’s treasury department, said this week.
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The worsening of the Irish sovereign funding situation, with speculation growing by the day that the government is on the point of seeking support from the European Union in spite of official denials, has thrown into question the credibility of all involved — not least the European Financial Stability Facility itself.
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The European Investment Bank and International Finance Corporation this week took advantage of strong demand for seven year dollar assets, sparked by low front-end yields in the dollar market, a steep Treasury curve and the announcement that quantitative easing in the US would be focused on medium maturity debt.
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With the savage sell-off in peripheral eurozone sovereigns nearing a point of no return after Germany’s demand that the burden of debt restructuring be shared, bankers are calling for Ireland — where the government could soon lose its majority and Eu50bn-Eu60bn of guaranteed bank debt must be rolled over — to activate the nuclear option of dumping its banks to save itself.