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Market participants pray for no negative news overnight in hope of ‘pre-Easter wave of issuance’
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  • Kommuninvest and the Kingdom of Sweden both took to the market this week, pulling off successful trades in a buoyant market.
  • An obscure sovereign debt instrument could play a role in ensuring that countries facing a debt crisis in the aftermath of Covid-19 can organise a swifter restructuring with creditors, according to the International Monetary Fund.
  • SSA
    The European Union faces its bitterest internal conflict yet, with member states drawing battle lines over the receipt of EU funds becoming dependent on states adhering to the rule of law. The conflict risks delaying or sinking the EU’s recovery fund, but capitulating would weaken its ability to oversee how the money is used, writes Lewis McLellan.
  • Italy made a strong return to the dollar market on Tuesday with a deal over three times covered, which came following the conclusion of the sovereign’s second BTP Futura bond sale at the end of last week.
  • The People’s Republic of China returned to the European market on Wednesday, part of its plan to make euro bond outings an annual exercise. The €4bn transaction was a blow-out, with the order book well oversubscribed — and one of the three tranches achieving the sovereign’s first negative yield. Morgan Davis reports.
  • SSA
    Dollars was the flavour of the day for public sector borrowers on Tuesday as three issuers headed to the currency, raising a combined $12bn. Two more SSAs will follow with dollar deals on Wednesday.