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Sovereign keeps funding guidance unchanged for 2026 but warns against 'adverse effects on growth'
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New Zealand attracted record demand for its largest ever bond as it tapped the market with a four year syndication on Tuesday. With the government facing an elevated funding programme in 2020-21 to combat the effect of the coronavirus pandemic, there is a feeling that record-breaking deal sizes will become more common a spectacle.
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China will start selling the first batch of its Covid-19-themed ‘special treasury bonds’ this week. While it will only raise Rmb100bn ($14.1bn) initially, the overall target of Rmb1tr has raised some concerns around short-term liquidity in the market.
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Just as it did in and after 2008-2009, the financing burden of responding to 2020’s crisis has fallen squarely on the shoulders of governments. But there are essential differences between the crises, not least the speed and scale with which sovereign issuers have had to jump into the bond markets. In the UK, within six weeks, a full year’s public borrowing requirement of £156bn had multiplied into a four months’ requirement of £225bn. To put that into context, the UK Gilt market’s previous busiest year was 2009-2010, during which it raised £227.6bn.
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Dr Jörg Kukies, State Secretary for Financial Market Policy and European Policy at the German Federal Ministry of Finance, speaks to GlobalCapital’s Managing Editor, Toby Fildes, on Covid-19, European policy and Germany’s financial markets.
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A very warm welcome to the Global Borrowers & Investors Forum 2020. This year we’re bringing the conference to you in this special publication — printed, and digitally on our website.
