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New EU deal and year's final sovereign syndications move into focus amid continued yield sell-offs
‘Very important transaction’ for the DMO in meeting investor needs where they are, says debt chief
Month-end buying from investors in secondary market to determine backdrop for next wave of issuance
‘Pragmatic’ approach from borrowers set to benefit upcoming wall of issuance
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France and Germany have come together to support a €500bn EU recovery fund to be financed through European Commission debt issuance. Observers believe that the decision was likely encouraged by the German Federal Constitutional Court’s (BVG) recent verdict on the ECB’s quantitative easing programme. -
Belgium is set to issue its first dollar bond since 2017 as euro funders continue to take advantage of the attractive funding conditions in the currency, with three other public sector borrowers also in the market for dollars.
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The Kingdom of Norway is set to sell its first ever syndicated tap. The sovereign hit screens on Monday with initial price thoughts for the reopening of a 10 year Norwegian krone bond.
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JP Morgan, the leading SSA bookrunner over the last five years, is clinging onto pole position for 2020, despite a mighty effort from Citi, which has topped the rankings since the Covid-19 pandemic began disrupting markets in earnest. But it is a far different picture in SSA MTNs with Scandinavians surging to the top, thanks to a growth in niche currency supply.
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France has outlined plans to issue a new 20 year syndicated bond, confirming market speculation that the sovereign was looking to join its eurozone sovereign peers in tapping the capital markets to finance its revised funding programme for 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The pain that negative rates in dollars could cause money market funds hangs like an albatross around the US Federal Reserve’s neck. Talk of them has picked up over the last week as US Federal Funds Futures prices started to imply they were on their way, while president Donald Trump pushed the topic on Twitter, even though and Fed chair Jerome Powell appeared to rule them out.
