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German bond house adds to growing roster of primary dealerships
◆ AFT's Antoine Deruennes says 'clear message' showed demand for 30 year ◆ Speedy execution before US employment data ◆ Green OAT syndication next
◆15 year a ‘good entry point to the long-end’, says sovereign ◆ Fear of missing out from both old and new investors ◆ Why Italy ran no co-lead pot this time
The sovereign had to move fast to beat the release of US economic data
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  • There is no question that Portugal is one of the success stories to come out of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Its 10 year yield, for instance, has recovered from above 16% at the peak of the crisis in 2012 to around 2% today. Amid the current pressures in the eurozone, precipitated by Italy's budget fiasco, Portugal has remained resilient. But rightly or wrongly, an escalation of matters there, or indeed elsewhere in the eurozone periphery, would bring extra pressure to bear.
  • SSA
    Wednesday will be debut day in the green bond market, with Ireland preparing a 12 year inaugural euro benchmark and Société du Grand Paris (SGP) out with a 10 year that will also be its first bond issue of any kind. Both must contend with a market backdrop rife with Italian politics-driven turbulence, although SGP’s deal has so far had what one lead called “one of the strongest starts I’ve seen for a French issuer”.
  • The UK Debt Management Office won big demand for a reopeing of its longest outstanding bond on Tuesday, with a final order book that was over five times covered.
  • MUFG has put in place a new management structure, which sees a number of its businesses run globally but from outside Japan. The bank has also crowned several regional and deputy regional heads.
  • The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s outstanding dollar bonds received a boost on Tuesday after the country turned to the IMF for assistance. Addison Gong reports.
  • A fresh Italian government bond market sell-off on Monday is unlikely to impact issuance from public sector borrowers during the rest of the week, according to SSA bankers.