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Switch auctions to make comeback as DMO chief discusses record breaking deal and 2026-27 funding
◆ Sovereign breaks BTP orderbook record again ◆ Demand was huge, but not because price was cheap ◆ Curve stability despite addition of jumbo 10 year
◆ Biggest and most popular green OAT ever ◆ Third and final syndication came earlier than in previous years ◆ Leading position in green bonds and EGB market affirmed
◆ First of seven syndications breaks multiple records ◆ Investor engagement and communications helped stable execution ◆ Smaller programme this year but ‘still a lot’ to tackle
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  • Fitch’s downgrade of Tunisia’s credit rating was based on out-of-date information and negatively impacted the sovereign’s recent Eurobond trade, Lamia Zribi, Tunisia’s finance minister told GlobalCapital.
  • A trio of eurozone government borrowers are rumoured to be mulling deals in the coming weeks, with conditions at the long end in euros looking stronger than earlier in the year.
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    Turkey has made an opportunistic move to reopen its recent 10 year bond with a tap to raise an expected $1bn.
  • Emboldened Congressional Republicans ramped up attacks against the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday, taking aim at the central bank’s role in negotiating international financial rules and its bond purchase programmes. But chair Janet Yellen was defiant, and said the Fed would remain a part of the Basel negotiations.
  • Even heavy indications from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen the central bank will raise interest rates at its next meeting were not enough to derail the strong primary market in emerging market bonds.
  • Tunisia returned to euros for the first time since 2005 on Friday but the €800m deal was by no means a blow out and the leads were unable to move pricing as the borrower made a play for new investors.