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Estonian sovereign outing its first under local law
◆ Sovereign serves up first 30 year SSA deal in two months ◆ Cost-sensitive issuer opts for limited size ◆ Very small NIP, even by German standards
An public sector issuer breaking a record with a deal this week became so common a claim it began to sound like, well, a broken record. But questions remain about how robust demand really is
Markets ‘not out of the woods yet’ as large sovereigns shorten execution process to de-risk issuance
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Ukraine's ministry of finance has announced plans to raise $5bn in the international markets according to its recently published debt management plan. -
The UK Debt Management Office has mandated banks for the sale of a Gilt set for the week beginning February 22.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.
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Currency and tenor have been left open in the RFP for Russia’s first sovereign bond since 2013. Recommendations to print in dollars are expected to dominate and some have said that a renminbi tranche is a possibility. But the RFP has aroused suspicion that it could be a ruse to raise funding for sanctioned entities.
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Portugal is all but locked out of the capital markets after its yields shot up this week to reach their highest levels since the country exited its bail-out programme in May 2014. Ben Jaglom reports.
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European credit markets, led by the banking sector, have seen risk escalate over the past several weeks with the Markit iTraxx Europe Main index seeing its spread widen to the highs of June 2013. One bright spot however, has been the region’s sovereign credit, which has largely steered clear of the contagion that developed in the corporate market.
