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Belgium and two European agencies also mandated, even as the US and Iran failed to reach a peace deal
‘Whole curve open’ for SSA issuers but seven year point stands out as ‘interesting’ spot amid euro curve shape shift
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
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Canada’s reputation as a top notch sovereign issuer may have taken a hit thanks to plunging commodity prices — with the problem particularly acute for oil producing provinces such as Alberta, which face rapidly rising borrowing needs. And the commodity concern comes as worries over a Canadian housing bubble linger on. But with its total net debt-to-GDP among the lowest of G7 countries and some of its smallest provinces able to bring strong bond deals to the international markets, the Canadian story is still a strong one. -
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Republic of Poland’s €1.75bn dual tranche market reopener underperformed on the break on Tuesday. The deal drew criticism for printing too tight and too wide, based on which comparable was used, but the Polish Ministry of Finance called the note a success.
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Two deals from Poland and Slovakia this week showed how emerging market borrowers and their bankers need to come up with new ways to price CEE bonds, and fast. With European quantitative easing distorting secondary prices to the point of uselessness, deals should now factor in a ‘liquidity premium’, writes Virginia Furness.
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The Iberian Peninsula was host to a duo of barnstorming sovereign benchmarks this week, but there was no consensus among bankers over whether they signified an appetite for sovereigns at the lower end of the European credit quality spectrum.
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