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Bankers say the ambition to price the first SSA bond through US Treasuries has faded as recent five year deals stall and barely perform in secondary
Books on the dollar deal opened just hours after Iran attacked the country
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Investors on Thursday pounced on Ireland's recovery story to lap up €3bn worth of 10 year bonds from the Celtic Tiger.
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Hungary will meet investors in Hong Kong and Singapore as it prepares to issue the first ever sovereign dim sum bond from the CEEMEA region. -
Three months after South Korea became fully double-A rated for the first time, the sovereign received another boost when Moody’s hiked its rating by one notch to Aa2 in December.
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As a new year begins, global capital markets find themselves having to adjust to a new reality: the two most important central banks are on opposite paths. Yet both of them face the same uncertain picture: a slow-moving global economy, slumping commodity prices, continued fears over Chinese growth and yet more bank reform. As a result, 2016 will be another tough year. Toby Fildes picks out 16 themes that will challenge and reward global capital markets in the coming 12 months. Additional reporting by Jon Hay.
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Worries about bond market liquidity went from specialist interest to global best-seller in 2015. The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve published extensively on liquidity problems in bonds; European politicians lost their appetite for regulation, fearful about doing further damage to the frail but crucial animal spirits of the bond markets. But the last year saw precious little done to solve the problem. Owen Sanderson asks whether 2016 will be better.
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The fleeting occasions in 2015 where public sector borrowers brought similar deals on the same day and created a jam in the market could become a more common occurrence in 2016, as issuers forego the 2015 strategy of spreading fundraising throughout the year and issuance windows narrow. Craig McGlashan reports.
