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Analysts discuss the scope of tightening in Bund swap spreads and the impact on SSA spreads
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Financial markets had a good laugh when the ECB press conference was interrupted by protester Josephine Witt dumping confetti on Mario Draghi. This turned to puzzlement when she released what appeared to be a poem, describing herself as a butterfly. But she has a point.
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The eurozone periphery took a battering this week, with growing worries over a Greek default blamed as a catalyst for an investor pushback against the effects of quantitative easing.
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The public sector bond market in euros is groping for direction in the aftermath of European Central Bank buying that has vaporised secondary levels. Issuers and bankers are assessing how secondary levels compare with where investors other than the ECB would buy in size.
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Investors mobilised this week, revolting against the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, forcing eurozone periphery sovereigns to fund themselves at yields that predate central bank buying for the first time since the ECB’s public sector purchase programme began last month. -
Spain highlighted on Thursday the retracement in yields since the launch of eurozone quantitative easing, as it paid to borrow at pre-QE prices.
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Malaysia has cemented its return to the dollar debt market with a $1.5bn wakala that had investors scrambling for more. The country’s novelty value blew away any concerns surrounding its fiscal health and it managed to raise funds in style, with the inclusion of a new class of intangible asset in the asset pool — a first for a sovereign.
