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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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There has been enough jockeying for position between Greece’s newly elected government and its international creditors. It’s time to sit down with an agreement that works — and that means concessions on both sides.
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Investor demand in the 15 to 20 year part of the euro curve could lead eurozone sovereigns to bring deals in those tenors before the end of the week, SSA bankers said on Tuesday, after Belgium raised €4bn of 15 year cash. Unédic opted for a shorter dated deal on the same day, but was still able to print its largest bond in over five years. -
A spate of downgrades in the Middle East by Standard & Poor’s has been shrugged off by the market with bankers blaming the small sell-off in Kingdom of Bahrain’s bonds on underlying rate movements. They added that investors were more focused on the positive movement in oil prices than the much anticipated downgrade.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently introduced rules preventing foreign investors from buying short dated debt, which the central bank hopes will encourage long term investment in Indian securities. With memories of large foreign outflows still fresh in the minds of Indians, the rule changes are a wise move towards preventing possible hot money from hurting its markets in the long run.
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Supply of euro benchmark bonds from public sector issuers built up much more quickly on Monday than at the start of February, with three deals announced and set to come on Tuesday — as many as during the whole of last week. But the trades follow a theme familiar from a week ago: all are set to come at the long end of the curve.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at how far European sovereigns have moved through their funding programmes this year.
