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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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Egypt is preparing to follow Tunisia’s landmark return to the international bond market as investors shrug off conflict in Syria and the oil price’s collapse to regain appetite for Middle Eastern credits. Underscored by this week’s $1bn deal, confidence in the region has rebounded to levels last seen before the Arab Spring in 2011, writes Virginia Furness -
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After a benign start to the week for sovereign and agency borrowers in the eurozone periphery in the aftermath of the Greek general election — allowing several issuers to print paper at record breaking low yields — the fears of a political standoff between the new Hellenic government and its European peers led to a softer tone mid-week. But public sector bankers remain confident that Greece’s problems are, in the short term, its own.
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A strong reception to a 10 year Eurobond from Tunisia this week — its first conventional bond since the Arab Spring —is proof that the country is on the right path in terms of financial autonomy, according to bankers.
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Italy bust borrowing cost records at an auction on Thursday, but investors will be eyeing the progress of the country’s presidential election that started the same day. While a failure by the government to have its selected candidate elected would not trigger a general election — unlike Greece, where just such a development created a major political event in Europe — it would be viewed as a lack of support for prime minister Matteo Renzi, said analysts.
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Comments from Belarus’ president Alexander Lukashenko that the country may hold debt restructuring talks this year, sent Belarus’ 2015 Eurobond crashing 26 cash points. However the Ministry of Economy later clarified that Belarus fully intends to service its debt and that the president had accidently said restructuring when he meant to say refinancing.
