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Analysts discuss the scope of tightening in Bund swap spreads and the impact on SSA spreads
OATs and OLOs could weaken further versus Bunds while southern European countries and EU continue to paint a positive picture
Uncertainty looms large as presidential race far from clear and budget negotiations potentially ‘highly challenging’
Summer in full swing but first two weeks of August not completely off the cards for non-euro deals
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The Republic of Turkey priced its ¥100bn ($933m) 10 year Samurai at 29bp over yen swaps offer on Wednesday. The bond is guaranteed by Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) which enabled the country to make a substantial saving on where a new dollar or euro bond would have come. -
Sovereign, supranational and agency issuers with funding left to do should be able to take advantage of storming conditions in dollars in the coming weeks, once a series of events that could bring volatility late this week has passed. But bankers will be hard pressed to find issuers with benchmark funding needs.
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The leaders of the UK’s three main political parties have signed a pledge guaranteeing extra powers for the Scottish parliament if the country votes against independence at a referendum on Thursday. But that leaves people in England facing the prospect of even more decisions being taken by politicians that do not represent them. The Westminster elite should provide the English with some guarantees of their own.
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Luxembourg is kicking off investor meetings for the first euro denominated sukuk next week. Luxembourg is looking to become the leading Islamic financing hub in Europe.
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Spain's borrowing costs rose at a short end auction on Tuesday, after an increase in its yields last week that analysts partly blamed on fears that rising support for Scottish independence could galvanise Catalonian separatists in Spain. While Spain outperformed its periphery peers on Monday morning, it wasn't enough to retrace the losses made last week, denting its month on month performance at the bill auction on Tuesday.
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