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Eurozone periphery issuers showed themselves to be resilient when tackling choppy markets, as borrowers printed a series of strong deals despite yields pogoing over the course of the week. -
The UK is likely to syndicate a new 30 year conventional bond in June, after finding overwhelming support for the tenor from investors and banks this week. An inflation linker of similar tenor could follow in the second quarter of its financial year, after the idea drew similar interest.
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China's Ministry of Finance (MoF) brought its seventh auction of offshore renminbi bonds on Wednesday, selling Rmb16bn ($2.6bn) in what was the first of two sales scheduled for this year. More than half the Rmb41.8bn demand was targeted at the three year tranche, continuing the short-end dominance of previous auctions. Fears of global rate rises make that unsurprising, but it was the central bank tranche that gave the most striking example of how strongly those concerns are driving markets.
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The winners of this year's GlobalCapital Bond Awards are out — find out which were the top performing issuers and banks over the past year.
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Cassa Depositi e Prestiti built a more than doubly oversubscribed book with a new May 2021 line on Thursday, despite turbulence in the Italian government bond market. Meanwhile Spain — which has also suffered volatility in secondary trading over the past few days — was able to cut its funding costs at an auction.
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The short end of the curve again dominated Wednesday's Rmb16bn auction of offshore renminbi bonds from China's Ministry of Finance (MoF), with more than half the total Rmb41.8bn demand coming into the three year tranche. That much was expected, given global fears of rising interest rates, but it was the central bank allocation that gave an intriguing insight into just how strongly those concerns are driving markets.
