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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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Sovereign, supranational and agency issuers are enjoying close to ideal issuance conditions — but wobbles in peripheral sovereign bond trading this week suggest that all may not be well for long.
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Sweden was able to raise $1.5bn of three year paper on Wednesday at a very tight spread to the interpolated US Treasury curve and Japan Bank for International Cooperation drew over $5bn of demand for a dual tranche deal.
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Growing support for fringe parties on the left and right of the political spectrum in this week’s European Parliament elections should be cause for concern for all mainstream politicians. But while investor nervousness over the polling is the most plausible explanation for a sell-off in the eurozone periphery over the past few trading days, it is still too early to call an end to the spectacular rally in periphery sovereign debt this year. -
China's Ministry of Finance (MoF) will hold its seventh auction of offshore renminbi government bonds on Wednesday, May 21, selling Rmb16bn ($2.6bn), including a Rmb2bn tranche reserved for central banks. Analysts expect yields on all tranches to show a distinct steepening from previous auctions, with the exception of the shortest dated tranche, a three year.
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Kingdom of Sweden began sounding investors on Tuesday afternoon for a three year dollar mandate that could have the tightest spread to swaps of the year so far. Elsewhere, Japan Bank for International Cooperation hired banks for a dual tranche issue tapping five and 10 year demand.
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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.
