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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 smart money is on record low funding costs at a pair of auctions in the eurozone periphery on Thursday, as the region’s sovereign yields fall further on a seemingly unstoppable move downwards.
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The attention being paid by UK politicians to Moody’s comments on how Scottish independence would affect both the newly independent country and the leftovers of the UK is at best laughable and at worst a sign of the poorest of politicking.
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This week's scorecard covers the funding progress of sovereign issuers, with Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and Portugal all over the halfway mark on their programmes for the year. Next week's scorecard will deal with European supranationals and agencies.
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Read on to see how selected benchmarks are faring in secondary. Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data. -
Cyprus’s re-emergence into the capital markets this week with a private placement has some public sector bankers pushing for a syndication — a deal which would mark the quickest comeback to issuance from a bailed-out eurozone sovereign. But the escalating tensions over the Ukraine crisis between Russia and the West could dampen the country’s prospects.
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Ever-shrinking yields on offer from sovereigns, supranationals and agencies could spell the end of the bulging books that were common during the first quarter of 2014, bankers warned this week.
