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Canada is set to price its first dollar benchmark since 2012 on Thursday afternoon, a heavily oversubscribed five year deal.
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Political developments helped shape the near and long term picture in the European sovereign debt markets this week, as a change at the top of the Italian government pushed the country’s secondary yields down near record lows — providing superb conditions for when the Italian treasury decides to come with a first syndication of the year. Meanwhile, the UK granted the devolved Scottish government bond issuing powers from the 2015-2016 financial year.
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The SSA bond market could have a new issuer to look forward to after the UK government on Wednesday handed the devolved government in Scotland the power to issue its own bonds.
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Canada is set to sell its first dollar benchmark in over two years on Thursday, having mandated banks for a new five year global trade.
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Spain set out its stall for a sale of medium to long term debt later in the week in the best possible fashion on Tuesday, printing short term bills at historical lows.
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Borrowers in the eurozone’s periphery can do no wrong at the moment and nor can any wrong be done to them, it seems. Madrid has smashed its longest tenor record with a private placement, which came amid a series of strong data and rating actions for the eurozone periphery. The Spanish and Portuguese sovereigns are set to benefit from the optimistic conditions when they auction debt later in the week.