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Primary market for public sector unlikely to see large transactions until after Easter, reckon bankers
Market participants pray for no negative news overnight in hope of ‘pre-Easter wave of issuance’
Two day executions expose dollar issuers to market volatility
◆ Deal came after recent Ontario 10 year ◆ Ontario underperformed but still a key comp ◆ Some price sensitivity? No bother
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Talks are set to begin in Spain to reform the financing mechanism for the country’s regions, which could lead some to their return to the primary bond market for the first time in years. But as with seemingly everything in bonds this year, politics could yet scupper the efforts, write Craig McGlashan and Victor Jimenez. -
A funding official for a southern European sub-sovereign borrower has warned that a victory for an anti-European Union candidate in the upcoming French presidential election could “bring misery to southern Europe as never seen after the Second World War”.
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Political power plays in Turkey and the UK have done little to derail EM bond markets this week, but the pipeline is thinner than before Easter, and limited to Russian borrowers.
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Swiss Prime Site, LGT Bank and the City of Zurich took advantage of a quiet market, placing Swiss franc bonds with domestic investors before Easter holidays.
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Order books were open for all of 10 minutes as the City of Zurich benefited from a scarcity of municipal activity to find Sfr100m ($99.5m) in a 20 year no-grow deal.
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