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Guillaume Pichard, assistant deputy minister, on the five year call, the repo boost and the cost versus home
◆ State’s pre-summer deal attracts €2bn book ◆ Maybe only one more deal to come on reduced needs ◆ 2bp NIP to start as issuer tries to ‘be fair to the market’
◆ Canadian province tests post-Starmer sterling ◆ Five year choice keeps the buyers ◆ New issue concession estimated
Nine banks chosen to run £1.5bn borrowing programme
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The dollar market has enjoyed yet another strong week, with one issuer breaking its size record and another pair matching their own. SSA bankers are readying themselves for a busy May in the currency. But despite issuers keen to push out the curve, it looks like 10 year benchmarks are off the table. -
The Province of Manitoba rounded off a week of record breaking deals with a dollar trade that matched its largest ever benchmark in the currency and helped it diversify away from its North American investor base.
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Elation in the euro markets after the first round of the French presidential election at the weekend continues to wash over the public sector bond markets, with the Province of Quebec selling its largest ever benchmark in the currency and Spain printing €5bn of inflation-linked paper.
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The European Financial Stability Facility on Tuesday priced a dual tranche deal that bankers are describing as possibly its greatest ever, laying to rest some of its other long dated trades this year that drew criticism. A pair of other issuers have also hit screens in a euro market enjoying what one syndicate head called “probably the best conditions we’ve seen in months”.
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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.
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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”.
