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◆ No book update for €500m no-grow deal ◆ Surprising lack of demand for defensive trade ◆ Investors continue to cherry pick in big week for supply
◆ Spread to Land Hessen key to pricing ◆ Leads thought long and hard on whether to tighten ◆ 1bp move the right amount as book grew
◆ Three German states brought a new Joint Länder bond ◆ No book update, KfW curve guides pricing ◆ Flemish Community prints new 15 year
Second digital project won’t be the issuer’s last, Länder peers may be ‘interested and willing’ to join in
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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.
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Read on to see how deals priced earlier in the year 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. -
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Small, super rare issuers could tap the private bond markets to fund projects in growing numbers this year, following the lead of Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix’s debut €10m 19 year note.
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It doesn’t matter whether Germany accepts the European Central Bank’s Outright Monetary Transactions scheme or not. Draghi's plan has done its job and if the ECB ever needs to invent a new capital markets bazooka to point at a troublesome debt crisis it can simply invent a new one.
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Germany could see a spate of deals issued by groups of cities after six banded together this week in a trade that captured investors’ imaginations. But not every banker covering the market sees the potential for the innovative deal to spawn imitators, arguing that the unwieldy structure is unlikely to appeal to any but the most dedicated accounts, writes Nathan Collins.
