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Performance compared to peers and quality of demand 'really impressive'
◆ Spread set at starting level ◆ Floor in sight for agencies ◆ 'Success for Kommuninvest'
◆ Supra prices inside peers’ seven year deals ◆ Slim NIP paid after 3bp tightening ◆ ‘Very strong day’ for SSA market
◆ Sharp landing through a noisy open ◆ Grinding towards US Treasuries ◆ Bankers praise execution but warn of residuals building
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The European Investment Bank has hit screens for the first sterling floating rate benchmark designed for a post-Libor world. -
This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress French agencies have made in their funding programmes as the first half of the year draws to a close.
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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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The week began with that rarest of things in recent times, a welcoming political backdrop. It was marred, however, by monetary policy meetings from the two most important central banks in the world. While the US Federal Reserve’s second rate hike of the year was a foregone conclusion, it caused the dollar curve to flatten still further, making the euro market even more fertile funding territory than it has been for SSAs. But even so, euros had its own struggles this week, facing what one head of SSA syndicate called “one of the most important and unpredictable European Central Bank meetings for a long time”. Lewis McLellan reports.
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The North American Development Bank (NADB) will hold meetings in Geneva and Zurich to discuss a debut Swiss franc green bond, as the possibilities for arbitrage grows for international SSAs.
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SSA borrowers have long been used to having it their way amid the exceptional monetary easing meted out by central banks since the global financial crisis. But this week could be the moment things started swinging back in favour of investors.
