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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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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European supranationals and agencies have made in their annual funding programme as the first quarter draws to a close.
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New technologies are marching into the securities issuance process. This week came bids to shake up two very different kinds of private debt — traditional corporate Schuldscheine and funky structured notes. -
Investors have begun to push back against ever tighter levels in the public sector dollar market, with a deeply sub-Libor trade this week failing to find full subscription. But there was not much concern ahead of next week’s Easter holidays, with some strong funding already raised in the first quarter and the new Federal Reserve chair’s first Federal Open Market Committee meeting passing this week without any great surprises.
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The euro market was all but deserted this week, but one borrower broke the silence, hitting screens for a socially responsible investment bond on Tuesday.
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A sharp move wider in short end swap spreads has allowed public sector borrowers to offer substantial pick-ups to US Treasuries at deeply sub-Libor levels, but investors are beginning to rebel.
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The Nordic Investment Bank became the second borrower this week to access the two year part of the curve, taking advantage of a widening in swap spreads.
