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DTE Electric Co has become the newest member in the slowly growing club of investment grade US electric utility companies that have issued bonds explicitly marketed or certified as “green”.
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Canadian banks will be able to issue debt to meet their total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements from September, with issuers focused on the costs of what they expect will be an otherwise straightforward process of rolling over their maturing debt. -
A decent start to the week gave way to caution as escalating geopolitical concerns slammed the brakes on US high-grade dollar supply.
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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 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.
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The Nordic Investment Bank has announced that it will become the second borrower of the week to access the two year dollar market. The first, Kommunalbanken, scooped up $1.25bn on Tuesday.
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Kommunalbanken announced a two year dollar benchmark on Monday, coming on the heels of a strong week for dollar issuance.
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Funding for leveraged buyouts in the European primary high yield market gained further share of overall issuance this week, as specialty car parts maker LKQ of Chicago sold a €1bn bond for its acquisition of German peer Stahlgruber.
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The day after a jumbo corporate bond issue is often a quiet one for new issuance as investors digest their allocations and assess the impact on secondary spreads. But after Sanofi's €8bn offering on Wednesday, Thursday was another bumper day.
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The African Development Bank was awash with superlatives from SSA bankers watching on jealously as it printed a $2bn March 2021 global through mid-swaps on Wednesday. The supranational — like other SSAs in dollars this week — benefited from widening swap spreads that some analysts believe have further to go.
