UniCredit
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Shares in UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank by assets, closed 8.1% higher on Thursday after the bank cut its stake in Turkey’s Yapi Kredi, while announcing a dividend increase and a share buy-back. -
Cepsa, the Spanish oil company, and Tyco Electronics, the US sensor technology company whose parent TE Connectivity is headquartered in Switzerland, hit screens with single tranche bond issues on Thursday, giving investors a break from the rash of jumbo deals in euros earlier this week.
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Cassa Depositi e Prestiti will come to market on Tuesday with a 10 year euro benchmark financing social housing projects in Italy.
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Few MTN issuers have so far issued in the Libor-replacing euro short term rate (€STR) format, with deals limited so far to supranationals, agencies and, this week, a sub-sovereign. Some bankers blame the 2017 EU Prospectus Directive for tightening up the rules on adding new indices to programmes, leaving non-exempt issuers on the sidelines.
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Austria's new benchmark was over 10 times covered on Wednedsay, making the sovereign the latest in a string of its peers to receive a record order book for a syndicated bond this year.
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Telefonica, the Spanish telecommunications company, issued senior and hybrid bonds in euros on Monday. While it picked a horrendous day for markets for its offer, Telefonica still managed to pay small or negative price concessions relative to its secondary curve.
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Romanian telecoms giant Digi issued an €800m bond this week, offering investors exposure to risky but fast-growing eastern European economies. Digi is joining the long list of companies taking advantage of exceptionally favourable refinancing conditions in European high yield.
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A pair of investment grade issuers made rare appearances in niche currency bond markets this week. Deutsche Telekom returned to the Swiss franc market after a 10 year absence, while Hitachi Capital UK made its debut in rand.
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Romania sold €1.4bn 2% 2032s and €1.6bn 3.375% 2050s on Tuesday, managing to get away half of the country’s €6bn funding target for 2020 in one swoop.
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Novolipetsk Steel, one of Russia’s largest steel producers, has amended an existing loan to include sustainability-linked pricing. The deal is the latest in a string of green financings in the country.
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FCA Bank launched a €750m two year bond on Tuesday that was increased to €850m and three times subscribed, as syndicate desks prepared for a lacklustre few weeks in the corporate primary market.
