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Four borrowers piled into the dollar bond market on Thursday, adding to one of the busiest weeks of the year despite tough market conditions. UK telecoms company BT led the charge with a $1.35bn two-part deal.

It was never going to last. Bitcoin has ended its three month holiday from volatility and begun to crash once more. The cryptocurrency market is looking for a new floor.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi opened bookbuilding for a $500m convertible bond on Wednesday after US markets closed.

The US cities of Atlanta and Baltimore are preparing to issue innovative impact bonds to finance construction of new green infrastructure, such as parks, to soak up floodwater. The deals will pay investors extra if the infrastructure performs better than expected.

US medical technology company Stryker had to wait longer than it planned for its debut in the European corporate bond market, but when the chance to launch the deal came on Tuesday, it achieved the hat-trick it was aiming for with an extra tranche added for good measure.

Some equity investors are hoping for a surprise gift before year-end if Donald Trump strikes a deal with Chinese president Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires to end trade hostility between the two nations, but they're clutching at straws.

In this round-up, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) signs a currency swap with Indonesia, Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges publish rules to limit the length of trading halts, and the Chinese authorities publish new rules to boost the domestic free trade zones (FTZs).

Another bruising week for equities is testing frayed nerves in equity capital markets, with this week’s US tech-stock sell-off adding to worries about issuance in 2019, writes Sam Kerr.

Investors have become more cautious about a popular derivatives volatility trade amid concerns of increased US equity turbulence in the weeks and months to come.

Takeda Pharmaceutical, the Japanese firm buying UK rival Shire, defied tough market conditions to press ahead with a $5.5bn trade to help fund its $62.5bn acquisition ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Bankers in the corporate bond market still have a number of deals on their pads to try to execute ahead of the end of 2018. None was successful this week, but that hasn’t dented their ambition.

TrueEX, the New York-based electronic trading platform provider, will carry on its legal fight against 11 dealers after a US district court ruled against the banks' motion to dismiss the suit.