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UK real estate investment trust Segro has sold €300m 10 and 15 year US private placement (PP) notes, to a group of institutional investors.

US financial firms, including Prudential Financial and Wells Fargo, raised plenty of funds and capital in the first half of the week. One of them, Discover Bank, could encourage other banks to use a callable structure when issuing tier two.

Public sector borrowers could beat the summer slumber if they bring dollar deals, said SSA bankers — and they may be rewarded for doing so, with conditions unlikely to be able to get better than this week’s.

US companies stayed away from issuing bonds this week, amid continuing volatility and concerns about second quarter earnings after Facebook offered "bombshell guidance".

Wall Street heavyweights returned in force to the dollar market with a string of multi-billion dollar trades after posting strong second quarter earnings.

One of Wells Fargo’s senior loans team has left the bank.

Jonathan Bock, who previously held the role of managing director and senior equity analyst at Wells Fargo, will become a managing director on Barings’ global private finance platform.

Carmakers took advantage of a light calendar and an improving backdrop to reopen the dollar bond market after a week-long supply drought.

The US dollar bond market ended a record-breaking month on a downbeat note as borrowers stayed on the sidelines amid a poor technical backdrop. Charter Communications became the first SEC registered issuer of the week on Thursday with a long five year trade and the only two other benchmark trades were from 144A issuers on Tuesday.

US firm Comcast has doubled down on its jumbo acquisition plans by offering to buy 21st Century Fox in an all cash $65bn deal that the cable company says it will run concurrently with its bid against the purchase target for UK media company Sky.

Bank of China’s Luxembourg branch has signed a $1.05bn syndicated loan after launching the deal at half that amount in the latest display of lenders scrambling to allocate funds.

Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum has slashed 90bp off the margin of its $5bn reserves-based lending facility, as borrowers continue to heap pressure on lenders over pricing.