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SIA Bonds Upsized to S$750 million Following Strong Investor Interest
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has completed its S$750 million 5-year bond offering at 3.03%, with a placement tranche of S$300 million and a tranche placed to retail investors of S$450 million. The 5-year bonds had been upsized from S$500 million following strong demand...
Masala Bonds – Everything You Need to Know
What are masala bonds? Masala bonds are Indian Rupees (INR) denominated debt instruments that are issued outside of India. Since these bonds are issued outside of India, they are settled in US dollars (USD). The unique feature of masala bonds is that Rupee currency...
Fed Signals Rate Hike Pause as Inflation Stays Muted and Global Risks Weigh on Economic Outlook
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced at a press conference on 20 March that the U.S. central bank is putting interest rates on hold for “some time” as inflation remains muted and global risks, including the trade disputes with China and possible spillovers...
Italy’s Baa3 Ratings Held Steady by Moody’s, Prompting Relief Rally in Bonds
Moody’s decision not to downgrade Italy’s international sovereign ratings from Baa3, despite ongoing data to show otherwise, sparked a strong rally in Italian debt and was supportive for the rest of the euro zone bond markets. Italy’s 10-year government bond...
ECB Unveils Cheap Loans, Leading to Euro Area Bond Rally
The European Central Bank launched a new round of cheap loans to support troubled banks and postponed interest rate hikes to at least the end of 2019, months later than previously indicated, in efforts to spark growth in the eurozone. As a result, German bonds soared...
Asian Dollar Bond Market Seeing Tremendous Interest for the First Time in Years
Bond orders for primary issuance of Asian dollar bonds hit a record 6.7 times of their issuance sizes in February, the highest since January 2016. This statistic is in line with the record demand for bond sales in Asia ex-Japan of $64.5 billion since the start of...
Strong Market Conditions Lead to Continued Bond Rally
The upbeat sentiment continued for the Asian bond market, extending uncrystalized gains to US$ 48.82 billion in the new year (for US dollar denominated bonds in the BEV universe). Themes that we had seen in January continued on into February, with investors happy to...
Spanish Bonds Favoured By Japanese Investor Ahead of Elections
Mitsubishi UFG Kokusai Asset Management Co., whose assets are the equivalent of $121 billion, is buying bonds from Spain despite looming political uncertainty due to the upcoming elections, the country's third in 4 years. The investor's executive chief fund manager...
Minutes from Fed Show Uncertainty Over 2019 Rate Hikes
In the minutes to their January 29-30th meeting, Federal Reserve officials showed uncertainty towards the direction of interest rates in 2019 while widely favouring the end of the reduction in the central bank's balance sheet. Launched as an emergency measure to...
