Tag: bonds

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China's underdeveloped bond market hinders fiscal stimulus

A more vibrant corporate bond market would also improve financing conditions for SMEs and provide companies with an alternative financing channel when the banking system is ...

By Standard & Poor's | 26 March 2009

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Nine Dragons' buyback attracts little extra interest

The company achieves a 58% acceptance rate for its bond buyback tender which closed on Monday – only marginally more than the 57% tendered by the early deadline.

By Anette Jönsson | 11 March 2009

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Asia Aluminum bond tender at risk of rejection

Bondholders are unhappy with the offer, while the chairman stresses that it is the only way to prevent liquidation.

By Anette Jönsson | 2 March 2009

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Indonesia raises $3 billion from bond sale

Rival bankers attack the sovereign GMTN issue as being too cheap. Sour grapes anyone?

By Dan Slater | 2 March 2009

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Nine Dragons offers to buy back bonds

The paper manufacturer offers to pay 53 cents to the dollar to buy back the remaining $283.75 million of a bond it issued less than a year ago.

By Anette Jönsson | 10 February 2009

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KDB raises $2 billion in second Korean bond sale

Korea Development Bank's benchmark deal follows on the heels of Kexim's $2 billion offering and lifts hopes that credit markets are re-opening.

By Rupert Walker | 19 January 2009

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Kexim pays premium for jumbo deal

Export-Import Bank of Korea sets the pace for other Korean borrowers by raising $2 billion without an explicit government guarantee.

By Rupert Walker | 14 January 2009

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Korea may sell $5 billion of foreign bonds in 2009

Korea intends to launch its biggest offer of foreign currency-denominated bonds since 1998, once its currency stabilises.

By Mukul Munish | 20 October 2008

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Legend issues domestic bond in tough conditions

Conglomerate Legend Holdings raises $293 million through a seven-year renminbi-denominated bond, while a challenging market environment prompts the PBOC to cut rates again.

By Mukul Munish | 9 October 2008

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Investors cautious about samurais as markets turn volatile

The turbulent markets mean that investors in samurai bonds will favour deals that offer a higher return.

By Mukul Munish | 17 September 2008

Private Capital

Cat bonds worldwide and worthwhile

A truly uncorrelated asset class yielding stable returns.

By Michael Stahel, Hilary Paul, Christian Bruns | 4 December 2007

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Philippines flags bond warranty to prevent sell-off

The sovereign hopes to avert a sell-off of government bonds by offering a warranty that replaces foreign-currency bonds with peso bonds.

By Rosie Slater | 3 December 2007

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Philippine bonds steady as credit-crunch fears allayed

Despite unfavourable fiscal news released in the country’s budget report, Philippine bonds hold steady following Bernanke’s address to the US Congress.

By Rosie Slater | 20 July 2007

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Bond bear awakening

How much further will bond yields rise? Ping An's head of research, Chi Lo, investigates US and China scenarios.

By Chi Lo | 20 June 2007

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The stock is dead, long live commodities, says Rogers

Investment guru Jim Rogers says the rise of China and the change in the status of the US dollar as a reserve currency is having a profound impact on global demand.

By Howard Winn | 30 March 2007

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Australian debt dilemma

An Australian court case could have a revolutionary effect on the local debt market, according to managing director for Standard & Poor's in Australia and New Zealand, ...

By Christopher Dalton | 21 February 2007

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Can Indonesian corporates get away without repaying bonds?

Maybe. We talk to an experienced Herbert Smith corporate partner about the implications of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ruling that a $500 million bond transaction ...

By Lara Wozniak | 13 February 2007

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ING's bond team recommends investors take risk

ING’s Asian dollar bond team predicts a harder sell for its emerging market strategy in 2007 but continues to target riskier assets.

By Samuel Riding | 30 November 2006

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What's happened to Asian international bond issuance?

Confusing statements from the new Fed Chairman have forced Asia's international bond markets to go deathly quiet.

By Timothy Cuffe | 16 May 2006

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ICICI bonds with US investors

India''s largest private sector bank brings the country''s first 144a deal since 1997.

By Jackie Horne | 10 November 2005

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