Bond Bonanza Raises Threshold for New Emerging-Market Debt Sales
LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Emerging-market issuance is losing its fizz and bond investors are divided in their appetite for risk after a record year for hard-currency debt. With about $290 billion in placements by borrowers from developing nations so far this year, volumes have been slipping since the second week of April when a slew of multi-tranche deals from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt accounted for half of the $50 billion of bonds…
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