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Growing demand for green format but issuers tread cautiously
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Pauline Renaud
WEEK IN NUMBERS
60%
THE PERCENTAGE OF INVESTORS
RESPONDING TO A BAML SURVEY WHO
CITE A TRADE WAR AS THE BIGGEST RISK
4
THE NUMBER OF YEARS SINCE GOLDMAN
SACHS WAS LAST IN THE STERLING
MARKET. UNUSUALLY, THE BANK TURNED
TO THE SECTOR FOR ITS FIRST TRADE
POST-RESULTS
US$1.75bn/€1bn
THE SIZE OF EACH TRANCHE OF
ALTICE’S DUAL-TRANCHE OFFERING LAST
WEEK IN ITS FIRST BOND MARKET OUTING
SINCE ITS WOES LAST WINTER
2.62%
THE YIELD ON TWO-YEAR TREASURIES.
IT’S THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2008 THAT
THE BENCHMARK NOTE HAS BEEN
QUOTED ABOVE 2.60% AND THE SPREAD
WITH 10-YEAR TREASURIES IS NOW JUST
26.5bp
€792m
THE AMOUNT THE ECB BOUGHT
THROUGH ITS CSPP IN TRADES SETTLED
IN THE WEEK UP TO JULY 13
In total, it has bought €164.123bn
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Trade war