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Wednesday, February 6, 3:58 AM Softbank (SFTBF.PK) reportedly intends to issue $3.2B worth of four-year bonds to help finance its acquisition of a 70% stake in Sprint (S) for $20.1B. "Softbank is well-known and popular among individuals," says analyst Mana Nakazora. "There isn’t concern about the bonds remaining unsold." Comment! [Consumer, Tech, M&A]
Tuesday, February 5, 2:02 AM UBS (UBS) offers to buy back 5B francs ($5.5B) in senior debt after the massive downsizing of its investment bank cut its liquidity and funding requirements. While the move will "lower interest expense in the future," UBS says it could also bring "significant" Q1 own credit charges due to a possible tightening of its credit spreads. (Q4 earnings) (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Thursday, January 31, 2:14 PM WisdomTree's (WETF) latest (pdf) is the actively managed Global Corporate Bond ETF (GLCB). Unique in that it can invest in any corporate bond listed anywhere in the globally, GLCB charges 0.45%. Competing ETFs: Passive IBND (ER 0.55%) has significantly less emerging market and high yield exposure but has a similar intermediate duration. Active FWDB (ER 1.26%) is more similar geographically and credit grade-wise but mixes in non-corporate fixed income. RAVI (ER 0.25%) and MINT (ER 0.35%) are both actively managed but have much shorter durations and minimal high yield exposure. RAVI has no emerging exposure. Comment!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 10:55 AM "The complacency is staggering," says an asset manager of the corporate bond market (specifically Europe). When France is able to sell debt at negative rates, just about any corporate issue with a plus sign in front of the yield is going to look good to fund managers. "We are facing quite binary outcomes; investors should be concerned." 1 Comment [Global & FX, Quick Ideas]
Friday, August 10, 2012, 9:05 AM What crisis? Europe's corporate bond market is cruising, investment-grade euro-denominated bonds returning 8.9% YTD. Spreads remain wide - more than 200 bps to sovereign bonds vs. 50 bps pre-crisis - but there are good reasons for this. The search for yield continues, but how much upside is left? Comment! [Global & FX]
Saturday, August 4, 2012, 9:44 AM Focused on what ECB action may be on sovereign debt, markets are underpricing the chance the central bank steps into corporate bonds, opine two Goldman strategists. Measures could include direct purchases of corporate paper or a "funding for lending" scheme (a la the BOE). The moves would allow the ECB to provide market support without violating its mandate against financing of governments. 9 Comments [Global & FX]
Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 3:58 AM China’s 4.2T yuan ($666B) corporate bond market is just 9% of its GDP and the government wants to change that, giving corporate bonds a bigger role in boosting growth and diverting risk from the state-owned banking system. Chinese regulators are positioning themselves to grow the sector. Comment! [Global & FX]
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 2:36 PM When life deals you lemons ... banks (particularly European ones) cutting back lending activity in Asia is leading to a ramp in the development of the corporate bond market there. Companies (ex-Japan) issued $398B in bonds last year, up 29% Y/Y as syndicated bank loans dove 44%. Comment! [Global & FX]

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