Greece may have passed a milestone and its bond market has been lucrative for some investors, but the road to recovery doesn't look much shorter.
South Korean financial institutions' investment into foreign securities rose 27.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2015 due to insurers' demand for foreign bonds, central bank data showed Thursday.
Under the current situation where the market widely believes that the bullish bond market will continue, to reasonably cool down the bond market may promote its rational development.
Corporate financing in South Korea jumped last month as companies increase sales of bonds amid low borrowing costs, financial watchdog data showed Tuesday.
South Korea plans to sell the Chinese yuan-denominated sovereign bonds for the first time as it pushes to become one of the offshore yuan hubs in Asia, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The north China city of Tianjin achieved its biggest overseas financing for city construction in the Hong Kong market, suggesting global investors are still interested in Chinese local bonds despite an economic slowdown.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country's largest bank, plans to sell the Chinese yuan-denominated bonds in South Korea Tuesday for the first time in a non-resident capacity, the bank's Seoul branch said Monday.
Portugal's 3.5 billion euros (4.55 billion U.S. dollars) debt sale of 15-year bonds on Wednesday came as little surprise, said analysts.
Portugal is ready to issue 15-year debt bonds for the first time since it received a 78-billion-euro bailout from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in May 2011, according to local media reports on Tuesday.
China's top legislature on Sunday adopted a revision to the Budget Law which clears ambiguity and closes loopholes in managing the trillions of yuan involved in fiscal revenue and spending.
Companies' first sale of stocks, or initial public offering (IPO) and corporate debt sales in South Korea recorded the highest this year in July, leading to a more than 30 percent rise in direct corporate financing, financial watchdog data showed Thursday.
Despite a faltering renminbi, record high issuance and growing appetite around the world have reaffirmed the offshore yuan bond as a tempting investment.
China's central bank on Wednesday called for more financing channels for the country's import and export businesses, in efforts to stabilize foreign trade.
China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced on Monday that it will sell treasury bonds worth of 28 billion yuan (4.55 billion U.S. dollars) in Hong Kong this year.
Continued depreciation of the RMB yuan has made investors more cautious in credit checks of offshore yuan bond issuers as the fear of a market reaction has caused some Chinese companies to turn to dollar bonds to raise cash.
Four mainland-headquartered banks on Tuesday issued bonds in renminbi worth 6.7 billion yuan (1.1 billion U.S. dollars) in Taiwan.
The Lao government will this week launch its sale of 3 billion baht (93.56 million U.S. dollars) in denominated bonds to Thailand with aims to accelerate national development.
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