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Mega Deals

Thursday, February 16th, 2017

Via Bloomberg: IG CREDIT: A History of Mega IG Deals 2017-02-15 19:01:26.409 GMT By Nico Grant (Bloomberg) -- Just two months into 2017, and there has been one mega investment-grade deal and three more that have come close. Investors have gotten used to issuance sizes of $15b or more over the past two years, but it wasn’t ...

Yellen Dissected

Tuesday, February 14th, 2017

Via Stephen Stanley at Amherst Pierpont Securities: Chair Yellen’s prepared testimony is in my view easily the most hawkish message that she has ever delivered in her tenure as Fed Chair.  She stopped short of promising a rate hike in March, but she did more than enough to put March on ...

Scoping Out Yellen Testimony

Monday, February 13th, 2017

Via Stephen Stanley at Amherst Pierpont Securities: Chair Yellen’s semi-annual monetary policy testimony is likely to be an important venue for the near-term outlook for Fed policy.  The written testimony will probably be Yellen’s last scripted word before the March FOMC meeting, so if Yellen and the Committee perceive that a ...

More Data Dissected

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Via Stephen Stanley at Amherst Pierpont Securities: The ISM non-manufacturing survey data were broadly steady in January.  The headline measure was essentially unchanged at 56.5.  The new orders and production components were down 2 points and half a point respectively.  In contrast, the employment gauge increased by 2 points.  After a ...

Labor Data

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Via TDSecurities:          Nonfarm payrolls rose by a strong 227k in January, beating expectations (consensus: 180K, TD: 175k).   ·         Levels of slack broadly inched higher in January but for good reasons, as a slightly higher unemployment rate (4.78% vs 4.72%) was accompanied by a rise in labor force participation.   ·         ...

Refunding Preview

Tuesday, January 31st, 2017

Via Bloomberg: UST REFUNDING PREVIEW: $62b Expected; Bill Supply in Focus 2017-01-31 15:57:55.937 GMT By Alexandra Harris (Bloomberg) -- February refunding announcement at 8:30am ET Wednesday may feature outlook for bill issuance, especially in light of debt-ceiling reinstatement March 16; next week’s auction sizes are expected to be unchanged from November refunding ($24b 3Y, $23b 10Y, $15b 30Y). * ...

Microsoft Final

Monday, January 30th, 2017

Via Bloomberg: PRICED: Microsoft Corp $17b Debt Offering Across 7 Tranches 2017-01-30 21:43:15.424 GMT By Lisa Loray (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft priced $17b across seven tranches. * Tranches (Guidance, IPT) * $1.5b 3Y (2/06/2020) at +40 * +45 (+/-5), +60a * Optional redemption; MWC * $1.75b 5Y (2/06/2022) at +50 * +55 (+/-5), +70a * Optional redemption: MWC; Par call 1mo prior ...

Overnight Data Drop

Monday, January 30th, 2017

Via Robert Sinche at Amherst Pierpont Securities: JAPAN: In advance of the BOJ meeting data will be released on December IP, Household Spending and the labor market. The Bberg consensus expects another 0.3% MOM rise in IP after a 1.5% surge in November, although YOY growth would slow to 3.0%. The ...

Microsoft Refunding

Monday, January 30th, 2017

This articles provides details on the mega multitranche ($17 billion) Microsoft offering. I think that circa 1980 the US Treasury  quarterly refunding was about $6 billion per quarter. Via Bloomberg: LAUNCH: Microsoft Corp $17b Debt Offering Across 7 Tranches 2017-01-30 18:09:33.469 GMT By Lisa Loray (Bloomberg) -- Total deal size $17b across seven tranches. * Tranches ...

MSFT Deal

Monday, January 30th, 2017

Microsoft selling as many maturities as possible it seems.   Via Bloomberg: NEW DEAL: Microsoft $Benchmark 3Y, 5Y, 7Y, 10Y, 20Y, 30Y, 40Y 2017-01-30 12:58:55.906 GMT By Brian Smith (Bloomberg) -- Expected to price today. * IPT: * 3Y (2/06/2020): +60a * 5Y (2/06/2022): +70a * 7Y (2/06/2024): +90a * 10Y (2/06/2027): +100a * 20Y (2/06/2037): +115a * 30Y (2/06/2047): +130a * 40Y (2/06/2057): ...