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High-Grade Firms Snap Week-Long Europe Debt Market Absence

05. März 2026 um 10:41
Borrowers including Baker Hughes Co. on Thursday offered Europe’s first high-grade corporate debt deals in a week, as activity cranked up following several days of near standstill because of conflict in the Middle East.

A worker uses a pallet trolley to transport crates of beer in the warehouse of an Albert hypermarket, operated by Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV, at the Nove Butovice shopping mall in Prague, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Czech inflation quickened more than expected to a new 13-year high in October, which the central bank said justified its campaign of the most aggressive interest-rate increases in the European Union.

Global Bond Binge Disrupted After War Raises Credit Risk

A global rush to raise debt has been put on hold after conflict in the Middle East rattled markets and sent credit-risk gauges soaring.

Stocks trading data at the headquarters of Euronext NV in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. France’s economy will sustain steady growth at the start of the year, unchecked by persistent geopolitical risks and uncertainty, the central bank said. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
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