China Huarong Asset Management, the country's largest bad-loan manager, and electronic maker Midea, launched benchmark Reg-S dollar-denominated bond offerings on Thursday, joining a slew of Chinese credits that have tapped the market this week.
Their fund raising exercises nipped into the market ahead of a speech on Friday by US Federal Reserve Governor Janet Yellen that may signal rising rates.
Huarong’s $2.5 billion deal in particularly proved to be wildly popular, building up a peak order book of $13.5 billion. This was not that surprising given the group went out with unusually attractive price guidance and even though it subsequently narrowed this down quite aggressively, the deal...