Another Puzzling Bond Issue, this time by PDVSA « The Devil’s Excrement

Economic mismanagement at its best.... and they say they're socialists....!!!! Looks more like greedy "neo-liberal capitalists"!!!


Another Puzzling Bond Issue, this time by PDVSA « The Devil’s Excrement:

Once again, Venezuela, this time via its oil company PDVSA, gets ready to issue a bond which puzzles markets. As investors were asking for more transparency, more order and fewer surprises in the country’s issuance, PDVSA did exactly the opposite, announcing the sale of a US$ 3 billion issue to be sold via the banking system and with identical characteristics to the Venezuela Global 2022 bond issued by the Republic last August.

There are many puzzles:

-Why make it identical to the existing sovereign bond?

-Why pay a coupon of 12.75% when it would have sold equally well at a lower coupon? In fact, the Global 2022 was issued at a time last August that the yield curve was much higher than it is today.

-Why issue something so unexpected, after sending different signals to investors that are asking for more clarity?

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