Fixed Income
January 14, 2013
Quotes for Ukrainian sovereign and, especially, corporate Eurobonds continued to rise at the beginning of 2013 after an outstanding 2012. JP Morgan has reported that Ukrainian sovereigns were the second-best-performing emerging market sovereign bonds in 2012, gaining 25.4%. Over the last week the Avangard-15 corporate issue shot up by 3.1% to 99.0/100.7 (10.4%/9.3%), and Ferrexpo-16s were also notably higher, gaining 1.2% to close at 101.3/102.4 (7.4%/7.0%).