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Say What?? Seller’s Paradise: Companies Build Bonds for Central Bank to Buy

WSJ

The European Central Bank’s corporate-bond-buying program has stirred so much action in credit markets that some investment banks and companies are creating new debt especially for the central bank to buy.

In two instances, the ECB has bought bonds directly from European companies through so-called private placements, in which debt is sold to a tight circle of buyers without the formality of a wider auction.

It is a startling example of how banks and companies are quickly adapting to the extremes of monetary policy in what is an already unconventional age.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/sellers-paradise-companies-build-bonds-for-central-bank-to-buy-1471815100

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