Marcus Ashworth, Columnist

Europe’s Bond Tsunami Finds Willing Buyers

The fixed-income market is off to a record start for new issues.

January 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM UTC

Marcus Ashworth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering European markets. Previously, he was chief markets strategist for Haitong Securities in London.

Fund managers are willing bidders for a flood of European bonds.
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Europe's bond market has had a record start to the year, with the first two weeks racking up €195 billion ($213 billion) of syndicated debt placements. This beats the €178 billion tally over the same period last year by nearly 10% — which is great news for governments and companies that need to find buyers for a lot of debt in the coming 12 months.

Here are four headlines that ran on the Bloomberg Terminal last week: