Argentina’s TGS trades flattish; Turk Eximbank edges up; Camposol, Blom Bank join calendar

By Rebecca Melvin

New York, April 27 – Argentina’s Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA’s new 6¾% notes traded flattish on Friday after the oil and gas distributor priced $500 million of the seven-year notes.

The TGS notes were quoted at 99¾ bid, 100.2 offered around midsession after the deal priced at 99.725, according to a New York-based trader.

The notes were priced under Rule 144A and Regulation S by HSBC, Itau Unibanco, J.P. Morgan and Banco Santander.

Turkiye Ihracat Kredi Bankasi AS’ new 6 1/8% notes traded up more than 1/3 of a point on Friday after the Ankara-based export credit agency priced $500 million of the six-year notes.

The Turk Eximbank notes were quoted at 99.752 bid, 100.01 offered after the notes priced at 99.343, a London-based syndicate source said.

Citigroup, ING, Mizuho Securities, MUFG, SMBC Nikko and Standard Chartered were joint bookrunners of the Rule 144A and Regulation S notes.

Also pricing overnight was Development Bank of Kazakhstan’s KZT 100 billion 8.95% five-year notes at 98.82 to yield 9¼%. Pricing of the deal came tight compared to guidance for a yield of 9 3/8% to 9½% and earlier talk in the mid-9% range.

Meanwhile, Prague-based hydro electric company Energo-Pro as priced €250 million of six-year notes on Friday at par to yield a coupon of 4½%. Pricing came at the tight end of guidance for a yield of 4½% to 4¾%. The notes are non-callable for three years.

New deals were also announced that are expected to price next week. Peru’s Camposol SA said it scheduled a roadshow for a planned offering of medium-term dollar-denominated notes.

BofA Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan are organizing the fixed-income investor meetings for the Rule 144A and Regulation S deal.

Meetings will begin on Monday in New York with a senior unsecured notes offering to follow, subject to market conditions, after meeting stops in London, Santiago, Zurich and Geneva through Wednesday.

Lebanon’s Blom Bank sal also jointed the calendar with a dollar-denominated, five-year issue of deposit certificates expected to price under Regulation S only.

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