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Emerging economy debt gains new life

By Stacy-Marie Ishmael in New York

Published: September 27 2007 22:47 | Last updated: September 27 2007 22:47

The market for emerging economies’ corporate and sovereign debt has reopened for business, with a Colombian gas company and Mexico both successfully issuing bonds this week.

TGI International on Wednesday sold $750m of 10-year, dollar-denominated bonds. The sale marks the biggest corporate offering by a Colombian company this year, and is the first large corporate benchmark out of Latin America since the beginning of the credit squeeze in July.

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