Ford: seeking benchmark status

Hope, fear and wonder as a new market opens

Hope, fear and wonder as a new market opens

The good, the bad and the illiquid

Saint-Gobain: no opportunism

Repsol: Argentine ambitions

North West Water: a steady earnings stream

Schneider plugs into a wider market

Lafarge: the need for good timing

Ford is on the pioneer trail again. “Just as in the 1920s Ford paved the way for mass car production, so now it is paving the way for a new era in the corporate-bond market,” says Fares Noujeam, co-head of general capital markets at Bear Stearns.

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