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* Citibank NA Rating: Aa2/AA-/AA

Bullish non-farm payroll data released last Friday proved the catalyst for a dramatic reversal in sentiment this week and the trigger for an avalanche of new dollar debt. The result was a record weekly volume of more than $19bn. According to US based bond analysts, this total exceeds the previous record of $18.13bn set in March 1999.

Denmark Tele Danmark is raising a Eu650m CP back-up facility, led by Unibank. The loan will take the borrower's CP programme from Eu350m to Eu1bn.

* Telia will close today (Friday) at least four times subscribed, according to bankers on the deal. The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and UBS Warburg-led Eu7.5bn IPO is likely to be priced in the top half of the Skr70-Skr92 range. The range for the deal was set as sentiment reached its lowest ebb for telecoms stocks.

Bullish non-farm payroll data released last Friday proved the catalyst for a dramatic reversal in sentiment this week and the trigger for an avalanche of new dollar debt. The result was a record weekly volume of more than $19bn. According to US based bond analysts, this total exceeds the previous record of $18.13bn set in March 1999.

There is a frantic game of musical chairs taking place in the Euromarkets, with more money being waved around than at any time since the loony mid-1980s. In these spendthrift times you never seem to hear of a guaranteed compensation package of less than £1m, and that is for young movers and shakers in their twenties who, only a few years ago, were wearing short trousers or going to girl guide summer camps. At Merrill Lynch the prospective arrival of 'TJ' Lim has put the cat among the pigeons. The Merrill pack is being constantly reshuffled to make way for TJ's pals. Some Merrill folk may not be the happiest of bunnies but the overall message is that the firm is on a hiring spree. Merrill knows that it is being kippered in international fixed income by Deutsche Bank and TJ's mission is to close in on Edson Mitchell and to put a potato up Deutsche's exhaust pipe.

SALES of BSkyB stock by Kirch and Vivendi raised a total of Eu2.2bn this week and sent the media company's share price tumbling, amid recriminations on the timing of the deals. Having closed at 1,371p on Monday before the deals, the stock fell more than 6% on Tuesday and a further 5.76% on Wednesday. Yesterday (Thursday) it closed at 1,145p. Market observers were divided on which deal had done the stock price more harm.

Market report: Compiled by Frank Hracs, TD Securities, Toronto

Glencore International AG, the Swiss based commodities company, this week launched the largest ever securitisation of trade receivables in the bond market - a $700m, triple-A rated transaction lead managed by Deutsche Bank. The deal parcels Glencore's revenues from trading metals, minerals and oil products with customers in 42 countries worldwide.