TREE NEWS update: Shanghai issued a series of special-purpose local government bonds, including 93 million yuan of 7-year rail transit bonds at a 1.5009% coupon and a 2.90x marginal bid-to-cover. The same 7-year tenor priced 3.00 billion yuan of land reserve bonds at 1.5009% (3.00x), alongside 15.21 billion yuan of 3-year and 9.50 billion yuan of 5-year land reserve bonds at 1.2908% and 1.4106%. Tenors of 10 and 15 years for other special bonds priced at 1.6808% and 1.9505%.
Shanghai Issues Multi-Tranche Special Local Bonds, 7-Year Rail at 1.5009%
The striking feature is the flat 1.5009% coupon shared by the 7-year rail and land reserve tranches despite very different ticket sizes, suggesting the curve is being priced by tenor and policy channel rather than by project risk. The 2.90x marginal bid-to-cover on a small 93 million yuan rail tranche points to demand concentrated at the long end, even as the much larger land reserve books cleared at similar ratios. Whether that compression holds as the 10- and 15-year tranches season is the open question for local government funding costs.
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