Colombia's state-run energy company Ecopetrol raised $1.2 billion in five-and-a-half-year notes and $300 million in 10-year bonds in its latest financing bid, the company said on Wednesday.
Euro zone bond yields rose on Tuesday as investors nudged up expectations about future rate hikes, in cautious markets ahead of the outcome of U.S. debt ceiling talks.
Bahrain's state oil holding firm, nogaholding, is planning a sale of U.S. dollar-denominated Islamic bonds and has offered to tender existing notes for cash, a bank document and filing showed on Monday.
Investors further reeled in their bets on Bank of England interest rate hikes on Friday, a day after the British central bank surprised the market by refraining from a widely expected increase in borrowing costs.
German government bond yields dropped to their lowest levels in a month on Thursday after the Bank of England kept its interest rates on hold, surprising markets that had priced in a 15 basis-point rate hike.