BASIC INDUSTRIES: Air Liquide (AIFP A2/A/NR): New Issue FV

• Guidance unch: 4.25% Jul-34 gilt + 5.5/6.0bps
• Size: GBP benchmark (MNI expects GBP8.5-10.0bln)
• Orderbooks in excess of GBP110bln (inc JLM interest of GBP9.6bln)
• Maturity: 7 March 2035
• ISIN: GB00BT7J0027
• Settlement: 12 February, 2025 (T+1)
• Bookrunners: Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi (B&D/DM), Goldman Sachs International Bank, HSBC and NatWest.
• Timing: Books open, pricing later today

From market source

• Key point for us (in addition to what we learnt in the FT interview) is that she doesn't point to the BOE's updated model-based estimates for equilibrium (2.25-3.75%) but she points to the MaPS survey that has the neutral rate at 3.00-3.50%.
• This suggests that is more in line with her thinking.
• And if she wants to stay restrictive we are 100bp above the upper end of the neutral estimate.

• "It is not just the immediate policy decision that needs to be communicated. Providing insights on the future path matters for the activist policy maker. Notwithstanding the 50 basis point cut now, structural impediments to achieving the target on a sustained basis are not yet fully purged. The activist policymaker needs to maintain policy rate discipline and restrictiveness even after this immediate decision. This ensures that, as we move through the inflation hump, expectations remain anchored both in the near and longer term."
• "I expect that Bank Rate will average well above the nominal equilibrium rate implied by the estimates set out in the August 2018 Inflation Report. I note that respondents in our Market Participants’ Survey have been consistent in putting this longer-run average at about 3-3½ percent."
• "I chose 50 basis points now, along with continued restrictiveness in the future, and a higher long-term Bank Rate to 1) ‘cut through the noise’, 2) anchor expectations through the inflation hump, and 3) acknowledge structural impediments and macroeconomic volatility in longer term."