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Carrefour (CAFP; Baa1, BBB; S) Reported €200m Civil Fine

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Cash curve is unch, equities -9%.


  • As we said the (Civil) fine is rumoured to be €200m and came from a news article in La Lettre (here).
  • We don't see a press release on the Economic ministry's website or a reg. release from Carrefour but the source we linked above has screenshotted images from the ministry that indicates on the first page that it will intervene in the proceedings that began in December last year.
  • On the 2nd page it details clauses that will be required to be amended by Carrefour in contracts. We've put that through a translate for non-speakers, please note could be prone to errors.
  • Re credit curve, CAFP has underperformed last week and we had no interest in fighting that (even if it was on sentiment) given relative richness.
  • It's come closer to our fair value but we still see rotations into Woolworth's 28s as very attractive (+25bps) and further out pickup into Tesco 31s (+15) - both into cheap views of ours.

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