Europe's bond market has had a record startBloomberg Terminal to the year, with the first two weeks racking up €195 billion ($213 billion) of syndicated debt placements. This beats the €178 billion tally over the same period last year by nearly 10% — which is great news for governments and companies that need to find buyers for a lot of debt in the coming 12 months.

Here are four headlines that ran on the Bloomberg Terminal last week: