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Asia’s bond market has remained reasonably resilient amid the Covid-19 pandemic, despite a big fall in deal flow. Indonesia's Hutama Karya showed just how strong the market can be, when it sold its debut dollar bond. -
More and more Chinese issuers are using the Covid-19 pandemic as a convenient excuse to justify missed or delayed payments of bonds. The trend needs to stop.
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The Indian equity capital market needs all the help it can get amid disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The securities regulator has already loosened some rules, but it needs to go further and relax guidelines around one of issuers’ most preferred fundraising avenues — the qualified institutional placement (QIP).
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Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (BVG) touched off a legal bombshell on Tuesday morning. It left the ECB in an impossible position: it can accept the court's verdict or ignore it, but either decision will undermine its efforts to stabilise Europe's capital markets.
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The economic devastation has made an absolute mockery of predicting corporate earnings and therefore, equity valuation. Companies have given up on providing forward guidance leaving equity investors in the strange position of having to pick stocks without the earnings estimates that they have come to depend upon. Undoubtedly, this makes their work harder but it will also mean they must add to their repertoire of techniques for analysing companies. Many will flounder but a few are bound to shine.
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Chinese bond issuers can feel a sense of relief that the country is starting to end its Covid-19-related lockdowns. But although the coronavirus might become less of a problem for these issuers over the rest of the year, an old enemy will again cause problems. US president Donald Trump is once again rattling his sabre.
