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  • European equity capital markets continued to reel from volatility across the Atlantic on Friday. A sell-off in tech stocks is making the block trade market difficult and a popular IPO suffered on its first day of trading.
  • Europe’s equity bankers are looking nervously across the Atlantic at a prolonged sell-off in US stocks that began when fears of impending inflation caused investors to dump tech stocks. The contagion has spread to the European markets, with investor fear starting to show in recent block trades, writes Sam Kerr.
  • The majority shareholder in Danish insurer Tryg has completed a 53m share sale to part-fund its participation in the company’s $6bn-equivalent rights issue.
  • Xtrion, the majority shareholder of Belgian semi-conductor company Melexis, sold 1.4m shares in Melexis on Tuesday night. The sale was part of an overall 1.7m package sold to investors in order to increase the Belgian firm's freefloat in the hope that it will join the country's benchmark stock indices.
  • Fastned, the Dutch operator of charging stations for electric cars, has raised €150m to finance an expansion of its network across Europe, at the end of a wild week for tech and green energy stocks.
  • SK Holdings pocketed W1.12tr ($1bn) from a block trade of SK Biopharmaceuticals, but the deal hit the South Korean drug company’s share price hard, sending it tumbling more than 17%.