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  • Steel giant Posco has raised W187.7bn ($159.7m) after offloading its entire position in South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group, at a time when the benchmark Kospi index has fallen 3.1% in the past month.
  • The bounce in international equities since the election of Donald Trump as US president has led, as widely expected by market participants, to a wave of block trades this week, some of which were covered very quickly.
  • Financial markets have changed their whole investment mindset in the past seven days, as lightly as an actor changing clothes. Out has gone lower-for-longer pessimism and slavery to central banks; in has come a belief in growth and enthusiasm for higher rates and inflation, writes Jon Hay.
  • Warehouses De Pauw, the Belgian warehouse company controlled by the De Pauw family, has successfully raised €178m through an overnight capital increase to finance the acquisition of new warehouses in the Netherlands.
  • Last week’s shock US election result caused a rout in emerging markets, with stocks and currencies in southeast Asia among the hardest hit. But unlike in the past, this has not brought equity capital markets activity to a standstill, as share sales in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand showed this week. John Loh reports.
  • The ferocious onslaught of block issuance is continuing tonight, with four vendors out in the market, led by the Dutch government, which has begun the next phase of privatising ABN Amro by selling 65m shares, a 7% stake, worth €1.36bn.