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  • 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.
  • Bayer successfully pulled off what was arguably this year’s biggest European ECM deal on Tuesday night, with a €4bn mandatory convertible and €1.5bn delta equity placement. But although both were fully sold and have traded stably, a good number of deal-playing investors are still putting in small orders.
  • Bayer, the German life sciences group, picked Tuesday night to launch the first part of its $19bn equity financing for its $66bn takeover of Monsanto. Bayer's deal comes as equity markets are revitalised by the new conviction that Western policy is shifting to reflation.
  • The bounce in international equities since the election of Donald Trump as US president was widely expected by market participants to lead to a round of block trades as sellers looked to take advantage of the favourable conditions.