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  • Carlyle conducted its second block trade in Applus Services shares on Wednesday night. The industrial testing and inspection company has been a poor bet for investors in its €1.2bn IPO in May 2014. Exposure to the oil and gas industry has cost it 40% of its market value.
  • Equity capital markets are fizzing with deals this week, though team heads at investment banks wondering how they are going to make their budgets this year will not be reassured, as most of the transactions are small.
  • Four smallish equity block trades were launched in Europe on Tuesday afternoon, after a strong day for stocks.
  • Photo app maker Meitu is planning to list in Hong Kong in 2016 and has mandated a trio of banks to lead the deal.
  • Upward-sloping stockmarkets this week have brought a big crop of block trades, including the expected first selldowns of shares in Scout24, the German property and car sales website, and Elis, the French workwear group. That trade was launched on Thursday evening, along with the last of a series of big sales of stock in insurer NN Group by ING.
  • The blossoming of equity capital markets in Europe and the US since Easter continued this week, with several more IPOs — including two in Prague — added to the varied crop on offer. But the governments made the biggest splashes.