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Latest block this week in volatile conditions
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  • Haniel achieved on Wednesday evening a combined sale of Metro shares and notes exchangeable into Metro shares, in an overnight deal that totalled just under €1bn and tapped heavily into Europe’s increasing trend toward negative yields.
  • As block trade bankers had predicted, the fireworks are starting again as companies emerge from blackouts. Five deals totalling €2.8bn were sold on Wednesday night, but there were no auctions: all of them were mandated trades, leaving banks away from the action with nothing to bid on.
  • As block trade bankers had predicted, the fireworks are starting again as companies emerge from blackouts. Five deals totalling €2.8bn were sold on Wednesday night, but there were no auctions: all of them were mandated trades, leaving banks away from the action with nothing to bid on.
  • Equity capital markets bankers are ready for the UK general election to produce a period of disrupted markets if the result is inconclusive. But they emphasise that wider factors governing supply and demand for European stocks are likely to be the dominant factor in whether UK ECM is busy for the rest of 2015.
  • Far East Horizon has been at the centre of its second selldown in less than a month, with KKR offloading shares via a HK$1.54bn ($199m) block trade on the evening of May 4. While there were plenty of orders, they were small in size because of the Hong Kong-listed stock’s recent run-up in value.
  • Brightoil Petroleum is making a second attempt at raising funds via a top-up placement of shares, opening bookbuilding for a HK$1.046bn ($135m) deal on the evening of May 7. The company has taken a different tack this time round, launching a bigger deal with not only a fixed price but with also just one bookrunner at the helm.