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In four working days, the volume of EMEA equity-linked issuance this year has quadrupled. Two unusually large deals, both into Italian blue chips — Telecom Italia and UniCredit — came on Thursday and Monday nights.
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That some international investors still have appetite for Russian risk was made clear again on Monday night, when Lenta, the hypermarket group, raised $225m of new capital to finance expansion.
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Two equity block trades are in the market tonight, both in supermarket groups: Russia’s Lenta and France’s Carrefour.
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Thursday’s accelerated bookbuild action comprised the first block trade in Com Hem, the Swedish cable company, since its IPO.
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Equity accelerated bookbuild activity was lively this week, reflecting generally buoyant stock markets and investors eager for paper as quantitative easing begins to bite.
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In a busy night of block trade activity on Monday, the standout deal — though not the biggest — was a 9.98% capital increase by Delta Lloyd, the Dutch insurance company.