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  • It is not impossible that European stock markets could end this year at a new post-crisis high, so strong has been the recovery since the mid-October dip. It is probably too late, however, for many IPO candidates to benefit. Of the last three major deals of the year, two have now been completed.
  • Huadian Fuxin Energy Corp has raised HK$1.72bn ($222m) through a private placement of H-shares to a group of 10 investors, with the company’s sector of operation winning the favour of the market.
  • Arctic Securities and Pareto Securities conducted a swift block trade today in shares of Akva Group, the Norwegian provider of technology and services to the fish farming industry.
  • Drillisch, the German telecoms company, launched this evening an accelerated bookbuild to sell about 9.76% of its stock, which it had held as treasury shares.
  • Chinese company Sinopharm Group raised a chunky HK$5.55bn ($715m) through a private placement of shares to nine investors over the weekend, with its stock sliding by around 6% on Monday’s trading session.
  • Louis XIII Holdings, which is building a luxury hotel in Macau, is looking to tap the ECM market to fund some of the construction and is mulling a combination of placement, convertible bonds and a rights issue.