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Shares in Amundi, the French asset manager, fell 1% on Monday after its shareholders gave near-unanimous approval at an extraordinary general meeting to its €1.4bn capital increase to partly finance its €3.545bn acquisition of Pioneer Investments from UniCredit. -
RenoNorden, the struggling Norwegian waste management company, on Monday launched a highly dilutive rights issue to avoid breaking its debt covenants after losses in 2016, but investors appeared to welcome the news, sending the shares up 6.4%.
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Shares in Diös Fastigheter, the Swedish property company, closed 4.5% higher on Thursday after it completed its Skr1.85bn ($209m) rights issue to partly finance the acquisition of a portfolio of mainly commercial and retail properties from Castellum in cities in northern Sweden.
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Qingdao Port International Co is seeking the OK from shareholders for an H-share placement that could raise around HK$1.03bn ($132.8m), according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Malaysia’s UMW Oil & Gas Corp (UMW-OG) has proposed to raise MR1.8bn ($405.9m) in a renounceable rights issue to smooth the way for a corporate exercise.
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Shares in Life Healthcare Group Holdings, one of South Africa’s largest private hospital operators, closed 2.5% higher on Monday after it said late on Friday that its rights issue would be R1.7bn ($130m) smaller than planned.
