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Foncière des Murs, the French property company controlled by Foncière des Régions, will raise €200m of equity in a rights issue to partly finance its €542m acquisition of a portfolio of 19 Spanish hotels from Merlin Properties. -
Equity investors have something new to believe in: fiscal largesse in the US kickstarting global growth. That’s good news for the many companies and banks with capital to raise in 2017 — the trouble is, markets are likely to be as volatile as Donald Trump’s temper. By Jon Hay, additional reporting by Aidan Gregory
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JP Morgan and Mediobanca have closed the book for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s €5bn equity capital raising. Results are not out yet, but it is widely expected to have gathered very little demand. The government is understood to be poised to bail out MPS, with €20bn of firepower at its disposal, but the details of how and when this would be done are not yet clear.
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Shares in Elis Services, the French bed linen and laundry company, gained 8.6% on Thursday after it announced on Wednesday night that it was buying Indusal of Spain and Lavebras of Brazil.
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Shares in Greencore, the Anglo-Irish sandwich and convenience food producer, closed 3% higher on Wednesday after it completed its £439m rights issue to finance its acquisition of Peacock Foods, a US competitor.
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ECM activity in Asia has slowed to a trickle in the week before Christmas, but investors still have something to chew on courtesy of two real estate investment trusts in southeast Asia.
