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Anglo American’s announcement this week that it will increase its asset sales target to $4bn, as part of a plan to adjust to painfully lower minerals prices, is the latest sign of two trends that are expected to drive M&A activity and equity capital markets business in 2016: carve-outs and divestments of assets; and the shake-up in natural resources. -
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) is set to launch on January 1 in a keenly-anticipated ceremony that will be attended by top government officials and foreign investors eyeing a stake in the soon-to-be unified bourse.
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Credit Suisse completed its Sfr4.7bn ($4.72bn) rights issue on Thursday with a 99% take-up. Together with another four large rights issues now in the market, the financing tool is set to give ECM a much-needed end-of-year volume boost.
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Malaysia’s Hong Leong Financial Group has sealed its MR1.1bn ($261m) rights issue as shareholders piled into the trade, leading to an oversubscription.
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Shares in Delta Lloyd, the Dutch insurance company, fell 10% on Monday after it announced a €1bn rights issue to strengthen its solvency as it plans for new EU insurance regulation. By Thursday, they were 29% down.
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Around this time last year, I reviewed the dismal performance of the Hong Kong primary markets, and ventured a guess that investors could instead turn en masse to ECM transactions in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia - and even the Philippines. How wrong I was!
