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Underwriting left unused after deal is 33% oversubscribed
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The second of Italy’s big bank rights issues this year has begun — the €850m issue for Banca Carige.
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India’s stock market fell prey to a vicious sell down this week, with the benchmark Sensex index plunging 900 points since Monday, an event bankers say could hurt IPOs and share sales in the short term as investors lick their wounds. -
Shenzhen Investment has raised HK$2.77bn ($357m) from a top-up placement of shares sold to investors at a hefty 9.6% discount. But the impact on the company in the aftermarket was pretty severe, with the stock sliding by an equally large 9.85%.
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Malaysia’s AirAsia X, the long-haul unit of budget carrier AirAsia, has wrapped up its MR391.1m ($105.3m) three-for-four rights issue with flying colours, as shareholders signed up for far more stock than was available.
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Equity capital markets bankers have a juicy new prize to compete for: the UK government is to privatise the remaining 30% it holds of Royal Mail by the end of this year.
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The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp (TWSE) took steps this week to repair years of anaemic trading on its stock market. It faces an uphill battle, however, as Taiwanese investors are jumping on the A-share bandwagon, draining liquidity from the country's volume-poor market.
