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The Indian government has decided to offload a 10% stake in Housing and Urban Development Corp (Hudco) via an IPO. -
China may have grabbed the spotlight after its MSCI review this week but Pakistan was the real winner with its upgrade to emerging market status. Bankers expect the move will light a fire under equity capital markets and give a big boost to IPOs, especially in sectors like infrastructure. John Loh reports.
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Index provider MSCI surprised markets on Tuesday by once again delaying the inclusion of A-shares in its Emerging Markets index. It conceded that China had made some progress, but said the country still has more work to do to tackle concerns over repatriation and restrictions on launching financial products linked to onshore exchanges.
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CIMB has made 16 people redundant in investment banking and equities, the second time the Malaysian lender has cut regional jobs this year amid a slump in deal flow.
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Restrictions on launching A-share linked financial products is one of the remaining hurdles for Chinese equities joining the MSCI. But as solving the issue will require China to relinquish more capital controls, there is unlikely to be a swift conclusion.
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MSCI has once again highlighted the inability for foreign investors to move money freely in and out of China as a reason for leaving A-shares out of its Emerging Market Index. While the world’s second largest economy has moved quickly to reform other parts of its financial sector, market participants are divided about whether China will budge on capital controls.
