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The US was set to raise tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods, as GlobalCapital went to press, after talks between the two economic powers appeared to break down. Few people predicted it, most having prematurely stopped worrying about the US-China trade war and its impact on markets. -
Global equity markets suffered their worst days of the year this week after an apparent breakdown in trade talks between the US and China, causing investors to sell and volatility to spike and possibly wrecking equity issuance plans, write Sam Kerr and Ross Lancaster.
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US fund manager BlackRock has pulled the plug on a rescue deal for ailing Italian bank Carige, setting the stage for a difficult political argument over whether to approve yet another costly government bailout.
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US president Donald Trump caused turmoil in global financial markets this week, after threatening to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods. But although Trump stirred up trouble, Chinese start-up Luckin Coffee was not put off from brewing a US IPO. With heavy-hitting institutional investors already piling in to the offering, the company looks on track to raise more than half a billion dollars. Jonathan Breen reports.
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UniCredit’s chief executive, Jean Pierre Mustier, moved fast this week to sell €1bn of stock in FinecoBank, the Italian bank’s online brokerage, after a decision to deconsolidate the unit. Many in the market see UniCredit's accelerating asset sales as an effort to boost its capital position before exploring M&A opportunities in 2020. Aidan Gregory reports.
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Headhunter Group, the Russian recruitment software firm, priced a $220m IPO on Wednesday in the first new listing from a Russian issuer since November 2017.
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