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  • Stockmarkets have crawled out of February’s hole and are back where they were at New Year, though it still looks like a barely registerable rally in the longer slump since last April.
  • The Indian government kicked off the sell-down of 11% of its stake in hydropower producer NHPC on Wednesday, with the two-day bookbuild expected to add Rp27.2bn ($408.4m) to the state’s coffers.
  • Severstal, the steelmaker, reopened the Russian convertible bond market on Tuesday, with what bankers on the deal said was the first issue since 2013.
  • Just two working days after Numis’s dashing block trade in Saga stock on Thursday last week, Credit Suisse brought another sparky, sole-managed deal to the market on Monday night, with a £1bn sale of SABMiller shares for Jan Kulczyk, the Polish billionaire.
  • The block trade market is an exciting, risky part of the equity business. Banks can slip up — but that shows how hard they are competing for deals. If, as it seems, block trades work well for issuers and investors, regulators like the Financial Conduct Authority should not interfere.
  • Saudi Arabia on Monday announced its plans to diversify away from oil production through a plan it called "Vision 2030". But the oil rich nation won't find it easy to execute in the plan, particularly when it comes to attracting skilled foreigners to fuel its goals.
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