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  • Capital markets professionals are resigned to a no-deal Brexit, after UK prime minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen failed to find a way through an impasse in trade negotiations over dinner on Wednesday. Equities are set to suffer the most, and the ability of UK companies hurt by Covid-19 to raise capital is now in serious doubt. Sam Kerr, Lewis McLellan and Mike Turner report.
  • Corporate issuers have been turning to the convertible bond market in 2020 to repair balance sheets damaged by Covid-19 and to take advantage of growth opportunities the pandemic presents, spurring issuance to its highest levels in years. Conditions are set for a fair 2021 as well, said bankers.
  • Qiagen, the Dutch diagnostics company, has launched the sale of a new convertible bond to refinance the unwinding of an older bond, set to mature in 2021.
  • Aveva, the UK software company, has completed its £2.6bn rights issue to partially fund the acquisition of OSIsoft a US real-time data producer. The deal marks another success for M&A driven capital raises.
  • China’s Xiaopeng Motors, an electric vehicle (EV) maker, leveraged on a big boost in interest in new energy stocks from investors to raise $2.16bn from a follow-on offering of its American Depositary Shares. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Chinese detergent maker Blue Moon Group has raised HK$9.8bn ($1.27bn) from its Hong Kong IPO, which saw a strong turnout from global and local investors.
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