Greater China

Menswear clothing company Mulsanne Group Holding has kickstarted bookbuilding for its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Equity investors who base their trading on the daily news flow emanating from the US and China, are going to have to accept the possibility that the relationship between the two countries will sour.

Logistics real estate platform ESR Cayman has been given the green light for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Xinyi Energy Holding, a Chinese solar power producer, has hit the road to begin drumming up interest in its up to HK$4.4bn ($564m) IPO, according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Index provider MSCI has confirmed, following this month's semi-annual review, that it will raise the inclusion factor of Chinese A-shares from 5% to 10%, effectively increasing the weight of A-shares in its MSCI Emerging Market Index from 0.72% to 1.46%.

Shandong-based coal miner Yankuang Group Co was able to price a $500m tap almost 30bp inside where the existing notes were trading on Thursday, while E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings, a real estate services firm, also added $100m to an outstanding bond.

In this round up, China-US trade tension peaked with US president Donald Trump’s market-moving tweet, Chinese FX reserves dipped in April and the amount of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) quotas approved in April surpassed that of all of last year.

Belgian brewer Anheuser Busch InBev has taken the first step toward floating its Asia Pacific operations on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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.

A number of Chinese real estate companies have returned to the offshore loan market after struggling to raise money in the second half of 2018. Although some bankers said they are more willing to lend than they were last year, they are also complaining about the size of some deals. Pan Yue reports.

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.