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Equity capital market participants cheered the publication on Wednesday of former EU commissioner Jonathan Hill's review of London listing rules. The report, written on behalf of the UK Treasury, recommended sweeping changes in order to attract more companies to the London Stock Exchange. On Thursday, Deliveroo, the food delivery company, announced it would be listing in London. -
Spreads on Petrobras’s bonds recovered most of their lost ground this week after a sharp sell-off followed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro sacking the company’s chief executive on Monday. But while strong quarterly results released on Wednesday were a reminder of the state-owned oil and gas giant’s fundamental strength, Bolsonaro’s actions have led to questions around policy decisions in an economy with major fiscal issues.
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Development Bank of Japan became the second SSA borrower of the week to sell a dollar benchmark in the supplied three year tenor, tightening pricing by 5bp on the sustainability bond.
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UniCredit’s global head of equity capital markets and equity syndicate has left the bank after allegations of having done inappropriate side work for Markus Braun, former CEO of the collapsed Germany payments company Wirecard.
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New sanctions from the EU on Russian figures following the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny are set to have little impact on Russia, according to market experts. However, companies withdrawing from the Nord Stream 2 project indicate a growing uneasiness around conducting business with Russian entities.
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Petrobras bonds slumped on Monday after Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro nominated retired general and former defence minister Joaquim Silva de Luna to be the state-owned oil and gas giant’s new CEO. One analyst decried “corporate statism” as others saw the decision as a warning about the direction of Brazil’s fiscal policy.
