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  • China Three Gorges Corp, the Chinese state-owned power company, has successfully offloaded €292m of stock in Portuguese energy firm Energias de Portugal, despite four straight days of heavy losses in European equity markets, due to the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus across the continent.
  • Europe's high grade loan bankers are expecting better things from the second quarter of the year, citing the resolution of a handful of macro events. But the rise of the Covid-19 coronavirus hammered the markets this week, which has the potential to put companies off raising loan debt until the second half of the year.
  • Hamburg Commercial Bank will no longer visit Milan on the roadshow for its new tier two bond, with parts of northern Italy having been locked down to contain the spread of Covid-19. But issuers and investors are still managing to get on with their business amid the mounting chaos.
  • It has been an appalling week for stock markets as fears over the coronavirus outbreak gripped investors. Tumbling share prices mean many sellers of equity capital markets deals, particularly of large, liquid block trades, are set to stay away from the market, given the damage done to their holdings.
  • HSBC and Standard Chartered are expecting lower profits and higher loan impairments this year due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak and an economic downturn in Hong Kong.
  • Chinese travel services provider Trip.com Group is seeking a $1.2bn loan at a time when markets are reeling from the rapid spread of the coronavirus outside the mainland and companies are assessing the impact of the epidemic on their businesses. Despite difficult market conditions, the borrower has received plenty of interest for the deal. Pan Yue reports.