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Online car marketplace Autohome has launched the roadshow for a secondary listing in Hong Kong. The float of new and existing stock could raise up to HK$7.6bn ($983.2m).

Blank cheque firm Magnum Opus Acquisition has set in motion a $200m New York Stock Exchange IPO, filing paperwork with the US regulator on Monday.

Tuya, an internet-of-things cloud platform provider, is eyeing around $100m from an IPO of American depositary shares (ADS).

A new special purpose acquisition company backed by Tidjane Thiam, the former CEO of Credit Suisse, has raised $300m from investors.

The sell-off in the US Treasury and equity markets intensified this week as hopes rose of faster economic growth which could lead the Federal Reserve to taper quantitative easing. But that did not stop Japanese telecoms company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp raising $8bn with its first dollar bond issue for nine years, amid a stampede for cheap funding.

Indian renewable energy company ReNew Power is planning to list on the Nasdaq in the US through an $8bn merger with a special purpose acquisition company (Spac).

L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (Spac), is planning a $250m IPO, according to a filing with the US regulator.

HSBC has shifted responsibility for its regional businesses and given chief financial officer Ewen Stevenson a broader remit, ahead of updating investors with results on Tuesday and amid its overhaul of operations.

This week in Keeping Tabs: how to transition the US economy off fossil fuels.

US corporate bond bankers have shrugged off concerns that the steepening of the US Treasury curve could spell problems for credit, after the 10 year yield closed at 1.29% on Wednesday and the 30 year broke though 2%.

South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang is set for a multi-billion-dollar New York IPO — the first US listing from the country for a decade. The deal structure could appeal to other Korean start-ups, bankers said this week. Jonathan Breen reports.

It is the year of the ox in China and for equity investors 2021 is the year of the bull. Stock buyers continue to be optimists despite the economic ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic and are convinced that the spread of vaccinations across the globe will soon kick-off a festival of consumer spending.