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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow Exchange, Russia’s largest bourse, is hoping to see over 20 initial public offerings (IPOs) this year, it said on Wednesday, in a market ruled by retail investors since the exodus of Western capital over the conflict in Ukraine. Russian companies raised only around 140 billion roubles ($1.6 billion) in nine IPOs
LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union’s 1.1 trillion euro ($1.19 trillion) real estate funds sector faces multiple risks related to leverage, valuations and liquidity, requiring “stepped up monitoring”, the bloc’s securities watchdog ESMA said on Tuesday. “ESMA confirms the risks posed by real estate (RE) funds, in a context of declining volumes of transactions and
By Una Galani, and Peter Thal Larsen DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – India could ease its heightened scrutiny of Chinese investments if the two countries’ border remains peaceful, a senior Indian official said in the first signal that the four-year-old curbs could be lifted. Border tensions, the biggest irritant to relations between the nuclear-armed Asian giants,
Oil attracts cautious buying from hedge funds: Kemp LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Portfolio investors purchased petroleum in the first full week of 2024, reversing sales the previous week and continuing the pattern of choppy trading that has continued since early December. Hedge funds and other money managers bought the equivalent of 54 million barrels
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were mixed Wednesday as traders took stock of the recent rally, and appeared to be waiting for more catalysts ahead of expected regulatory approval of exchange-traded funds that hold Bitcoin. Bitcoin has traded up 0.4% over the last 24 hours to $42,726. The largest cryptocurrency has largely traded in a range