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
(Reuters) – U.S. investors continued to reduce their holdings in equity funds for the fourth consecutive week up to Jan. 24, exhibiting caution ahead of a major inflation report and a Federal Reserve meeting set for the following week. U.S. equity funds saw net withdrawals of $3.04 billion in the week, the smallest in four
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday said it is widening the uses for commercial property lending by banks in its latest effort to ease a liquidity crunch facing troubled real estate firms. According to a notice jointly issued by the central bank and the financial regulator, by the end of this year banks will be