Capital markets news | Tue 27 Oct 2026
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AI meltdown
Capital is not the only bottleneck; electricity, grid connections, transformers, and construction capacity may delay projects. Announced capacity can therefore be financially committed but physically unavailable for years, making future revenue backlogs less reliable.
Equity
- PublicInvest values ACE Market-bound SKA Capital at 63% premium over IPO price Edge
- Engineering services firm MyDCD launches ACE Market IPO at 56 sen Edge NST Star
- Indonesia strengthens measures against stock manipulation after market rout Edge
- Indonesia lets listed firms buy back shares without shareholder approval Mail NST Star
- In China, the AI bubble has already burst Edge
- Jio’s record India IPO falls short of record payday for bankers Edge
- Apollo deepens Abu Dhabi ties with investment in Mubadala Capital Reuters
- Anthropic flags ‘existential risks’ in long-awaited IPO filing Edge CD CT Yahoo
- Anthropic: The 5 most important things investors need to know from its IPO filing Yahoo
- 5 unexpected risk factors Anthropic is worried about Yahoo
- Anthropic’s soaring sales, steep losses put AI frenzy to IPO test Reuters
- Aspen Neuroscience, Bambusa Therapeutics launch US IPOs in biotech boom Reuters
- Obesity drug developer Corxel to go public in US via SPAC deal Reuters
- From filing to first trade: Inside the US IPO process Reuters
- Meta seeks up to USD95b in equity to fund AI spending Edge Yahoo Reuters
- CoreWeave rout sends warning sign to rest of stock market Edge
- The markets are starting to act seriously weird. Blame AI Yahoo
- Applied Materials to raise BESI stake to about 20% Reuters
Debt
- Solarvest’s sukuk AA3 rating affirmed RAM
- AmanahRaya’s Zetrix exposure monitored for potential liquidity implications RAM
- Kesturi’s proposed sukuk assigned preliminary AA- rating MARC
- Kedah’s sub-sovereign AA- rating affirmed MARC
- RHB Asset Management launches 3-year global bond fund NST
- Financing and grid readiness key to accelerating energy transition Edge
- Malaysia’s ‘green’ test: Billions pledged, too few bankable NST
- Maybank, DBS, World Bank develop financing framework for RE project Edge NST Star
- Exim Bank to channel over RM1b into 2027 Budget export drive NST
- Food-delivery firm Meituan aims to raise USD1b in bond sale Edge
- Asia-focused banks face capital squeeze due to inflation, bond turbulence Reuters
- Broadcom secures USD63b from banks to finance compute sales to Anthropic Yahoo Reuters
- SpaceX agrees to USD40b chip-financing deal with Apollo Edge CD Yahoo Reuters
- Nebius CEO admits neocloud financing has tightened Yahoo
- Tech companies tap debt, equity to fund AI and cloud expansion Edge
- Euro zone firms find it harder to get credit, ECB survey shows Edge
Digital assets
- Hong Kong names Nasdaq-listed Solana Company a strategic enterprise CT
- South Korea weighs fourth delay on its crypto gains tax, pushing it to 2029 CD CT
- OCC calls on community banks to enter the stablecoin payments market CD CT
- Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint says it’s not rushing retail stablecoin CT
M&A
- Berjaya Property raises Manjaran stake to 49% by buying Citaglobal’s stake Edge NST Star
- Edelteq buys into factory automation firm to expand earnings base Edge NST
- Menara Pacific Place in Leboh Ampang sold Edge
- SSF Home buys 13-acre industrial land in Pulau Indah for RM42.5m Edge Star
- Challenger rejects Daiichi Life’s USD4.4b takeover offer Edge
- EQT to buy Range Resources, creating largest US gas producer Edge Reuters
- DoorDash in exclusive talks to acquire Instacart Reuters
- Universal Music Group discussed going private with buyout firms Reuters
- Ray-Ban heir weighs bid for owner of Italy’s Fatto newspaper Edge
- Unconventional AI buys chip startup NeuReality to speed product development Reuters
- Egypt signs financing agreement on USD650m solar project in Upper Egypt Reuters
Malaysia
- BNM extends electronic trading platform approvals to 5 years Edge Star
- SoftBank’s Son plans USD50b Malaysia tech outlay Edge
- USD50b AI investment: Tanjung Embang identified as strategic location Edge
- Moody’s sees Malaysia as key regional data centre hub if edge maintained Mail NST Star
- Malaysia faces RM176b power investment bill to fuel data centre boom NST
- TNB, Petronas-backed regional power project gets Singapore’s approval NST Star
- Govt to decide on nuclear power plant after 4 key studies Edge
- Net disposable income approach to aid eligibility assessment from 2027 Edge
- Malaysia among South-east Asian economies facing El Nino crop, power risks Mail
- Bankruptcy discharge to take less than 36 days in 2027 Edge
Other markets
- Singapore to expand power capacity by 26% in early 2030s NST
- Thailand imports surge at record pace on AI, energy demand Edge
- Vietnam’s first chip plant unlikely in 2027 as sources say no deal yet with ASML Edge
- Chinese copper titan He Jinbi jailed for life over Maike fraud Edge
- RBA warns retirement wave will test Australian pension funds Edge
- AI gloom revives the specter of stagflation Edge
- Musk warns over 200 AI neoclouds face ‘guppy-level death’ CT Yahoo
- AI billionaires poised to unleash USD100b philanthropy wave, but who benefits? Mail
- US, Canada working on deal to ease steel, auto tariffs Reuters
- Germany’s business outlook in Oct unexpectedly improves for sixth month Edge