Capital markets news | Fri 22 Nov 2024
Equity
- Northern Solar’s ACE Market IPO underwritten by M&A Edge Star
- Bursa confident in next year’s growth with active IPO pipeline Edge
- Kioxia to receive listing approval today, market value at USD5b Edge
- Saylor-Buffett ratio at 3.49, US market in greed mode Yahoo
- Blackstone invests USD500m in Lancium AI buildout Star
- Swedish firm gets USD46m from Uniper, Samsung for clean fuel Star
Debt and money markets
- Edra Solar’s Asean sustainability SRI sukuk AA2 rating affirmed RAM
- Orkim’s RM1b sukuk programme assigned AA- preliminary rating MARC
- TNB Power Generation’s sukuk AAA rating affirmed MARC
- Tanjung Bin O&M’s sukuk AA- rating affirmed MARC
- Malakoff Power’s sukuk ratings affirmed MARC
- Bank Rakyat issues RM500m Asean sustainability SRI sukuk Star
- India’s Adani Green Energy withdraws planned dollar bond sale NST
- Aramco to take on more debt Edge
Digital assets
- Market activity grows 10-fold, user sign-up triples on bitcoin rally NST
- Luno launches tracker for crypto market performance Edge
- Bitcoin breaks USD96k for first time NST Star
- BitGo launches Singapore services, eyes other Asian countries Coindesk
- Record bitcoin run sees US ETF assets surge to over USD100b Edge
- SEC Chair will quit when Trump takes office Coindesk Cointelegraph
- Mastercard, JPMorgan bring cross-border payments on blockchain Coindesk
- Bitcoin futures smash through USD100k barrier on Deribit Coindesk
M&A and property
- Thong Guan sells F&B business to major shareholder for RM60m Edge Star
- Govt pays Atlan RM69.6m for Kedah land acquisition Edge
- Petronas takes over ExxonMobil’s 50% stake in Suriname block Edge
- Starbucks considers selling stake in Chinese business Edge Star
- US DOJ argues Google must divest Chrome Edge NST
Other financial market news
- Thailand seeks foreign investment as PM plans for Trump era Edge
- Philippines likely to hold off further rate cuts Star
- Southeast Asian energy sector focuses on reducing methane Edge
- Chipmakers need local manufacturing in China for competitive position Edge
- Corporate China seeks dollars as trade tensions rise Yahoo
- US charges Indian tycoon Adani with USD265m bribery scheme Edge Mail Star
- Australia to ban social media for under 16 Edge
- US existing-home sales rose in Oct after mortgage-rate drop Edge
- US weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fall Star
- French business’ election gloom casts long shadow over outlook Edge
- Sluggish European growth hits UBS Edge
- COP29 summit puts trillion-dollar climate financing on table Edge
- Different yardsticks for measuring GDP Star
