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  • Tehran Stock Exchange: IPO Of Mellat Insurance

    Date 09/07/2012

    On 9 July 2012, Mellat Insurance Company made an initial public offering (IPO) of 150 million shares (equivalent to 10 percent of its total equities). Shares were offered to the public at a price of IRR 1,321 (USD 0.108) each, with the total value of IRR 198 billion (USD 16.1 million).

  • Euroclear UK & Ireland Cuts Fees For Growing Fund Business

    Date 09/07/2012

    Euroclear UK & Ireland (EUI) has cut its investment fund order-routing fees for both high- and low-volume clients with immediate effect. The tariff for 10,000 or more orders per year has been cut by 9%, rising to a reduction of 33% for clients routing over 25,000 orders per year through the EMX Message System.

  • mergermarket H1 2012 UK M&A Round-Up

    Date 09/07/2012

    Summary Overview

    • UK M&A activity totalled £44.4bn in the first half of 2012, representing a 17.5% increase in deal value compared to H12011, and with £28.4bn this was the highest Q2 since Q2 2007 (£68.8bn).
    • Energy, Mining and Utilities was the most active sector valued at £14.3bn for 26 deals. This was a 55.7% increase in dealvalue compared to H1 2011. The jump is largely due to GDF Suez’ acquisition of International Power for £6.8bn.
    • Foreign investment into the UK accounted for 69.7% of all UK M&A in Q2 2012, valued at £19.8bn, and represented a 61%increase on Q1 2012. Inbound activity experienced its highest value in H1 2012 (£32.1bn) since the same period in 2008(£37.2bn).
    • Outbound M&A recorded the lowest H1 since H1 2009 (£10.3bn) at £17.4bn. Outbound deals for Q2 2012 however increased by 85.2% to £11.3bn from Q1 2012 (£6.1bn).
    • Having advised on three of the top five deals for H1 2012, Goldman Sachs retained its leading position advising on£26.9bn-worth of UK deals.
    • Clifford Chance jumped from ninth to first place in H1 2012 after advising on 37 deals worth £25.6bn including the top four deals of the first half of the year.

  • Platts: Petrochemical Prices Continue 2Q Declines On Lower Oil Prices

    Date 09/07/2012

    Continuing the decline begun in early second quarter, prices in the $3-trillion-plus global petrochemicals market fell in June to an average of $1,104 per metric ton (/mt) for the month. June’s average price is down $175 or 14% from the May average, according to the just-released monthly average of the Platts Global Petrochemical Index(PGPI), a benchmark basket of seven widely used petrochemicals.

  • Ljubljana Stock Exchange Statistical Report For First-Half Year 2012

    Date 09/07/2012

    Please click here to download the LJSE statistical report.