capital markets

The major developments at Macquarie, plus broker views, consensus ratings, and price targets, as well as the technical analysis outlook.

If investors haven't entirely turned off the tap, it has certainly been turned down to a trickle. The $US146 billion of equity capital raised globally in the March...

The pace of US IPO activity has shattered previous records.It is a clear sign of excess and market froth.The stampede into IPOs reflects (past) performance.Increasing...

The past few weeks have been quiet in capital markets. Deals are still being done but the sentiment certainly feels more subdued than the 20-raise-a-week days of...

We're covering two week's worth of raises in this edition. The week of the 7th September saw $477m of fresh equity issued across 21 transactions. Nearmap, PointsBet...

Just under $698m was raised this week across 23 placements. The largest among them were for IOOF ($452m) and Orocobre ($126m). There hasn't been as many rescue raises...

As the world grapples with COVID-19 and the worst economic downtown since the Great Depression, global stock markets surpass all-time highs. These conflicting...

Just over $280m of funding was raised this week for listed Aussie companies. Of the 24 raises that were completed, more than 70% of the capital went to Splitit (SPT) ,...

The week before last was one of the slowest of the year in capital markets, barely $100m was raised and the majority of volume was concentrated at the smaller end of...

The gold rush continues, and this week it took up most of the action. 19 of the 28 placements that closed were for small cap mining companies, almost all of these had...

It was a big week. A whopping 35 placements were closed, and a tad over $938m of fresh funds made its way through markets. There were two things on every investor and...

$235m was raised during the past week across 16 deals. Not a lot to sink our teeth into and a far-cry from what we saw when the COVID raising-spree began. The end of...

33 placements were completed this week, raising a total of $1.7b in fresh equity. The bulk of this was for Qantas, but a resurgence of small cap activity filled the...

Market volatility has been creeping up this month - new COVID cases, stimulus uncertainty and geo-political games are all to blame. Volatility and capital markets...

Investors have been spoilt for choice in recent weeks. The ASX200 raises have slowed down (for now) but there's still been plenty at the small/mid cap end for...

The recovery rally continues. There was quite a bit more for followers of capital markets to sink their teeth into this week. Just over $1.5b was raised across 30...

There was just over $706m raised via placement this week. This was across 29 raises, and with only one raise above $100m. Small cap raises have continued to increase...

It was all about miners this week in capital markets. Ongoing economic uncertainty continues to favour gold while oil/iron are not far behind in terms of popularity....

There was a distinct quietness in capital markets this week. $449m was raised via Placement a far cry from the $5.7b raised last week. One possible explanation is...

$5.7 billion of capital was raised this week across 33 placements, although it is worth noting that $3 billion of that tally is attributable to a single monster...