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SGX is eyeing first US dollar bond amid acquisition push

Bloomberg Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) is planning a maiden dollar bond offering, which would make it the latest entrant in a rush by Asian firms to lock in cheap borrowing costs. The city-state’s sole equities bourse hired banks for a potential US currency note and will hold investor calls from on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter, who ...

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Red-hot India market rally relying on fewer and fewer stocks

Bloomberg As India’s world-beating stock rally powers ahead, skeptics are pointing to lousy market breadth as a sign that further gains may be harder to come by. The NSE Nifty 200 Index has more than doubled from a March 2020 low — weathering alarming Covid-19 infection and death rates, strict lockdowns and slower economic growth — thanks to a massive ...

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Goldman Sachs, BofA see lost decades for emerging markets

Bloomberg Elevated commodity prices and expectations for earnings growth are igniting bullish bets on emerging-market equities after more than a decade of underperformance that left them approaching a 20-year low against developed-nation stocks. Goldman Sachs Group, Bank of America Corp (BofA) and Lazard Asset Management expect a boost for developing equities as investors capitalise on cheap valuations once vaccine rollouts ...

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