Vingroup, Vietnam's biggest listed company, is seeking to raise $500 million through its inaugural issue of international bonds this year to pay loans and pump up the capital of its subsidiaries, the company said.
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PARIS/BERLIN, April 1 (Reuters) - Germany will next week present a multi-billion-dollar proposal to Lebanese authorities to rebuild the Port of Beirut as part of efforts to entice the country’s politicians to form a government capable of warding off financial collapse, two sources said.
A chemical explosion at the port last August killed 200 people, injured thousands and destroyed entire neighbourhoods in Lebanon’s capital, plunging the country deeper into its worst political and economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
According to two diplomatic sources with knowledge of the plans, Germany and France are vying to lead reconstruction efforts. Berlin will on April 7 outline a proposal that the European Investment Bank has agreed to help fund that would clear the area and reconstruct facilities, they said.
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(Reuters) -Compass Inc, the U.S. real estate technology firm backed by SoftBank Group, said on Wednesday it sold shares in its initial public offering at $18 each, at the lower end of its downsized target range to raise $450 million.
Compass had previously set a price range of $18-$19 per share, downsized from its prior target at $23 to $26. At $18, a fully diluted valuation, which includes securities such as options and restricted stock, would be $9 billion, compared to $6.4 billion in its most recent private funding round in 2019.
The IPO is a sign of investor fatigue for new stocks, with companies already raising over $36 billion through U.S. IPOs this quarter, up more than 360% year on year, according to Refinitiv.
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Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt poses in front of the company’s logo in Tokyo, Japan, May 16, 2019.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - CANADIAN HOSPITALITY. Brookfield Asset Management is engaging in some self-serving generosity. On Thursday the Canadian property giant raised its bid to take private its listed commercial real estate arm, Brookfield Property Partners, offering minority shareholders $6.5 billion, or 10% more than January’s opening gambit.
Digging deeper is a Brookfield speciality. It similarly raised bids for GGP, Rouse Properties, Brookfield Office Properties and Canada Office Properties. This bump is bigger than usual, partly because Brookfield’s own shares have risen in the meantime. That’s despite the fact the group holds around 60% of BPP already. At Rouse and GGP it didn’t even have a majority stake.
Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc will buy the remaining stake in its commercial real estate business for about $6.5 billion, as it looks to rescue the pandemic-hit company that suffered massive declines in its property value.