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APAC IB Fees Surge 19% in 2025: China & Singapore Drive M&A & ECM Boom

Asia Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

APAC ex-Japan investment banking fees rose 19...

Chinese firms dominated the league tables, wi...

Singapore fees jumped 28.9% to US$864.6 milli...

Equity and M&A fees surged alongside steady d...

North America PE Fundraising Hits Post-Pandemic Low: Mega-Funds Dominating, Emerging Managers Struggle

Americas Markets Other Investment Pools and Funds

North American private equity fundraising has...

Capital is increasingly concentrated in mega-...

Dry powder remains very high but is starting ...

The market is bifurcating, favoring scale whi...

Hedge Funds Eye Venezuela’s Oil Sector Amid Trump-Era Geopolitics

Americas Markets Oil and Gas Extraction

After the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and Tr...

Funds are buying distressed Venezuelan bonds ...

Likely early winners include firms already op...

The trade is high-risk, hinging on legal legi...

Hedge Funds Soar in 2025 Amid Weak Private Equity Fundraising

Global Markets Other Investment Pools and Funds

Hedge funds added about US$628bn in 2025, lif...

Average returns were roughly 12.8%, the best ...

Investor flows shifted away from private equi...

Big established managers such as Millennium, ...

Why Bloomberg Triggers Captcha Blocks: Key Causes & Cybersecurity Best Practices

Europe Markets Securities and Commodity Exchanges

Bloomberg blocks access with a PerimeterX CAP...

Common triggers include disabled JavaScript o...

Access is usually restored by passing the CAP...

The approach strengthens anti-scraping securi...

Australia’s Equity Markets Face Major Reforms: ASX’s Dominance Challenged

Asia Markets Securities and Commodity Exchanges

Australian equities are being reshaped by shr...

ASIC has approved Cboe Australia as a listing...

Regulators are forcing ASX governance and inf...

Market plumbing is changing too, with new ope...

Tech Cooling, Defense Rally & Why Profits Now Trump Promises in Market Rotation

Americas Markets Securities and Commodity Exchanges

U.S. stocks showed sharp sector rotation, wit...

Defense contractors jumped after a proposed $...

Megacap techs like Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft a...

Mixed data, including higher jobless claims a...

Private Equity’s Rise in GP-Stakes, Continuations & Secondaries Amid Exit Pressures

Global Markets Other Investment Pools and Funds

A Dechert/WSJ survey finds 77% of private-equ...

GP-stake deal volume hit $3.5 billion through...

With exits and LP distributions weak and GP c...

Secondary markets are at record scale (about ...

PE Funds Tighten Grip: LPs Rally Behind Large Managers Amid Distribution Strains

Americas Markets Other Investment Pools and Funds

Through September 30, 2025, the 10 largest US...

Mega-managers such as Advent, KKR, Thoma Brav...

LPs are concentrating commitments with establ...

The shift deepens a two-tier market that coul...

KeyBanc Sees Risk in Cleveland-Cliffs: Price Gains, Costs & Contracts in the SpotLight

Americas Markets Primary Metal Manufacturing

KeyBanc downgraded Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) to ...

The firm kept its $13 price target, implying ...

Key near-term risks include rising unit costs...

U.S. carbon steel fundamentals are expected t...