Press Release Lagos, January 20, 2014 – Sterling Bank Plc (NSE: STERLNBANK/ Reuters: STERLNB.LG) –the ‘Bank’ – a full service National Commercial Bank concludes its rights issue with 103.3% subscription. The rights issue of 5,888,949,162 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each offered at N2.12 per share opened on June 24, […]
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Asia shares rally as China cools money rates, yen slips
Asian markets sprang higher on Tuesday as Japanese stocks rebounded and Chinese money rates eased, while the U.S. dollar got a fillip from a report the Federal Reserve would again trim its bond buying next week. A drop in the yen helped Tokyo’s Nikkei .N225 rally 1.5 percent and dragged […]
JPMorgan drops another China IPO amid ‘princeling’ probe: sources
It is the second time the U.S. bank has stepped aside from a Chinese IPO candidate while U.S. securities regulators look into whether JPMorgan violated federal laws in hiring the relatives of current or potential clients with the sole purpose of winning business from them. JPMorgan has ended its IPO […]

