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Inert European markets drag global IPOs to three-year low

Fears about the health of the eurozone economy and ongoing wranglings over Brexit have spooked companies looking to raise equity

The value of initial public offerings on global exchanges has hit a three-year low, weighed down by a big drop in activity across Europe.

New figures from Refinitiv, the data provider, come at the start of the latest earnings season, in which the world’s biggest banks have shown the impact of the slump on their equity capital markets revenues.

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