594,900,000,000 The global dollar value of equity capital raised in 2005. The figure is up 4% from 2004 and is the highest since 2000.
Despite the lower volume of equity capital market deals in the US in 2005, compared with Europe, the US equity capital market business remained the more profitable of the two. The volume of equity capital market deals in Europe rose 14% to $214 billion in 2005 but investment banks earned “just” $3.8
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