Equity underwriters are looking ahead to the final months of this year with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Rarely have there been so many deals looking to be done in such a short time. According to Salomon Smith Barney’s calculations, by early September $48 billion of deals had been announced that issuers were hoping to complete by the end of the year. And that figure included only European issuers. The true volume of deals hanging over the markets will be quite a bit larger, including several billion dollars worth from Asia and other deals from Europe and elsewhere that are being worked on behind the scenes.
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