TRY TO BLAME the poor performance of a capital markets deal on the conjunction of phases of the moon and the path of the sun and you’ll probably be given short shrift. But lunar and solar behaviour have a huge bearing on sentiment in the debt capital markets at the beginning of every year because they are used to calculate the date of the Chinese New Year.
In 2004, Chinese New Year fell on January 22.
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