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		<title>Capital Markets Monitor 6.7</title>
		<link>http://middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/capital-markets-monitor-6-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asset prices are rising.  Investor sentiment is buoyant again.  The dark days of early March are a distant memory.  Companies are deleveraging, issuing records amount of new equity as risk appetite continues to increase.  Government inspired reflation makes it feel like the go-go days of 2006. On Friday, monthly non-farm payroll losses declined for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=546&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transactions in Focus</title>
		<link>http://middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/transactions-in-focus-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity Capital Markets took a bit of a breather after the frenetic pace of the prior three weeks.  35 offerings raised $3.4bn last week, bringing May’s totals to 127 Deals raising $62.5bn.  We expect the equity capital markets to remain open through June, but believe investors will increasingly be more selective and demand greater pricing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=542&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Markets Monitor &#8211; June 1st</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government&#8217;s confidence game continues to win believers.  Equity and credit markets ended May still on fire, with the rally sustained last week, and significant new issuance absorbed.  The S&#38;P 500 index posted its strongest three month gain (+25.0%) since June 1933.  The yield curve is the steepest in some time, with a record [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=536&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transactions in Focus &#8211; 5.26</title>
		<link>http://middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/transactions-in-focus-5-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transactions in Focus Equity capital markets are extremely robust with investors supporting issuance from companies large and small.  44 offerings raised $24.6bn last week with 19 of those transactions from companies with market caps below $1bn.  With so much activity, we will only review the IPOs and energy offerings in detail. With surging indices emboldening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=528&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Markets Monitor 5.26</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. capital markets remain the most robust in the world.  U.S. companies have raised $117.7 billion ($27.1 billion high-yield and $90.6 billion equity) across the high yield and equity markets in Q2 facilitating a deleveraging and extension of debt profiles.  This ongoing re-equitization is a natural and needed part of the healing process post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=524&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Past Capital Market Monitors</title>
		<link>http://middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/past-capital-market-monitors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May has been an extraordinary month for the capital markets as well as for my family with the arrival of our first child.  Please find attached the Capital Markets Monitors for the past few weeks. As always, you can submit a request to be added to the distribution list. Capital Markets Monitor 5.4.2009 Capital Markets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=515&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Markets &#8211; 4.27</title>
		<link>http://middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/credit-markets-427/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit Markets This week saw the leverage loan and high bond markets continue their Spring thaw.  We saw significant new issue activity in the bond market with 5 deals closing that totaled $2.43 billion.  We highlight in the Energy section one of those issues; Encore Acquisition Company’s $225 mm in senior subordinated Notes that are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=513&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Energy in Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy In Focus   This week we highlight a few notable financial developments in the energy sector; (i) the Encore Acquisition Corporation bond issue, (ii) 2009 year-to-date E&#38;P bond issuance, (iii) Rosetta Resources’ second lien loan amendment, and (iv) downstream asset valuations.   Encore Acquisition Corporation This week saw EAC price $225 mm of B [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=511&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equity Capital Markets Transactions in Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The equity capital markets continue to see significant deal activity.  Investors are supporting these issues as deals continue to price and trade well. This week saw several bought deals indicating investment banks are taking more risk. We still await the broader expansion of the current robust market to smaller less liquid issuers. We know of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemarketfinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786470&amp;post=507&amp;subd=middlemarketfinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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