By John Lee. WesternZagros Resources has announced the successful closing of its rights offering which expired on November 14, 2014. The Rights Offering, together with the equity backstop arrangement provided by the Company's largest shareholder, Crest Energy International LLC, generated CDN$200 million in gross proceeds to the Company which will be used to fund development […]
By John Lee. ShaMaran has announced that it will launch a CAD 75 million equity rights offering to its shareholders that is supported by a comprehensive equity support arrangement from major shareholders, Lorito Holdings, Zebra Holdings and Investments, and Lundin Petroleum B.V. (the 'Standby Purchasers'). The proceeds of this financing will augment the funding required […]
By Mark DeWeaver. In this old post from 2010, I considered the possibility that ISX share prices might fail to adjust completely for corporate actions. There didn’t seem to be much evidence for this but it was a bit hard to be sure. In those days, stocks would generally be suspended for a number of […]
By Mark DeWeaver. The ISX historically has tended to go down in the second half of the year. Last November, I argued that this may be due to the timing of capital increases. (See this post.) If this is the case, the recently announced new rules on share suspensions mean that the market will no […]
At the end of last month, the Iraq Securities Commission (ISC) announced new rules on stock suspensions. Effective September 1, trading is to recommence no more than four months after general assembly meetings when rights issues are announced and immediately otherwise. Pre-general assembly suspensions are limited to one week. This new schedule is a big […]
While in other markets stocks go ex-rights overnight, in Iraq things take a bit longer. Generally, trading is suspended prior to shareholders meetings at which rights and bonus issues will be voted on and does not resume for months afterwards. In the case of rights issues, the suspension will last until all the shares on […]
