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BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Friday Serbia had raised 1.75 bln dollars in a London Stock Exchange bond issue and that the funds would be invested in infrastructure.

According to data from the London Stock Exchange ICE, natural gas prices on the European market crossed the $3,000 mark for 1,000 cubic meters for the first time since the beginning of March.

On a day when Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange remained closed, the Greek bourse secured a rather satisfactory turnover of almost 50 million euros on Monday, with traders opting to position themselves ahead of this Friday's upcoming index rebalancing. Leading the benchmark to strong gains were bank stocks, which were oversold in previous sessions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market index that measures the stock performance of 30 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States, suffered its worst session since 1987 on March 12, plunging 10 percent as emergency measures by central banks failed to douse mounting recession fears due to the coronavirus.

Fondul Proprietatea, a closed-end fund managed by Franklin Templeton, is set to be listed on April 29 on the London Stock Exchange, LSE, in a move to attract new investors to Romania.

Fondul will pay some 4.2 million euro for its secondary listing on the Stoke Exchange, according to the listing prospectus.

Borsa Istanbul head ?brahim Turhan resigned from his position on Feb. 10 to become a candidate in the June parliamentary elections, although he had previously refuted the claims about his possible resignation.

There remains a lot of interest in Turkey among international investors, a London Stock Exchange official told Anadolu Agency on Jan. 16.

Borsa Istanbul, Turkey's main stock exchange, signed a deal on Jan. 13 allowing the London Stock Exchange to list futures and options based on the BIST 30 Index and on leading Turkish stocks. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

Three large European stock exchanges showed interest in the privatization of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), said former Vice PM Daniela Bobeva on Wednesday.

She did not say which were the candidates for the stock exchange.

Coca-Cola HBC (CCHBC), the world’s No 2 bottler of Coca-Cola Co drinks, plans to delist its shares held in American depositary receipts (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange next month, it said on Monday.

The Romanian government on Wednesday announced the launch of the sale of a 51-per-cent stake in the electricity distributor Electrica, from which it hopes to raise up to 1.95 billion lei (some 435 million euro).

The sale forms a major part of the Romania's privatisation strategy, which has been agreed with the International Monetary Fund, IMF.