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He said a rights issue was "more value creative" and respected UK shareholders' preemption rights.

He said in an interview that 'I have always been a follower of HSBC, ' but is still weighing the rights issue.

The group hopes to avoid a rights issue, but was forced to admit last week that it had not ruled it out.

Last month it had to launch an $828 million rights issue to help fund the bridging loan it needed for the deal.

Unless the price is extraordinarily high, it is hard to see why Rio would prefer this to a rights issue, however arduous.

However, the Swiss bank's share price soared after it confirmed it had secured underwriting for a SFr15 billion ($15 billion) rights issue.

But a growing number of investors questioned the price paid and balked at the size of the $21bn rights issue to finance the takeover.

Involvement in the activities of the WHO 'isn't just a political issue, it's a human rights issue, ' Ma said.

Shareholders wanted the company to launch a smaller rights issue to help pay the debt.

It was at 11. 57% at the end of the third quarter before the bank embarked on its rights issue and bond sale.

Meanwhile Lakshmi Mittal, chairman and chief executive and with a 45 per cent stake, might prefer not to fund a rights issue.

Over the next three years, the Belgian government has committed to subscribe to a tentative rights issue of as much as 2 billion euros.

But the more sentiment improves, the more latitude the company has to explore some combination of a rights issue and asset sales.

In two weeks the Human Rights Council will make a decision on whether to legally recognize water and sanitation as a human rights issue.

The group's shares have been hit by market expectations that it will be forced into a rights issue.

Getting away a rights issue, while possibly painful to Mr Albanese's pride, would not be a problem.

It drew up plans for a rights issue that would raise close to $10bn, as well as for the $20bn Chinalco option.

It looks therefore as if investors will back the rights issue.

According to a report from Citi, the rights issue should lift the bank's core capital above 8%.

Equal access to a high-quality education may be the defining civil rights issue and economic challenge of our time.

Britain's Premier Foods, for instance, is planning a rights issue in exchange for banks loosening the terms of its debt covenants.

Last week Rio said that it was considering a rights issue, but that would doubtless need to be deeply discounted.

If at least 75% of them approve, the Pru will conduct a $21 billion rights issue that month, with the deal closing later this year.

The idea of a rights issue has not disappeared with brokers fuelling the debate about Rio's future.

However, Mr Leng had misgivings about the Chinalco deal and was arguing that a rights issue was the best option.

The discussion of many heated issues regarding life ethics touches upon the human rights issue.

The human rights issue is a very sensitive and controversial topic in contemporary international relations.

It would likely opt for a rights issue rather than its complex $19. 5 billion deal with Chinalco, a Chinese state-controlled company.

Mr Xiong said Chinalco had not yet decided whether to participate in Rio's planned rights issue.

The right to marry clearly isn't the most urgent civil rights issue lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (L. G. B. T. ) people face.

Stung, Rio backed off, opting instead for a $15. 2 billion rights issue and a joint venture with BHP Billiton (BHP).

It is wondering whether to take an investment from Chinalco, China's state-controlled aluminium firm, in place of a rights issue.

The deal was discussed at a fraught board meeting on February 3, at which Mr Leng made his objections clear and argued for a rights issue.

"While a $10bn rights issue would be significant, we believe that it will garner support, " he added.

The issue of persons with disabilities is both a human rights issue and a social development issue.

He advocated a rights issue rather than the mix of asset-stake sales and a convertible bond issue offered to Chinalco.

The chief architect of Baidu has claimed in a blog Google's decision to quit was for financial reasons rather than a human rights issue.

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"We probably could have raised $10bn or thereabouts from a rights issue, but I don't think we could have raised $20bn, " Mr Skinner said.

But if democratic governments choose not to raise concerns, the human rights issue will be hidden, she indicated.

HSBC's recent rights issue shows that some banks may be able to.

In a rights issue, a firm seeks extra funds from its investors in proportion to their current shareholding.

In a rights issue, shareholders are granted the right to buy more shares at a set price, often a discount to the current price.

An HSBC spokesman declined to comment, saying the bank didn't want to prejudice the rights issue offer.

One potential option might be a rights issue that could raise between $3bn-$5bn.

The film is a cinematic pamphlet about a civil rights issue that's far from resolved.

Would Prudential get the 75 per cent approval it needs to proceed with its rights issue, and thus the acquisition of AIA?

Angang's proposed rights issue will be massively dilutive and bulked-up coffers will encourage spending, possibly on further acquisitions.

Mr Skinner and Mr Albanese faced two options for raising cash: launch a massive rights issue or strike a deal with Chinalco.

Instead, Rio chose a rights issue and iron-ore joint venture with Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton Ltd. to pay down its debt.

Xstrata, another highly indebted miner, announced a heavily discounted rights issue last Thursday.

Human rights issue, including human rights of women, has aroused general concern in the international community.

"It also gives them the option to walk away for a break fee and do a rights issue instead. "

The human rights issue has been an very old subject in which we have been spared many efforts in order to explore the process of this issue.

Instead, Areva executives say they would like to obtain the government green light to raise cash through a rights issue.

First, he persuaded banks to give KPN some breathing space and convinced shareholders to back a rights issue.

HSBC cut its dividend alongside its rights issue, while in the US, PNC Financial and International Paper also cut pay-outs.

It saddled Rio with huge debts, and dragged it into a $15. 2bn rescue rights issue.

Prudential has announced a $20 billion rights issue to finance the deal, the largest ever for the London stockmarket.

All Saints Episcopal Church welcomes homosexuals and calls same-sex marriage a civil rights issue.

UK institutional investors are furious they were not offered the chance to participate in a rights issue.

HSBC, gored by its US consumer finance business, meanwhile rose $17. 8bn in an elephantine rights issue in April.

The UK company unexpectedly delayed its planned $21bn rights issue and interim management statement.

Bank of Communications, part-owned by HSBC, slashed its planned rights issue by a fifth to under $5bn.

Shares dropped sharply on news of TPG's exit in early trading on Friday, to hover just above the rights-issue price of 55 pence per share.

They should then either underwrite a rights issue or purchase preference shares.

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China appreciates Colombia's support on the Taiwan question and human rights issue.

HSBC confirmed that it would raise new capital through a £ 12. 5 billion ($17. 7 billion) rights issue.

The amount of proposed rights issue is larger than market expectations, which would cause 18% dilution effect and raise CAR by 2 ppts.

Glencore agreed to sell this asset to Xstrata for $2bn in January to take up its share of Xstrata's rights issue.

The government would subscribe for shares as part of the rights issue, and may subscribe for some debt issues.

China Merchants Bank Co. has already announced plans for a $3. 2 billion rights issue, which is awaiting shareholder approval.

And they misjudged shareholders' appetite for a giant, $21 billion rights issue to fund the takeover.

If they offer less value, they must instead demand the rights issue Mr Leng so wanted.

The details of the rights issue will be announced this week.

After an $18 billion rights issue in 2009 it has landed on its feet.

"Child Soldiering Is a Human Rights Issue. "

SVG, the quoted fund of funds, has launched a rescue rights issue to prevent it defaulting.

Shareholders are arguing that a rights issue would be a better way to solve the financial problems stemming from Rio's $39bn net debt.

That, plus last year's $15bn rights issue and a series of targeted disposals, allowed Rio to cut its debt from $39bn a year ago to $12bn.

Rio says it could have raised $10bn from a rights issue.

British bank HSBC Holdings this week raised $18. 6 billion in a rights issue.

It will then back a $500m rights issue which MBIA expects to complete early next year.

The property investor Shaftesbury also announced a rights issue to buy discounted properties.

Human rights issue is a very complicated issue drawing more and more attention from the international community.

It's often said that education is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

3i shares hit a record low in late-January on fears it may be forced to shore up its finances through a rights issue or cheap asset sales.

The circulation in the mining rights issue, but also by severe restrictions on the initial transfer to allow conditional transfer.

A bog-standard rights issue of $10bn would pay this year's bills.

Its ratio of equity to tier-one capital will rise from 7% to 8. 5% if the rights issue is completed.

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It is becoming, especially in America, a civil rights issue.

In some European markets it can take six weeks to complete a rights issue.

Xstrata's founding 35% shareholder Glencore, a privately held trading firm, lacks the cash to take part in the $5. 9 billion rights issue.

There are rumours that Asia's large sovereign-wealth funds might take part in the rights issue.

Glencore had sold the mine to Xstrata last year for $2 billion, to raise the funds to participate in Xstrata's rights issue.

Last year, Chinalco took up its full rights entitlement in a big Rio rights issue, spending another $1. 5 billion.

The proposal met opposition from Rio shareholders as it ignored pre-emption rights and was abandoned in favour of a rights issue

Hong Kong listing could encourage some Asian investors to buy into the Pru ahead of its rights issue.

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As such, the rights issue looks like classic bubble opportunism