61. The banks have more money from the share issues. 62. The company therefore decided to discontinue the B share issue. 63. The directors did not recommend the payment of a final dividend but recommended a bonus share issue. 64. The company believes it will achieve pricing which better represents the value of its assets by delaying the B share issue until later in the year. 65. The call for less prohibitive interest rates has gone unheeded as banks are busy shoring up their positions through new share issues for foreign buyers. 66. The company will decide the number, price and date of the share issue after its eight-month earnings report in October. 67. The current economic downturn might also make it harder for Diageo to arrange a successful share issue. 68. The IMF also should not view the completion of the Bangkok Bank and Thai Farmers Bank share issues as the end of the Thai credit crunch. 69. The H-share company, only listed last year, was the best-subscribed share issue in the history of the local stock exchange. 70. The share issue was smaller than expected because it is targeted only to the domestic market, officials said. |