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  • ACTIVITY IN the UK primary equity market is set to pick up sharply with a wide variety of IPOs due to be launched from a number of well known groups and relatively unfamiliar growth stocks over the coming weeks. Merrill Lynch has won the books to lead the IPO of shares in Morse Computers, a provider of technical software systems.
  • IS THERE A cloud of doom and gloom hanging over the architecturally tired HQ of Société Générale in the City of London? The exact address of the office is Primrose Street, but have all the petals fallen off and the bloom faded? Now that the bank has bought Paribas, is there a dark black cloud hovering overhead without a silver lining?
  • RECENT rallies in internet stock prices show there is more than enough life left in the sector to sustain current valuations and perhaps create a few more hot performers. But the huge swings experienced by many internet stocks, even market favourites, have left analysts increasingly worried that the long-predicted shake-out is becoming imminent.
  • CONFUSION reigned in the Euro-drachma market this week following the reopening of a BCI-led Italy step-down transaction by different lead managers just days after its launch. The highly unusual step -- which runs against IPMA recommendations that deals should not be increased by different lead managers before the payment date -- was taken with the full consent of BCI.
  • SOCIETE Générale and Paribas this week announced their intention to merge -- a move which the senior management of both firms believe reinforces the push to become one of the Europe's bulge bracket investment banks. Monday's announcement came as a surprise -- not least to many senior bankers at both firms. Paribas had been a rumoured merger or takeover target for a number of firms, but Société Générale had not been widely touted as a possible candidate.
  • Argentina Lead arranger BankAmerica Corp and arranger Barclays Bank (Miami) are in the market with a $200m 364 day L/C facility for Banco Rio de la Plata SA.
  • IN AN ATTEMPT to capitalise on improving investor sentiment towards Latin America, the United Mexican Sates will today (Friday) launch a $1bn 10 year Brady-linked global bond via Goldman Sachs. The innovative offering for the Ba2/BB rated sovereign will include warrants giving holders of Mexico's $19bn of outstanding Par and Discount Brady bonds the right to exchange their bonds for a new floating rate note due 2004 and a reopening of Mexico's 11.375% 2016 global fixed rate issue.
  • Egypt Responses are due in by the end of next week from the highly restricted bank group approached by overall global coordinator Chase Manhattan, along with Commercial International Bank and National Bank of Egypt, for the first phase of the project financing for the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (ECMS).