More follows from Singapore, China, and Hong Kong, and other places like Mexico, Britain, The Netherlands, S. Africa, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Finland.

Black box warning: The latest exchange-traded fund from Renaissance Capital aims to double up its initial public offering focus.

Abengoa reported flat revenues and net income for H1 vs 2013 H1, with sales at euros 3.4 bn and net income of euros 69 mn, up all of 2%.

The London gold fixing by a twice-daily process of “price discovery” was almost 100 years old when two New York University Stern Biz School professors revealed to the world that the benchmark setting the price of the yellow metal was manipulated.

While trading was up by volume by about 4% y-o-y, it rose 18% by value to $1.8 trillion, barely more than the new issues volume. Almost all the increase was in London where the most traded DR in the world has its home.

Eduardo Garcia writes that Fibra Uno, the Mexican REIT, is paying $90 mn to buy the Hilton Hotel in Mexico City's Centro Historico, of which $31 mn is the assumption of debt.