Capital Market Activity Surges Amid Verizon Debt Offering

A report on Brokers dated September 16, issued by analysts Doug Sipkin and Justin LaSalle-Tarantin of Susquehanna Financial Group, LLC, highlights strong capital market activity trends in the last week. Corporate Debt Indicative of better times for the brokerage space, global corporate debt floatation last week was $138B, including the mega-issue by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ). This just missed January’s record for this year by a whisker. Equity Issues Global equity issues moved from strength to strength notching up $16.5B last week, boosted by international activity. In the U.S., a lot of volume is expected this week with 10 IPOs…