Global equity issuance hits first-quarter record as stake sales jump
March 30, 2015 at 19:01 PM EDT
LONDON/HONG KONG, March 31 (Reuters) - Global equity issuance rose by a fifth to $231.5 billion in the three months through March, a record high for a first quarter, as a sharp rise in secondary share sales outweighed a drop in company flotations, Thomson Reuters data showed on Tuesday.