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Investment banks sitting on lots of unsold stock

Heading into the holidays a number of Canadian investment dealers are sitting on a bunch of hung bought deals.

Timing is everything when launching a financing, and in the final few months of the year it looked like the window for new deals was wide open – in large part because retail investors appeared hungry for some new shares.