The European Equity Capital Markets have continued along their downward trend throughout the summer months and as autumn draws in, the unremitting volatility arising from Europe’s inability to put forward a viable solution to the debt crisis has brought deal volumes staggeringly low. August and September are cyclically less active months, however, year on year figures highlight them to be significantly less active months for 2011. From the 1st of August till the 30th of September there were a total of 26 deals that priced in Europe, raising just over the $2.1bn mark. In the same period in 2010 there were 5 more deals and these raised just over $7.1bn, a sizeable amount more than this current year.