CashNews.co Finally, slowly, interest rates are set to fall — probably to between 4 and 4.75 per cent in the UK and the US. That’s refocused investors’ attention on rate-sensitive sectors. And, since they are built on mountains of debt, you don’t get much more rate-sensitive than real estate investment trusts, or Reits, companies that […]
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian pig farmers have warned swine fever is threatening the country’s €8.2bn prosciutto, sausage and pork delicacies industry and their own livelihoods, as Giorgia Meloni’s government battles to stamp out the country’s worst outbreak […]
CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. What a few weeks it’s been for Baiyu Holdings — the Delaware incorporated, Nasdaq-listed microlending-business-turned-used-luxury-car-leaser-turned-metals-trader with offices in Shenzhen, China. On Tuesday and Thursday we wrote about how WhatsApp pig-butchering had helped push the […]
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In these turbulent times in global markets, UK stocks are falling back on their secret weapon: being boring. This is a plus when investors are in the throes of a big rethink over high-growth […]
CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial & markets regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Morgan Stanley is paying $2mn to settle allegations that it failed to ensure trades it completed for a former top executive of First Republic Bank in the run-up to the bank’s collapse […]
CashNews.co Top Federal Reserve officials have left the door open to half-point interest rate cuts, even as they signalled the US central bank would move cautiously at its meeting this month following a mixed jobs report on Friday. In appearances on Friday, governor Christopher Waller and president John Williams of the New York Fed endorsed […]
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Chinese owner of British Steel is preparing to bring forward plans to close its blast furnaces in Lincolnshire as talks with the government over a £500mn state aid package to move to greener […]
CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK pensions minister has said boosting the amount of retirement savings invested domestically and improving returns for retirees must come before any increase in the proportion of wages automatically put into pensions. Emma […]
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CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the years, I had several grim meetings with management at the now defunct Uniq dairy food company. We should have been talking about cream cakes. Instead, most of the meetings seemed to be […]