November 27, 2024

Category: Markets

Columbia Threadneedle closes standalone UK small stocks unit
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Columbia Threadneedle closes standalone UK small stocks unit #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Columbia Threadneedle Investments is shutting its standalone UK smaller companies division as investors pull money ahead of a UK Budget that could further undermine confidence in the ailing sector. The US fund group, which […]

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Learn from those missed investment opportunities
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Learn from those missed investment opportunities #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Most private investors are regulars at The Tavern of Missed Opportunities. This hostelry has a lower profile than The Last Chance Saloon. It has no permanent premises. Its bitter ale is served ad hoc. The bar staff are volunteers and come in many guises. There is the ex-colleague you run into who turns out […]

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Does Africa need its own credit rating agency?
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Does Africa need its own credit rating agency? #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Africa’s debt problems were high on the agenda at last week’s IMF-World Bank meetings. Around 20 low-income African nations are either bankrupt or at high risk of debt distress. And across the continent, high […]

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Pfizer’s guidance bump will not heal deeper wounds
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Pfizer’s guidance bump will not heal deeper wounds #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pfizer desperately needs ammunition in its fight against activist investor Starboard Value. Fortunately for chief executive Albert Bourla, it found some by way of better than expected third-quarter results. An unexpectedly large surge of […]

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How are investors preparing for the Budget?
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How are investors preparing for the Budget? #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Executives are selling shares, investors are adjusting their bond portfolios and some business owners even accelerating planned liquidations ahead of Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. People are taking steps to minimise their exposure to what could be the biggest tax-raising Budget in a generation, with chancellor Rachel Reeves set to map out plans […]

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Everyone hates the SEC’s bank bail-in take
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Everyone hates the SEC’s bank bail-in take #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A year ago FT Alphaville wrote about the Financial Stability Board’s Credit Suisse postmortem, and its almost-casual observation that the SEC believed the entire post-GFC global bank bail-in bonds regime might fall foul of […]

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