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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    Will 2025 be the year for plain vanilla ETFs or private assets?

    After healthy returns from US equities, investors are being warned the era could end, and unlisted securities could be the answer

    A Christmas tree outside the New York Stock Exchange at night
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    SSGA launches Saudi Arabia sovereign bond ETF in Europe

    Asset manager says growth of kingdom’s bond market has accelerated, driven in part by Vision 2030

    A Saudi trader with his back to the camera, with stock results projected on his back
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Corporate bonds
    Global corporate borrowing climbs to record $8tn in 2024

    Companies take advantage of huge investor demand to pull forward bond issuance originally planned for next year

    A pile of hundred dollar bills
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    ESG investing
    ESG funds found to have $1.4bn exposure to Xinjiang labour camps

    Ignites Asia analysis has tracked investments in companies such as CATL, the EV battery maker accused of Xinjiang links

  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Leveraged loans
    Defaults on leveraged loans soar to highest rate in 4 years

    Borrowers turn to distressed exchanges in the face of punitive interest rates

    The Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    The SEC’s distressed debt dragnet

    Two is a trend

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    News in-depthHPS Investment Partners LLC
    Why BlackRock is shelling out $12bn for private credit shop HPS

    World’s biggest fund manager seeks to elbow its way into industry dominated by the likes of Apollo and Blackstone

  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Record $600bn pours into global bond funds in 2024

    Investors piled into fixed income in bet on falling interest rates

  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Unilever PLC
    Unilever merges sustainability role after revising environmental goals

    Consumer goods giant which has scaled back some green targets is to combine position with other areas

    CEO Hein Schumacher
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    MicroStrategy’s ‘financial engineering’ powers ascent to Nasdaq 100

    Convertible bonds to fund bitcoin purchases have been lapped up by investors, but some fear impact if token falls sharply

    Michael Saylor, chairman of MicroStrategy
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Moral Money
    EU rule change highlights difficulty of defining ‘green’ Premium content

    Regulator changes tack after pushback on fund naming rules

    A blurred image of a visitor walking past a sign for the European Securities and Markets Authority
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    A fiscal fight is brewing in the court of Donald Trump

    America’s debt pile and the case for tax cuts will be flashpoints inside the new administration

    An elephant’s foot hovers over a tiny red Lego elephant
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    China’s short-term bond yields fall below 1% for first time since 2009

    Key level passed after 10-year debt breached 2% barrier as markets expect further monetary easing

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    US equities
    US long-term bond yields rise to highest level in six months

    Wall Street stocks steady after heaviest sell-off since August

    A trader works on the floor as news of the Federal Reserve rate cut decision shows on a TV at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Instant InsightKatie Martin
    Investors only have themselves to blame as Jay Powell steals Christmas

    The Fed chair’s apparent cooling on further interest rate cuts has gone down badly with markets

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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Gilts
    UK borrowing costs climb as ‘stagflation’ fear stalks gilt market

    Stubborn inflation and stalling growth have driven yields back to the highs reached after October’s Budget

    The City of London skyline
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Thames Water
    Thames Water rival bondholders face off in court hearing

    Troubled utility seeks approval for ‘urgent’ £3bn loan from its top-ranking lenders

    Campaigners against Thames Water outside the High Court
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Investors on alert for ructions in US funding market

    Some fear that Fed’s quantitative tightening programme could trigger liquidity crunch similar to 2019

    The Federal Reserve building in Washington DC
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    LexFinancial services
    Thought ESG was hard to define? Try its antithesis

    Investors who want to bet against progressive values have a few options, none straightforward

    US President-elect Donald Trump delivers a speech at Mar-a-Lago in Florida
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Private equity
    Blue Owl co-founder seeking multiway merger to form PE investment giant

    Billionaire dealmaker Michael Rees sounds out potential partners to assemble new firm in mould of Blackstone

    A montage of Michael Rees and the logo of Blue Owl Capital
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    French bonds under pressure following Moody’s downgrade

    Borrowing costs edge higher after rating agency warns political chaos will make it harder to cut budget deficit

    Office buildings in La Défense business district in Paris
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Italian politics
    Meloni races to finalise budget to affirm markets’ faith in Italy

    Investors’ optimism on coalition’s fiscal rectitude has lowered Rome’s cost of borrowing substantially

    Giorgia Meloni rests her head on her hand in the Italian parliament
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    France
    Moody’s downgrades France’s credit rating over political turmoil

    Agency’s warning of weakening public finances underlines challenges facing new prime minister François Bayrou

    Francois Bayrou
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Hertz Global Holdings Inc
    Hertz and the Big Rig

    The fix is in

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Thames Water
    Thames Water warns that rival bondholders’ plan risks nationalisation

    Junior bondholders are planning to challenge emergency £3bn loan in court next week

    A tanker is pictured at Thames Water’s Mogden sewage treatment works in Isleworth, west London
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