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...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...Balls said his preferred places to have exposure to bonds more sensitive to changes in interest rates were in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada....
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...She said the Biden administration had taken measures to lower prescription drugs costs, stop big companies from imposing excessive fees on customers, and expand housing supply....
...Second, auto-insurance prices — our favourite CPI component from the past year! — has also been more muted in the PCE, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge....
...Biden has been hoping the economy will help him overtake Trump ahead of November’s vote, but borrowing costs are still at a 23-year high....
...insurers were “more vulnerable” to a credit downturn, due to their higher proportion of illiquid assets, and has previously warned about potential “contagion” seeping into the wider financial sector and economy...
...Ireland’s GDP, however, is distorted by global companies based in the country....
...Confused.com, on whose platform the index of quotes is based, said it was a “bleak time for drivers and their car insurance”....
...Expanding the Tideway approach could “open up more investment by insurers, to other sectors of the economy”, it said....
...Meanwhile the cash will stay in the company....
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...Some Tory MPs would have preferred Hunt to focus on more “retail-friendly” cuts to income tax....
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...Reinsurers, including Lloyd’s companies, are expected to bear the brunt....
...Alas, the preferred UK model for delivering CBDC through payment interface providers makes erecting such safeguards difficult....
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
...Policymakers who see the Chips Act as an insurance policy against geopolitical shocks believe it is already paying dividends....
...America’s home insurance crisis: Rana Foroohar uses her own experience to explain the difficulties of finding affordable home insurance in the US....
...Month-on-month core PCE, the Fed’s preferred gauge of underlying inflation, also rose between January and December. Markets have trimmed their expectations of Fed cuts this year....
...Economic data: The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation is updated today....
...Rolling-stock leasing companies, or Roscos — which are owned by financial investors — were set up to supply new trains to the UK railway following privatisation in the 1990s, and have proved highly profitable...
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