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...Poland and some other central European countries are refusing to sign the amended deal because they do not want to pay for cancelled doses, according to two of the people....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 1. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...He’s played a central role in some of Berkshire’s biggest takeovers, including PacifiCorp and Dominion Energy’s pipeline business....
...Arkhouse Management has launched a proxy fight to take control of the board after Macy’s rejected its unsolicited $5.8bn take-private offer....
...Is the resulting long-short portfolio one we would actually like to hold with our own money? Of course not!...
...Even so, the central government is treading lightly....
...However, the FDIC, which was left holding the assets after it seized control of the two banks, said the asset sales would be “gradual and orderly”....
...The company — a unit of China Resources, one of the 98 elite “central companies” under the direct control of Beijing — was able to issue six onshore bonds to raise Rmb10bn with coupon rates between 2.16...
...for investors to attain more control over portfolio outcomes”....
...But commercial property owners are now having to battle a sharp increase in borrowing costs as central banks raise rates to combat inflation....
...Together the pair control more than 60 per cent of a US ETF market that has increased almost fivefold to $6.6tn from $1.35tn a decade ago....
...Economists and central bankers spent considerable time using letters to help the public understand what might lie ahead. In the end, the V prevailed....
...the decade of artificially floored interest rates and massive central bank injections of liquidity....
...As a precaution, the FT portfolio had 35 per cent in total in cash and short-dated index-linked Treasury bonds, with cash as the largest holding....
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...Wait too long and inflation could go out of control....
...EU countries had the chance to receive pro rata consignments of all vaccines ordered by the bloc under a central procurement scheme overseen by Brussels, but some chose to weight their portfolios on certain...
...Katie Martin comments that if central banks and regulators assume control, it will probably bite a chunk out of the value of cryptocurrencies and leave some holders with substantial losses....
...“I just wonder whether America is really ready for Vanguard and BlackRock to control the New York Stock Exchange, because that’s what’s happening,” he added....
...It comes as the European Central Bank is facing pressure to deal with environmental threats....
...This has helped the team keep pace with the transformation of Nestlé’s product portfolio as part of its push to become more sustainable....
...In the last quarter of 2020, more guests stayed in Sicily than in Florence and Venice combined, according to Airbnb; and more stayed in Devon than in Oxford and Cambridge combined....
...“Bitcoin is emerging from the shadows, being co-opted by establishment institutions and becoming a legitimate alternative asset for investment portfolios.”...
...This is not going to be an easy or V-shaped recovery. It will be another year of tensions between the US and China, with the EU drawn more into supporting the US....
...Key questions in the next few months for investors include whether the Fed will reassert control over the market narrative; will new sources of market inflows materialise?...
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