Joseph A. Derringer

News updates from April 11: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76

Chinese consumer prices edge up in March amid sluggish demand

...index was 0.1 per cent higher year on year in March, according to official statistics released on Thursday, lower than the 0.7 per cent reading in February and below the 0.4 per cent increase forecast by a...

April 11, 2024

News in-depthForeign aid

Development funds dash for donor cash at World Bank and IMF meetings

...Global Development, a think-tank....

April 15, 2024

FT Live

Building a Personal Wealth Plan

Capitalising on market shifts and innovations in fintech

Ghana

Ghana’s debt restructuring deal falters after IMF rebuff

...Accra’s borrowing to a sustainable level....

April 15, 2024

News in-depthEgypt

Demand for Egyptian debt surges after $55bn bailout and investment package

...too risky only a few weeks ago....

April 16, 2024

Sovereign debt

Zambia agrees deal to restructure nearly $4bn of bonds

...“Prompt implementation of a debt restructuring agreement with bondholders is not only in Zambia’s interests, but the wider creditor community as a whole,” said a steering committee for the external bondholders...

March 25, 2024

FT Magazine

We just got a Michelin star. Now what?

...Lauren Joseph is a writer and chef at Dorian Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...

February 28, 2024

FT Live

Africa Summit

Africa in a complex world

Investments

BofA’s elephant in the room

...Joseph Wilkins is a funds correspondent at FTAdviser. Look at this graph....

February 2, 2024

Asset allocation

The quantitative ‘climate change’

...But it’s a helpful construct for analysis. If there is a trend in the five-factor portfolio performance, that should produce a corresponding trend in quant performance....

January 24, 2024

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe launches ‘gold-backed’ currency to replace collapsing dollar

...“Zimbabwe has less than a month of reserves, not enough to defend the structured currency,” said economist Tinashe Murapata. “A new currency every five years now seems the norm.”...

April 5, 2024

News updates from March 25: Boeing CEO to step down; UN Security Council calls for Gaza ceasefire

Zambia reaches revised bondholder deal and moves closer to exiting default

...Zambia’s official creditors including China have already signed up to debt relief, which made a private creditor deal the last hurdle to leaving a 2020 default behind....

March 25, 2024

News updates from March 5: China targets 5% GDP growth in 2024, Gold and Bitcoin hit record highs

Vivendi’s Canal+ raises offer for South Africa’s MultiChoice

...MultiChoice’s board will take independent advice in reviewing the R125 ($6.55) a share cash offer from Canal+, up from a R105 a share offer made in February....

March 5, 2024

International Development Association (IDA)

World Bank lender to poorest nations seeks record funding haul

...However, the bank has been cautious about moves that would lead to a downgrade of its rating....

March 17, 2024

Fund management

Franklin Templeton plans to take top-performing turnaround fund to new markets

...enjoying a windfall from outsized returns....

March 6, 2024

Zambia

Zambia’s $13bn debt stand-off an ‘indictment’ of global system, says president

...Zambia needs a debt resolution to continue a $1.3bn IMF bailout and revive financial flows back into the country....

March 20, 2024

The Henry Mance Interview

Joseph Nye: ‘You can coerce by economic means’

...For several decades, Joseph Nye has been one of the influential thinkers in international relations....

January 15, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Zambia

Zambia says it has signed debt restructuring deal with China and India

...China and India have signed agreements to restructure their holdings of Zambian debt, the bankrupt southern African nation’s president has said, raising hopes that a delayed effort to exit a long-running...

February 24, 2024

News updates from February 28: US Supreme Court will hear Trump presidential immunity appeal; Bitcoin breaks through $60,000

Canal+ told to bid for MultiChoice after ownership threshold crossed

...rejected a non-binding offer from Canal+ earlier in February to buy up the remaining stock in Netflix’s main African rival at R105 ($5.60) a share — which would have valued MultiChoice at $2.5bn — when the...

February 28, 2024

Sovereign bonds

New York moves to rewrite law on sovereign debt default recovery

...to a restructuring deal....

March 6, 2024

Namibia

Namibia’s veteran president Hage Geingob dies aged 82

...Namibia has sworn in a new president following the death of Hage Geingob, the sitting president and a veteran of the country’s independence struggle....

February 5, 2024

Venezuela

Venezuela to regain place on JPMorgan debt indices

...Creditors have been hoping that a forthcoming auction of shares in Citgo, a PDVSA-owned refiner in the US, will help pay off some of the oil company’s defaulted debt....

February 22, 2024

Kenya

Kenyan shilling soars after $1.5bn bond issue eases default fears

...Kenya’s shilling has posted its biggest one-day gain in more than 15 years, after the eastern African nation averted a feared default this year by selling new debt to ease a looming $2bn bond payment....

February 15, 2024

KKR & Co LP

KKR co-CEOs predict revival in global IPO and takeover activity

...Scott Nuttall and Joseph Bae, co-chief executives of the New York-based group, told the Financial Times they were seeing an improvement in activity to take portfolio companies public....

April 12, 2024

Enuma Okoro

Joseph and the value of ordinary lives

...In a chapel in the basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, there is a painting of Joseph in his carpentry workshop, with a young Jesus by his side....

December 22, 2023

Sovereign debt

Zambia raises hopes it will complete long-delayed debt restructuring

...Without a deal, the IMF could need to reassess its bailout deal....

February 7, 2024

Global inflation

China to export deflation to the world as economy stumbles

...But weak domestic demand as a result of China’s prolonged property bust and a weaker renminbi are leading investors to forecast that exports could be an especially powerful force this year....

February 8, 2024

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