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...“Moving from freezing the assets, to confiscating them, to disposing of them is something that needs to be looked at very carefully,” Lagarde said, warning it could entail “breaking the international order...
...UK authorities have not made clear how they will deal with the seized bitcoin....
...Funds that equal weight the S&P 500 index — buying the same amount of every stock irrespective of its size — saw record inflows last year, even though this approach hit investors in the pocket as the tech...
...There has been 338 GWh of new US battery manufacturing capacity announced this year alone, according to data from S&P Global Commodity Insights, more than the past four years combined....
...In the six years to 2019, 59 per cent of the $91bn of net new money European exchange traded fund investors pumped into US equities went into vehicles tracking the S&P 500, according to data from Invesco...
...Hedge funds were pulling their balances from Morgan Stanley at an alarming rate, funding markets seized up and the value of the bank’s trading assets plummeted....
...The S&P 500 index fund returned 8.5 per cent annually after a decade, while the hedge funds only gained 3 per cent per annum....
...By the end of the day, the Amsterdam-listed shares in the closed-end fund – whose holdings reflect those of Mr Ackman’s main US hedge fund – had settled at a 9.9 per cent discount to their net asset value...
...(Financial Times) Yellen “began building the case for more regulation of the short-term credit markets that seized up during the financial crisis. Ms....
...and central bank dominance of the markets, executives told investors on Thursday that the multi-strategy Pine River Fund, the hedge fund group founded by Brian Taylor which has $4.5bn under management,...
...) at 5,446 US markets S&P 500 up +28.18 (+1.53%) at 1,874 DJIA up +227.85 (+1.41%) at 16,396 Nasdaq up +74.67 (+1.75%) at 4,352 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +26.59 (+2.02%) at 1,345 FTSE100 up +115.42...
...But the S&P 500 finally cracked it on Thursday following comforting comments from Janet Yellen, US Federal Reserve chairwoman. (Financial Times)...
...With the hryvnia currency in freefall and concerns about the low level of foreign currency reserves growing, Arseny Yatseniuk said the country urgently needed loans from the International Monetary Fund,...
...(Financial Times) “Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at the...
...FTSE 300 Eurotop up +1.60% at 1,148 Americas DJIA up +0.69% at 14,760 S&P 500 up +0.95% at 1,588 Bovespa up +2.02% at 46,893 Asia Nikkei 225 down -1.04% at 12,834 Topix down -0.87% at 1,069 Hang Seng...
...at 1,157 Americas DJIA down -0.56% at 14,537 S&P 500 down -0.67% at 1,542 Bovespa up +0.54% at 53,166 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.73% at 13,316 Topix up +0.33% at 1,127 Hang Seng up +2.33% at 22,014 Shanghai...
...to restructure finances and repair balance sheets, JPMorgan’s country head has said. http://on.ft.com/YCOhV0 Israel to resume tax funds to Palestinians Israel said it would resume the transfer of tax funds...
...S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.02% at 5,900 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 82.60 (82.47) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.27 at 108.28 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.06 at 85.79 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +3.40...
...Tycoon takes on Regus with £65m offer * AB InBev offers Modelo deal concessions Markets: mixed Sebi orders seizure of Sahara arms’ assets Two subsidiaries of Sahara India Pariwar face having their assets seized...
...down -0.35% at 433.57 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -1.01% at 5,574 Currencies €/$ 1.27 (1.28) $/¥ 81.10 (81.14) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.11 at 108.12 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.21 at 85.24 100...
...BP is also paying a further $525m for civil fraud charges brought by the SEC, and will still face civil claims from the US government....
...(82.85) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.01 at 125.64 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.29 at 107.32 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +4.30 at 1,690...
...+0.90% at 728.61 Hang Seng up +2.05% at 18,813 Shanghai Composite up +1.19% at 2,199 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +1.76% at 465.85 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +1.77% at 4,719 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.29) $/¥ 76.80 (76.85...
...Led by Japan’s $3 trillion and the U.S.’s $2.8 trillion, the amount coming due for the Group of Seven nations and Brazil, Russia, India and China is up from $7.4 trillion at this time last year, according...
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