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...“All of that then leads you to a view of net zero happening later,” Grant Dougans, a partner at Bain, told Energy Source....
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...The US two-year yield has risen 37 basis points in the past two months, and more are talking about the possibility of zero Fed cuts this year....
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...The new bond pays a lower coupon than a previous convertible that it issued in 2020, when interest rates were close to zero....
...The chances that public regulators will be able to keep up are virtually zero. “We don’t have much control over what will happen, and are never likely to,” says Cowen. So we should embrace it....
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...If the offspring of the ideas can be made the company’s exclusive property (with a patent, say), the result is a valuable product that has a zero or near-zero incremental cost....
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...Purists might object to this description: if things were quite so simple, a PIK would be the same as a zero-coupon bond. And yes, they’d be right. A PIK note tends to give the issuer options....
...“The probability that this goes to zero is way less, particularly after the SEC approving these ETFs, which takes away some of the downside risk,” he said....
...Shein has gone from near zero to holding nearly a fifth of the global fast-fashion market, including the largest share in the US in less than four years....
...Visa and Mastercard’s marginal costs are practically zero. Operating margins averaged 62 per cent in 2022. The networks’ strength could be their Achilles heel. They rely on physical payment cards....
...Interest rates are unlikely to return to near zero levels soon. Many borrowers have already locked in ultra-low-rate mortgages....
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...The reason we had a mini banking crisis last March is a sudden and sharp increase in rates after years of them hovering near zero....
...Few food and agriculture companies state how much their net zero goals depend on using land as a carbon sink....
...Eventually, they would tire of holding cumbersome, zero-interest cash, and put it to use. Velocity would rise again. And in the 1960s and 1970s, several measures of velocity did indeed look stable....
...Big money managers who have made vocal pledges to hit net zero emissions risk looking like hypocrites amid a “catastrophic” decline in support for shareholder resolutions on climate change and social issues...
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