GLOBAL MARKETS: Cometh the taxman
No sooner had US President Joe Biden’s $1.9-trillion stimulus package passed than attention turned to his big spending bill for infrastructure — and the tax ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: Archegos fallout
The biggest counterparties of Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital — including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — tried to limit fallout from his collapsing bets on ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: Travelling blues
Shares in European airlines and other travel companies slid again last week as rising coronavirus cases on the continent accelerated doubts over the region’s ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: The big switch
The $1.9-trillion US stimulus programme has added fuel to a powerful upheaval in global stocks, boosting shares in companies that were shunned during the ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: Va-va-va voom
Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family has continued its expansion into the luxury sector with the acquisition of a stake in French luxury shoemaker Christian ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: Back on form
After years of underperformance, companies with a smaller market capitalisation are rising faster than bigger blue-chip names
GLOBAL MARKETS: Hot commodity
Tin prices have soared to a seven-year high after a manufacturing-driven buying frenzy that has drained physical stocks of the commodity
GLOBAL MARKETS: Mercedes-Benz’s electric dreams
Mercedes-Benz will earn as much from electric cars as it does from its luxury combustion engine models by the end of this decade, its CEO says
GLOBAL MARKETS: Borrower beware
The riskiest companies in the world are enjoying the benefits of the global hunt for higher returns, sending the yield on the dollar-denominated debt of some ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: Emerging markets back in favour
Investors have piled billions of dollars into emerging-market assets at the start of 2021 after a banner end to last year
GLOBAL MARKETS: The China phoenix
China’s GDP expanded 6.5% in the fourth quarter of 2020, a faster rate than before the pandemic and easily outpacing the expected performance of other big ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: In the crypt no more
A planned new US treasury rule aimed at stamping out illicit cryptocurrency transactions has drawn strong opposition from the industr
GLOBAL MARKETS: China rising
Despite a pandemic that began in China, 2020 has transformed into the year it all came together for the country’s capital markets
GLOBAL MARKETS: Ballad of a rich man
Universal Music has acquired Bob Dylan’s entire publishing catalogue in a nine-figure deal, the latest marker of the soaring valuation of music rights in the ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: Bewildering bitcoin
Bitcoin is set for a crucial few weeks to show whether its record-breaking rally this year marks a rerun of the cryptocurrency bubble that burst in 2017 or the ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: M&A resurgence
Positive news of a coronavirus vaccine and the conclusion of the US election have emboldened global dealmakers to revisit proposed mergers & acquisitions
GLOBAL MARKETS: Shot in the arm for markets
Global markets roared higher this week after Pfizer and BioNTech revealed a breakthrough in the race to find a Covid-19 vaccine
GLOBAL MARKETS: Lower interest rates for longer
Australia’s central bank has trimmed interest rates to near zero and ramped up its bond-buying plans in an attempt to help its eonomy recover
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