March 28, 2024
Finance

Two years on, Ukraine’s economy has stabilised, but Western finance firms are finding their Russia exit tricky

Two years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and global finance firms are still feeling the impact of the fallout, with many still scrambling to untangle their businesses from the region. The outlook for international finance giants in Russia remains on a knife-edge, as the country continues to face a host of challenges. These range

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Investors

Here’s what investors expect as Indonesia goes to the polls

Indonesia will go the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president to replace Joko Widodo. The vote’s importance should not be underestimated. Covering 17,000 islands across South East Asia and Oceania — including Java and Sumatra — the republic has important geopolitical and global economic clout.  With about 280 million inhabitants, encompassing an estimated

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Finance

Politicians must give ‘full-throated support’ to finance

Central bankers rarely get an easy ride. They are always doing too much or too little, depending on your outlook. If there’s one man who has escaped that inferno without even a dusting of charcoal, it is Andy Haldane. That’s no mean feat — the former chief economist of the Bank of England spent 32

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Funds

SEC set to force hedge funds, high-frequency traders to register

The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to impose new rules that would require many private funds to register with the agency as so-called dealers, a move that regulators say will help them better monitor a sometimes wobbly market for U.S. government debt. When firms that deal Treasury bonds register with the SEC “they become

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Finance

Ex-U.K. finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng to step down from politics

Published: Feb. 6, 2024 at 6:25 a.m. ET Kwasi Kwarteng, who served as the U.K.’s finance minister during the mini-budget crisis which saw Britain’s pound drop to its lowest ever levels against the U.S. dollar, has said he will not stand for reelection as a member of parliament. The British politician, who had previously worked

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Investors

This is the mistake investors are making in thinking about a second Trump term, says UBS strategists

Published: Jan. 24, 2024 at 8:20 a.m. ET Donald Trump, the Republican former president, has won the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and is leading Nikki Haley by a substantial margin in South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017. So it’s highly likely that Trump will be the Republican presidential

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Investors

Taiwan’s elections: Here’s what investors should watch

This Saturday, Taiwan will head to the polls, in elections that will be closely watched by investors, due to the self-governing territory’s outsized role in the global economy as the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.  For voters, the choice between the three candidates – representing the center-left Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the center right

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Finance

What will shape finance this year?

When ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in early 2023, financial services firms initially reacted by banning their employees from using it. A year later, many executives are heralding generative AI as transformative for their business. AI as a key theme for 2024 may seem obvious. But what are the other trends that will affect

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