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Turbulent Markets Jolt Currency Hedge Funds From Decade-Long Slumber
Date: October 18, 2022
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Veteran hedge fund manager John Taylor describes one of his favourite Gary Larson cartoons, where one vulture sitting on an animal carcass says to another as more descend: “good friends flying in from all over…this is the best of times”. There is, he says jokingly, a resemblance to the...
UK Gilt Yields Rise as BoE Pooh-Poohs Report of Delay to Bond Sales
Date: October 18, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – British government bond yields rose after the Bank of England said it had not decided to delay the start of its “quantitative tightening” sales of gilts again, labelling a Financial Times report that said such a move was likely as inaccurate. The 10-year gilt yield shot up by as much as 9...
FTSE 100 Climbs Ahead of Hunt’s Fiscal Plans
Date: October 17, 2022
By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -London shares rose for a third consecutive session on Monday as investors awaited new finance minister Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal plans that would seek to restore market confidence in Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index gained 0.5%, while the domestically focussed FTSE 250 index climbed 0.6%. The pound...
Angel Investment: Why Invest in Early-Stage Startups?
Date: October 14, 2022
By Luis O’Cleiry, Co-Founder and CMSO, LastBasic After difficult times resulting from the pandemic, startups around the globe were delighted to experience a funding boost in 2021. By the end of the year, $29.1 billion had been invested by business angels, marking an increase of 15.2% on the previous year. At present, angel investment remains...
Consumer Sentiment Impact Amid Recession Fears
Date: October 13, 2022
By John Cunnison, Chartered Financial Analyst®, Chief Investment Officer, Baker Boyer Often fascinating and counter-intuitive, historical data of consumer sentiment can powerfully foreshadow market behavior and its impact on investment market performance. As fear of recession rises, a review of consumer behavior during recessions of the past gives us a pretty good idea of how...
Italian Bond Yields Rise as German Support for Joint EU Debt Seen as Unlikely
Date: October 11, 2022
By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) -Italian 10-year bond yields rose on Tuesday after a German official dismissed a report that the country’s government planned to support the issuance of joint European Union debt. German yields fell, having jumped the previous day after Bloomberg reported that the government would support issuing joint EU debt to tackle...