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Turkey’s national election board has cancelled the results of the Istanbul mayoral race that president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party lost in March and ordered a rerun. This is widely thought of internationally as a blow to democracy, and in Istanbul citizens have taken to the streets in protest. But Erdoğan’s behaviour has been so unpredictable in the past year that there is hope the rerun in June will be free and fair enough for investors to breathe easy. It seems a bet made more in hope than expectation.
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Equity investors are too complacent about the prospects of the wheels coming off of trade talks between China and the US. Such optimism could wreck equity capital markets for the year if negotiations sour, -
With South Korea and the Philippines heading to euros for new bond transactions, more issuers from Asia should take courage and consider funding in the needlessly neglected currency.
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While other central banks have started to grapple with climate change, the Federal Reserve has been conspicuous by its absence. But as green shoots begin to emerge in the US, the Fed will not be able to ignore the topic for much longer.
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The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party’s success in Sunday’s general election is expected to keep the country’s climate action programme on track, which includes the possibility of issuing a debut green bond.
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The retail industry is in deep trouble, especially in the UK, where every other week it seems a storied High Street name tumbles into financial distress. Private equity sponsors, which owned many of the collapsed names, take much of the blame, but they were also victims of structural changes that battered the industry.
