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Over the last week the US president has pushed to make homes and consumer credit more affordable but these policies risk unintended consequences
Issuance volumes may be high but demand is even higher. Credit issuers in particular should take full advantage
Hounding the Fed does not make the US bond market more attractive
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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. -
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.
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A year ago, Hong Kong’s stock exchange (HKEX) added a new chapter to its regulations, allowing pre-revenue biotechnology companies to list. The historic move has turned the city into the biotech IPO hub of Asia. But its fortune could change if the Mainland’s new Nasdaq-style Shanghai tech board, which offers similar pre-revenue concessions, stems the flow of its primarily Chinese issuers.
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China made big strides developing its green bond market last year, moving closer to international standards and producing a volume of issuance that placed it only behind the United States. But this year, the market has gone backwards. What has happened to Chinese green bond issuance?
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Luckin Coffee is brewing excitement in the US equity market after it confirmed plans for an IPO this week and filed a draft prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But while the Chinese coffee chain is being hailed as a major competitor to Starbucks, there is reason to think that assessment carries a lot of froth.
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Ray Dalio’s missive on reforming capitalism proposes making the US more egalitarian: this might be needed to avoid slowing the economy and even to avert a collapse in the economic system itself. But investors such as Dalio are not so keen on putting capital into the one region in the world where capitalism and equality have found an easier marriage.
