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If Qatar does go ahead with a bond, it needs to be the one being selective about which banks it will work with.
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Recent deals are breathing life into a dim sum bond market that has faced a drought in supply. And with market conditions turning in the sell side’s favour, more issuers should syphon off this renminbi funding stream. -
The Bank of England is now odds on to raise interest rates at the November meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee in November, after the Consumer Price index reported inflation exceeding 3%, but such a move could tip the UK economy over a cliff.
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As the world’s finance ministers, central bank governors and investment bankers dispersed from Washington DC at the weekend after the IMF-World Bank annual meetings, a sense of oppression hung over them.
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In recent years, the European Union has reformed in the teeth of a crisis. Banking Union was sketched out on the back of a napkin to help break the “sovereign-bank doom loop” which was threatening peripheral economies. The financing vehicles of the European Financial Stability Fund and then the European Stability Mechanism were called into being to rescue states whose finances were already weak.
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Vincom Retail is treading new ground in Vietnam’s snail-paced listing market, aiming to list its shares just two weeks after the IPO. But any hopes that this will be the dawn of a new age may be dashed. The big deals set to follow are a slew of privatisations — and Vietnam’s state-owned enterprises are notoriously tardy.
