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MSCI’s decision on June 21 to include A-shares in its Emerging Markets Index has, once again, unleashed furious debate between those seeing it as another case of global institutions bending the rules to appease China and those always viewing the China glass as half full. But neither view has much to offer in explaining the Mainland’s growing integration in global financial markets. -
The charging of four Barclays executives and the group itself on Tuesday after a UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation might, at last, satisfy the public desire to see bankers banged up. But it’s hard to see what else it will achieve.
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Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s caution on the UK economy in his Mansion House speech on Tuesday could be an early warning for the UK RMBS market that the Term Funding Scheme (TFS) won't end soon, an unwelcome development for supply starved investors.
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For every step forward that the Masala bond market takes, it goes two steps backwards, with the Reserve Bank of India recently putting up barriers to keep high yield issuers out of offshore rupees. Cutting off low grade Masala issuance isn’t the worst thing to come out of the central bank’s announcement — the rules could also stifle investment grade deals.
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No matter how you choose to invest in Venezuela, you run into questions of morality. There may be no perfect way to buy Venezuelan bonds, but there is certainly a dubious way.
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Financial analysts and investors trying to make sense of what the UK general election result means for the upcoming Brexit negotiations should take a step back and ignore what they read for some time. The British government is clueless on its approach to Europe.
