Europe
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The London RMB hub has been under threat from the Brexit vote, but China seems keen not to jump ship yet. The latest round of meetings have yielded a commitment to launching the long-promised London-Shanghai Stock Connect, the UK Treasury said on November 10. -
This week, those in the capital markets showed it’s not just electorates that can deliver surprises. Investors got one back — by making markets rise on a shock Donald Trump election victory.
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Equity specialists marvelled again this week at the capacity of markets to surprise, as despite a strongly held consensus that shares would tumble if Donald Trump won the US presidency, the New York stockmarket actually rose.
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has requested more than $38m in monetary sanctions against UK based trader Navinder Singh Sarao over S&P futures 'spoofing' allegations.
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Donald Trump may have pledged to “make America great again”, but his election as US president this week could also make 10 year dollar benchmarks trade again.
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The remarkably rapid recovery of European investment grade corporate credit tripped on Thursday, as sell-offs in rates and equity markets disturbed market sentiment, but the primary market still looks sturdy in the face of volatility.
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Yields on Europe's peripheral government debt rose only a few basis points over Bunds on Wednesday’s news that Donald Trump had won the US presidential election race.
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US and European financing markets are wide open for business despite the shock US election result, and banks are pressing on with M&A mandates with seemingly renewed vigour. Elly Whittaker reports.
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Siemens, the German engineering group, is planning to move ahead with a public listing of its healthcare business, it said as it released its fourth quarter earnings on Thursday morning.
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The FIG market showed poise following Donald Trump’s shock victory in the US presidential election this week, with new issuance restarting within a single day. But the result has not passed without consequence, as market participants prepare themselves for further political turmoil.
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