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The Sri Lankan ministry of finance has responded to a Fitch rating downgrade by saying that the country does not ‘accept’ the decision, and has in place a policy framework to tackle its debt obligations and spur economic growth. -
Veteran equity analyst and forensic accountant Steve Clapham believes it is stories that drive investment decisions and seldom cold analysis of financial accounts. But he believes it is hard to find a company which isn’t engaged in some level of financial wrongdoing and argues that auditors are blind to it, wilfully or otherwise.
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In this round-up, the official manufacturing and services Purchasing Managers’ Indexes reach multi-year highs, the bourses in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen add pre-revenue biotech companies listed in Hong Kong as well as Star market shares to the Stock Connect programme, and four more Chinese companies will be added to a US list of firms with alleged military ties.
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Banco de Sabadell’s debt securities took a nose-dive in the secondary market on Friday morning, after the Spanish lender said that it had failed to agree on the terms of a merger with BBVA.
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In this round-up, China’s banking and insurance regulator decides to allow beleaguered Baoshang Bank to go bankrupt, Hong Kong’s chief executive says pre-profit biotech stocks and some Star companies will be added to the Stock Connect programme, and India moves to ban another 43 China-based mobile applications.
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There is every reason to be sceptical of the UK’s plan for a national infrastructure bank. Infrastructure is hard to finance because governments are unreliable. Combining hard assets expected to pay back over 30 years with democratic governments that change course every few makes private investors reluctant to treat long-term infra projects as a pure matter of credit risk.
