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Equities are at record highs, rates at record lows; the US is quarrelling, China is slowing. As 2020 begins, participants are divided on which way markets will move. Toby Fildes picks 10 themes -
Debt market specialists this week put forward contrasting views on the policies the European Central Bank might use to tackle climate change, after Christine Lagarde, its new president, said her strategic review of its mandate and operations would encompass how the bank should respond to it. She also promised action on stablecoins. Burhan Khadbai and Lewis McLellan report.
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A third instalment of the UK Department for Education’s current programme of student loan securitizations has stalled, a casualty of a tight general election and volatile politics. Concerns about whether securitization gives government good value for money are a potential obstacle, while investors will have to weigh up an instrument highly geared to the fate of the UK economy. Owen Sanderson and Tom Brown report.
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Indian non-banking financial companies will be forced to wean off from their reliance on the rupee bond market and tap international investors next year amid a liquidity crunch onshore. But with buyers becoming increasingly selective on the kinds of NBFCs they will buy, borrowers should be prepared to pay up.
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First Eagle Investment Management will acquire THL Credit Advisors, a credit investment and CLO management firm headquartered in Boston which has approximately $17bn in assets.
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The compromises made last week to reach political agreement on the European Union’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities were beginning to become clearer, before the surprise rejection of the deal by France and some east European countries on Wednesday threw the issue up in the air again.
