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Emerging market bond trading desks were quiet on Monday, as the last business week of the year began with the world reacting to the rapid spread of a new strain of the Sars-Cov-2 virus in the UK. But market participants expect that EM assets cannot remain immune. -
Fresh fears are rising about the future of companies already pummelled by the economic ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic. New research suggests that the worst affected industries will be the hardest hit again as Europe heads into another round of major lockdowns.
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European stock markets fell heavily in early trading on Monday morning after European countries shut their borders to the UK over a new mutant variant of the coronavirus, which is rapidly spreading through the country. With the UK also heading rapidly towards a no-deal Brexit in January there is little Christmas cheer among equity investors.
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This week in Keeping Tabs: Republicans battle over Federal Reserve support, a look back at the "Spanish" flu, and a quiz from the Bank of England.
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Governments have had little choice but to load up on debt to save their economies. With the crucial support of low interest rates and vast quantitative easing programmes, there is little immediate threat to debt sustainability. But as Jasper Cox reports, nothing lasts forever.
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Governments and “wealthy” private creditors in advanced and emerging economies can reduce the bilateral debts owed by the world’s poorest countries without triggering an outbreak of financial contagion, David Malpass has said.
