Mexico’s new president: IMF dilemma and risk for Latin America By Hector Torres Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is inheriting a fiscal imbalance equivalent to 5.9% of the country’s gross domestic…
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Good Morning Monaco Saturday, June 29, 2024 Monaco officially added to ‘money laundering’ grey list The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global anti-money laundering watchdog, announced on… Monaco government…
HIGHLIGHTS June 28 2024 Global Markets Semi-core and peripheral EGBs continued to underperform core paper, with the 10-yr OAT-Bund yield spread closing above 80bps yesterday for the first time…
Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: “The UK market is celebrating some better news on the economic side of things. GDP for the first three months of the year…
EIB and Cepsa sign €285 million loan to finance the construction of a second-generation biofuels plant in Spain
· Plant in Andalusia region to make biofuels from organic waste like used cooking oil or agricultural waste, supporting the circular economy. · Biofuels to be used in sectors that are difficult…
Income tax statistics have been published today: Table 2.1 Number of individual Income Tax payers – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), Table 2.6 Income Tax liabilities by marginal rate of Income Tax – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)…
Sailing towards sustainability: can sale and leaseback structures transform Ship Finance for a greener future?
by Idil Erbil, Solicitor and Marine & Aviation Claims Consultant INTRODUCTION Some key decarbonisation initiatives are significantly affecting the shipping industry. These include International Maritime Organization (IMO) strategies, which enforce…
HIGHLIGHTS June 26, 2024 Global Markets European equities rose at Wednesday’s open after ECB policy maker Olli Rehn said in an interview that investor expectations for two more rate…
Susannah Streeter head of money and markets, Hargreaves Lansdown: ‘’An uptick in confidence has sent the FTSE 100 higher, after US tech staged a rebound, particularly the chipmaker Nvidia. Fears…
Following our previous live “encounters” with ERT’s journalist and former Seafarer Antonis Karagiannakis – emanating also from a historic maritime Greek island, that is Kasos, today we bring you in…
Hamburg Commercial Bank acquires NIBC’s shipping business HAMBURG/GERMANY – Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB) is strengthening its shipping business by acquiring an USD 992 million portfolio of shipping loans from Dutch bank…
Market Report – UK retail sales much better than expected, AI profit-taking seen on Wall Street
Market Report – UK retail sales much better than expected, AI profit-taking seen on Wall Street Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: “Unsurprisingly, the Bank of England’s interest rate…
FCA on high alert over gamification of trading apps FCA and gaming apps experiment: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-keeps-trading-apps-under-review-over-gaming-concerns Risk taking and arrears data in the HL Savings & Resilience Barometer on efficient use…
Climate mitigation doesn’t have to come at the expense of growth By Marion Amiot and Paul Gruenwald Over the past few years, the climate policy paradigm has moved from a…
Cash ISAs through savings platforms continue to offer top rates for savers HL’s Cash ISA remains the only savings platform to offer clients the ability to spread their ISA allowance…
Geopolitical risks continue to loom over central bank FX reserves By Gary Smith Two surveys of central bank foreign exchange reserve managers have been published in recent weeks – both…
Emma Wall, head of investment analysis and research, Hargreaves Lansdown: “The General Election may be dominating the headlines, but the most exciting opportunity for investors is not linked to who…
Building the next generation of capital markets By Katerina Liu Market participants have been talking about using distributed ledger technology as a tool to improve capital markets infrastructure for at…
Good Morning Monaco Saturday, June 15, 2024 44 vehicles seized in government crackdown on dangerous driving during Top Marques Monaco show The most successful Top Marques Monaco show to date…
9th Capital Link Maritime Leaders Summit – Greece : “Dashing Ahead – Leadership in Action” – Monday, June 3, 2024 | Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel in Athens
…a full house! Agenda Sponsors Dashing Ahead – Leadership in Action The 9th Capital Link Maritime Leaders Summit – Greece titled “Dashing Ahead – Leadership in Action” took place on…
Five ways to respond to the manifestos – don’t let the investment dog chase the policy squirrel
Sarah Coles, head of personal finance, Hargreaves Lansdown: “The manifestos delivered some pretty hefty tomes, packed with pledges, promises, bunting, babies and hard hats. But now the dust has settled…
Europe’s unnecessary rate cut By Nout Wellink From a macroeconomic point of view, the European Central Bank’s 0.25 percentage point interest rate cut on 6 June was not necessary –…
2,038 exhibitors from 81 countries present at biggest ever Posidonia Posidonia 2024 has already gone down in history as the best-attended in the biennial event’s 55 years of existence, and…
Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: “The UK market has shrugged off more upbeat trading in Asia to open down at the open. This partly reflects a lack of…