Apr 8th 2021FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppFACED WITH recalcitrant sovereign counterparties, foreign investors and companies occasionally take drastic action. A picaresque example of the genre occurred in 2012, when Elliott Management, a buccaneering American hedge fund which held distressed Argentine bonds, seized a handsome tall ship belonging to Argentina’s navy. Elliott’s aggressive tactics ultimately paid off, and others have…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is currently negotiating with Russia on an advance purchase agreement of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday.Spahn told a news conference that the requirements were approval by the European Medicines Agency, as well as whether doses would be available within the next few months.“The crucial…
BRUSSELS, April 9 (Reuters) – Greece on Friday secured approval from EU competition regulators to extend its “Hercules” bad loan reduction scheme to help banks reduce the mountain of impaired credit burdening their balance sheets.The scheme was launched in October 2019 to help the country’s banks offload up to 30 billion euros of bad loans…
FILE PHOTO: The Charging Bull or Wall Street Bull is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) – Investors have pumped more money into equities over the past five months than in the last 12 years, BofA’s weekly flow figures showed on Friday,…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan made sure that language warning against excess currency market volatility remained in place when G20 finance leaders made a rare tweak to their message on exchange-rate moves, said officials with knowledge of the deliberations.In the first communique compiled since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, finance leaders of the Group of…
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Former VP Mike Pence added Trump administration officials to his new political advocacy group. Ice Miller LLP added Pence’s nephew John Pence and former Buttigieg campaign staffer George Hornedo. Freshman Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat, also staffed up his Senate office See more stories on Insider’s business page. A diaspora of Hoosier politicos in…
US Markets Loading… H M S Premium Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidates Amanda Chase, Kirk Cox, Pete Snyder, and Sergio de la Peña. Photos by Steve Helber/ AP Photo; Julia Rendleman for The Washington Post via Getty Images; Steve Helberand/ AP Photo; and De la Pena campaign site This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers.…
No results matched your search Economy8 hours ago (Apr 08, 2021 04:15PM ET) By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s benchmark Selic interest rate is set to reach its neutral level next year, a central bank director said on Thursday, adding that policymakers’ baseline scenario is for a Selic of 3% in real terms, or…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to news media in Ottawa OTTAWA (Reuters) – The COVID-19 pandemic and its damaging impact on women has underlined the need for a national childcare plan, which would also help the economic recovery, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Since taking up her job…
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