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Global Market Overview
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EQUITIES
1:21pm
Stock market shares bound to record highs
Financials lead way as bullishness grows
- On Wall Street Bond traders take bearish action on junk
- The Short View ECB inaction wrong-foots some investors
Inside London
3:06pm
Aviva’s woes expose insurance deal legacy
Buying shares triumph of hope over experience
CAPITAL MARKETS
2:19pm
Norway’s oil fund jettisons Gilts
Largest SWF also reduces holdings of French sovereign bonds
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Weekender
This week on FT Alphaville,
- We celebrated International Women’s Day. Twice…
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A $200m Friday afternoon JNK sale
Further to our markets story from earlier this week (Investors ready for high-yield selloff), a massive $200m block of 5m shares in State Street’s SPDR...
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JPM: stress is what other banks feel
A grateful hat tip to the FT’s Shahien Nasiripour for constructing and sending us the following basic spreadsheet.
It shows the discrepancy between...
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La brutta figura
Italy has finally fallen out of the ‘A’ ratings and into the Bs, at Fitch Ratings.
Here’s the explanation for cutting it to BBB+, outlook...
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Ms Penny Hughes writes…
Probably best to just get on and crowd-source the analysis and commentary on this one:
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On stabilising the gold price
Almost a year ago the Telegraph’s Thomas Pascoe put out an interesting piece on gold. We’ve decided to reprise it this Friday because we think...
COMMODITIES
4:55pm
Brent dips as North Sea pipeline reopens
Oil price at year-lows as supply concerns ease
EQUITIES
10:55pm
Cairn Energy gains ground on takeover talk
US jobs data lift London market to a new five-year high
CAPITAL MARKETS
Mar 8, 2013
China Vanke dollar bond raises $800m
Landmark issue highlights strong appetite for Chinese real estate debt
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Bond traders take bearish action on junk
Selling may trigger major dislocation for interest rate markets