The Federal Reserve has shown that it knows how to maintain the flow of credit during a crisis. But bond investors now also expect the Fed’s unprecedented stimulus in financial markets to change the course of the credit cycle – that is, preventing more companies from falling than expected just …
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Text size Photograph by Andrew Burton / Getty Images BlackRock’s second-quarter earnings increased 22% to $ 7.85 per share higher than expected, while net flows plummeted during the period of market uncertainty. The increase in earnings partly reflected a lower share count after BlackRock (BLK) repurchased part of PNC Financial …
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The logos of the mobile applications Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google and Messenger are displayed on a tablet. denis charlet / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images Fund managers say the technology trade has never been so crowded. But that has not prevented them from betting too much on the sector. …
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The “art” of doing business has become quite a difficult sale this year. Rainmakers in the global M&A business saw the count of completed deals drop to $ 1.11 trillion in the first six months of the year, about half the volume seen during the same period in 2019, for …
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