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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-27/china-s-digital-yuan-could-get-a-boost-from-putin-s-war-in-ukraine?srnd=premium-asia Banks must send messages to move funds. Sanctions against Russia underscore the need for Beijing to cut the cord to the U.S.-dominated system. But could a ban boost China?Photographer:…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-fund-trade-blew-repo-market-set-return A popular hedge fund trade – known as the Treasury Basis Trade which, reminiscent of what LTCM did back in the day seeks to profit from minuscule differences between…
https://thenyledger.com/companies/dws-chief-under-scrutiny-over-e160000-porsche-payment/ Deutsche Bank alerted Germany’s financial crime watchdog to a €160,000 payment made by a client to one of its most senior bankers, which the men later explained was part…
https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/12/17/sold-short-confessions-of-a-young-banker “Industry” gives a graphic but true picture of life on the trading floor, says The Economist’s Wall Street correspondent I had to watch each episode of “Industry”, a TV…
https://www.vivaraenews.com/news/sp-500-three-market-gurus-tell-you-when-stocks-will-stop-falling/ Watching trillions of dollars in wealth evaporate in just a few weeks gets the imagination reeling. And already three well-known market strategists are trying to find when the S&P…
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4481138-crashing-without-a-net Summary As the Fed buys bonds, they are printing money and driving up the price of bonds. As bond prices come down, stock prices will also come down. With…
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/are-passive-index-funds-sustainable Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free newsletter. Subscribe here. Who doesn’t like cheap stuff that works well? Consider index funds. First, a refresher: A market index is a hypothetical…
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/visualizing-94-trillion-world-economy-one-chart Just four countries – the U.S., China, Japan, and Germany – make up over half of the world’s economic output by gross domestic product (GDP) in nominal terms. In…
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/so-you-want-career-finance Corporate finance is a key pillar on which modern markets and economies have been built. And, as Visual Capitalist’s Aran Ali details below, this complex ecosystem consists of a…