Higher interest rates and tighter lending conditions are creating a very attractive environment for opportunistic credit managers with flexible capital to fill large liquidity gaps.
Negative confidence effects from the near-death experience in the US banking sector and the unresolved energy situation in Europe will shape the rest of the year.
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. A mix of measures can reduce the sector’s carbon dioxide emissions to almost zero.
The investment world has been rocked by two bank failures in the US and a crisis at a Swiss giant, Philip Saunders argues that this is a healthy development for the long term.
Confirmation that US inflation was continuing at a high pace offered a dilemma for markets seeking to anticipate the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) next move.