Financial market storm brewing as 2014 winds down
After a year in which world markets have sailed effortlessly through wars, invasions and geopolitical ferment, a storm of their own making may well be brewing. Investors have mostly held…
Destroyed jet, sanctions to drive more money to Latam, Asia
The downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over eastern Ukraine on Thursday is likely to keep fixed income investors shunning Russia, and eastern Europe more broadly, in favour of other…
Green managers stuff funds with Apple after environmental reforms
Apple Inc, criticised in the past for greenhouse gas emissions, use of toxic materials and the hiring of underage workers, has improved its practices and earned better scores from groups…
Funds pile into rail car maker Trinity as new safety rules seen
Rail car makers, little-known winners of the North American energy boom, are capturing the attention of fund managers and regulators alike. A string of derailments, some of them deadly, of…
J.P Morgan on profit drop: Be relieved we aren’t taking big risks
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co executives had a clear message for shareholders after reporting declining first-quarter earnings: don't worry, be happy that the bank isn't chasing short-term gains by making…
Europe no longer the bane of US corporate profits
Europe, long a scapegoat for weak earnings at US multinational companies, is now looking like a more dependable source of profits, and that could make some stocks that have lagged…
Europe faces moment of truth on banks, with flawed defences
Europe's banks face a moment of truth next year when health checks will spell out the repairs they need. The trouble is that fixing them could require cash-strapped governments to…
US Treasuries seen weakening in 2014 but rout unlikely
Investors who bet heavily on Treasuries took a beating in 2013, and as the Fed winds down its bond buying, they face the risk of a second straight losing year,…
Shrinking US municipal fund outflows could signal end of exodus
A record-setting flood of money from the US municipal bond market may be near an end as the sector's high yields beckon investors bearing cash from year-end redemptions. In a…
Asia’s post-September market rally runs out of gas
Investors' appetite for emerging Asia stocks, bonds and currencies is spent, and for reasons that go beyond the overriding question of when and how the US Federal Reserve will reverse…
