Helen Thomas
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Markets should accept cheap money isn't coming back (opens the original)
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We are no longer living in the post-financial crisis world of chronically weak demand, persistent disinflation and negligible interest rates, and the market needs to adjust, writes Helen Thomas The rise in government bond yields has been relentless since investors returned from their summer holidays. A dawning realisation that disruption to the Strait of Hormuz may prove more persistent, keeping inflationary pressures alive, has collided with a surge in bond supply from governments and infrastru
Will Britain follow Japan's great growth gamble? (opens the original)
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has unveiled an expansionary economic blueprint aiming to break Japan’s long-standing cycle of stagnation through state-led investment, creating a precarious balancing act for the Bank of Japan as it attempts to maintain market confidence and monetary stability, says Helen Thomas A newly installed leader promises to break with the economic orthodoxy of the recent past by using the state to stimulate investment, improve productivity and raise the economy’s l
Andy Burnham should start by scrapping the £100k tax trap (opens the original)
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Cutting taxes is expensive, but there is a way Andy Burnham could make them simpler and fairer, says Helen Thomas Andy Burnham’s first interview as Labour’s presumptive Prime Minister contained a somewhat unlikely observation. Speaking to the Sunday Times, he said one issue repeatedly raised on the doorstep was the frozen £12,570 personal allowance. It is difficult to imagine many voters in Makerfield quoting the income tax threshold from memory. What they were almost certainly telling him was s
Could an England World Cup win boost the markets? (opens the original)
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The equity markets of World Cup-winning countries frequently outperform immediately after victory. A Goldman Sachs study of tournaments from 1974-2014 found that every winner except Brazil in 2002 subsequently enjoyed a period of market outperformance, says Helen Thomas If football finally came home, what might it do for financial markets, aside from a late start for Cable traders? Research conducted before previous tournaments has found that the equity markets of World Cup-winning countries fre
South Korea is the canary in the coalmine of the AI boom (opens the original)
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South Korea’s experiment with leveraged single-stock ETFs has shown how quickly passive investing, concentrated markets and retail speculation can feed on one another, says Helen Thomas The new frontier for the AI boom isn’t Silicon Valley but South Korea. While the country has long been home to technology giants such as Samsung Electronics, the country’s stock market has taken on an entirely different character this year. The benchmark KOSPI has delivered extraordinary gains, having doubled sin
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