(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said on Friday it has sold shares of some of the largest U.S. banks, slashing its stakes in Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and exiting an investment in Goldman Sachs Group I... More »
CAIRO/LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – The threat of conflict in Libya, water security worries and a flatlining tourist sector risk upending a nascent rally in Egyptian bonds, bankers and economists say. The North African country has attracted a wave of foreign invest... More »
(Reuters) – Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd, the blank check company backed by billionaire investor Bill Ackman, has increased the size of its initial public offering by $1 billion to $4 billion, the largest ever IPO by a special purpose acquisition compa... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Industries said on Sunday Qualcomm Inc’s investment arm will buy a 0.15% stake in its digital unit Jio Platforms for 7.3 billion rupees ($97.1 million). The partnership will help Jio Platforms, the unit that houses Relian... More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – Germany could only allow coronavirus antibody tests to help determine how freely people can move once it has advice from its ethics council, Health Minister Jens Spahn said, after securing millions of the tests from Swiss drugmaker Roche. Ge... More »
(Reuters) – Investors sent record inflows to high-yield corporate bonds and broke a six-week losing streak for investment-grade debt in the week that ended Wednesday as market volatility from the coronavirus crisis began to subside, according to Lipper data re... More »
DUBAI (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates agriculture technology start-up Pure Harvest Smart Farms has raised $20.6 million in fresh funding and secured commitments for a further $100 million, it said on Monday. Wafra International, an investment firm owned by th... More »
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Private investment funds operating in Colombia have around $5 billion available to invest in projects in the Andean country, the investors’ guild president said Thursday. Private investment funds have managed around $16.8 billion in mainly i... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. equity funds saw outflows of $2.6 billion in the latest week, according to Lipper. U.S.-based taxable bond funds attracted $7.9 billion in the week ended on Wednesday, the seventh straight weekly inflow, and money market funds gained $6.3 bill... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Sovereign wealth funds’ investment moves are becoming more closely aligned with the global asset management industry as they mature, and their growing size makes it harder for them to make contrarian bets, a report showed. But the move to mo... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings said it will step up its investment overseas and in industries such as “smart retail”, having already invested in more than 800 companies. Those firms include 70 listed companies and over 160 are valued a... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A wave of social unrest across developing countries this year has caught many investors off-guard and is challenging models designed to gauge political risk for investors, prompting some to pull money out. That has led to worries that a with... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. equity stock funds saw $390 million in outflows in the week ended on Wednesday, the fourth straight week of outflows for such funds, according to data released by Lipper on Friday. U.S. taxable bond funds attracted $5.9 billion, the 1... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. equity funds saw $3.6 billion in outflows in the week ended on Wednesday, according to data released on Thursday by Lipper. U.S. taxable bond funds attracted $12.4 billion, the 15th straight inflow, while U.S. money market funds shed $25.3 bil... More »
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) – Specialized fund managers who pioneered green investing for decades are missing out on some of the spoils as the sector goes mainstream and large firms move in. So-called sustainable funds, which pick stocks based on environ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – At a time when U.S. utilities face pressure to rely more on renewable energy, a well-known investor in the space said it is equally important to judge companies by their spending on less glamorous areas like power lines and grid reliabilit... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. equity funds shed $3.98 billion in the week ended Wednesday, according to data released by Lipper on Thursday. U.S.-based taxable bond funds attracted $6.3 billion, the eleventh straight weekly inflow, while U.S. money market funds attracted $... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. equity funds attracted $4 billion in the week ended Wednesday, the first inflow in four weeks, according to data release by Lipper. U.S. based taxable bond funds drew $6.3 billion, the tenth straight weekly inflow, while U.S.-based money marke... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. equity funds saw $7.9 billion in outflows in the last week, the second consecutive weekly drawdown, as bond and money market funds drew money, according to data released by Lipper on Thursday. U.S.-based taxable bond funds attracted $641 milli... More »
(Reuters) – Aircraft leasing companies are launching moves to recover dozens of Airbus passenger planes after the collapse of British travel group Thomas Cook (TCG.L), market sources said. The overall group operates a fleet of 85 Airbus planes and 31 Boeing je... More »
(Reuters) – The bosses of Thomas Cook (TCG.L), the world’s oldest travel company, were meeting lenders and creditors in London on Sunday to seek a last-ditch deal to save the company. Thomas Cook needs to find another 200 million pounds ($250 million) on top o... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – French manufacturing companies have lowered their investment plans from only a few months ago, according to a quarterly survey from the INSEE statistics agency on Tuesday. Manufacturers plan on increasing investments in 2019 by 6%, down from ... More »
(Reuters) – U.S.-based high-yield junk bond funds posted more than $4 billion of outflows in the week ended Wednesday, the largest weekly cash withdrawals since October 2018, according to Refinitiv’s Lipper data, triggered by an escalating trade war between Ch... More »
(Reuters) – U.S.-based equity funds posted more than $8.4 billion of cash withdrawals in the week ended Wednesday, following two weeks of inflows, according to Refinitiv’s Lipper. The withdrawals came ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting. In the same w... More »
(Reuters) – U.S.-based money-market funds attracted about $28 billion in the week ended Wednesday, their largest weekly inflow since mid-May, as the S&P 500 Index rose above 3,000 for the first time on Wednesday. It was money funds’ third consecutive week of c... More »
(Reuters) – Investors’ appetite for risk-taking was on display in the latest week, as U.S.-based high-yield junk bond funds attracted more than $3 billion in the week ended Wednesday, their third consecutive week of inflows. At the top of the credit spectrum, ... More »
(Reuters) – U.S.-based equity funds attracted $4.4 billion of inflows in the week ended Wednesday, following two consecutive weeks of cash outflows totaling $34 billion, according to Refinitiv’s Lipper, as the United States and Mexico struck a deal to avert ta... More »
(Reuters) – Investors’ aversion to risk-taking intensified in the latest week, stemming from trade tensions between the United States and China as well as Mexico, with U.S.-based domestic equities funds posting $10 billion of cash withdrawals, according to Ref... More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – Investment banking conditions have improved over recent months but remains “very fragile,” UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said on Thursday, adding the Swiss lender’s own business was performing in line with the industry. “In March we sta... More »
(Reuters) – Investors rattled by U.S.-China trade tensions pulled roughly $22 billion from U.S.-based equity funds in the week ended May 29, according to data released by Refinitiv’s Lipper research service on Thursday. U.S.-based investment-grade bond funds, ... More »
(Reuters) – Investors rattled by lingering trade tensions between the United States and China pulled $12.27 billion from U.S.-based equity funds in the week ended Wednesday, according to data released by Refinitiv’s Lipper research service on Thursday. It was ... More »
(Reuters) – Billionaire George Soros’ investment firm, Soros Fund Management Llc, raised its stake in Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) convertible bonds due in 2021 by 17.5 million convertible bonds to 37.5 million convertible bonds as of the end of the first quarter, acc... More »
(Reuters) – Some of the biggest, highest-profile U.S. hedge fund investors and money managers fell back in love with FAANGs in the first quarter, according to regulatory filings released on Wednesday. After dumping shares of Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com... More »
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said it owned $860.6 million of Amazon.com Inc shares at the end of March, after the billionaire admitted to underestimating the online retailer and its Chief Executive Jeff Bezos. The size of the investment ... More »
(Reuters) – Financing group Greensill Capital on Monday confirmed SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund has invested $800 million in the British company, a vote of confidence in the UK finance sector that has been navigating Brexit challenges. Greensill, which pro... More »
(Reuters) – Investors gravitated toward the higher-quality spectrum of the credit markets this week, as U.S.-based investment-grade corporate bond funds attracted about $374.5 million in net cash, their 14th consecutive week of inflows. According to Refinitiv’... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Collapsing asset price volatility has turned ‘carry trading’ into one of investors’ top plays of 2019. Many reckon the run is far from over. This strategy sees investors borrow in currencies where interest rates are low to invest in countrie... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British companies look set to cut investment by the most in 10 years in 2019 because of Brexit, even if Prime Minister Theresa May gets a deal to ease the country out of the bloc, an employers group said on Monday. Business investment was fo... More »
(Reuters) – Investors poured money into equity exchange-traded funds and high-yield “junk” bond funds in the week ended on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump said he would extend a deadline to delay escalating tariffs on Chinese imports, citing “substan... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – An investment firm backed by the Beijing city government is in talks with prospective investors to raise over 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in its first fund aimed mainly at cutting-edge tech investments, said two people with direct know... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion cut tax package appeared to have no major impact on businesses’ capital investment or hiring plans, according to a survey released a year after the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in more th... More »
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday urged global investors to put their money into Myanmar, seeking to offset the negative impact of the Rohingya crisis and slow pace of economic reforms. Suu Kyi touted Myanmar’s economic potential,... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors pulled $98 billion from U.S.-based stock funds in December, a calendar-month record that emphasizes the diminishing goodwill in financial markets, preliminary Lipper estimates showed on Thursday. Fund investors trimmed their risk... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors eased into wild stock markets during the latest week, adding $5.2 billion, according to Lipper data on Thursday that reflected the first net positive flows for funds since December’s selloff began. Stock exchange-traded... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors fled U.S.-based stock funds in the latest week, setting those investments up for their biggest month of withdrawals on record, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More than $80.7 billion poured out of U.S.-based stock funds during th... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. mutual fund investors pulled $13.7 billion from stocks and bonds during the latest week, according to data released on Thursday by Lipper underscoring retail investors’ rising concerns over turbulent markets. After a sprinting start t... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors in U.S. funds traded international equities for domestic stocks during the latest week as earnings beat expectations while trade tensions simmered, Lipper data showed on Thursday. U.S.-based equity funds posted $620 million in wi... More »
(Reuters) – Fund investors piled into U.S.-based equity exchange-traded funds in the week ended Wednesday, following six straight weeks of withdrawals, Lipper data showed on Thursday, as investors geared up for strong quarterly earnings. The flows showed that ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors played it safe in June, plucking the most cash out of U.S.-based equity funds since the peak of the 2008 global financial crisis as U.S. trade disputes discouraged risk, Lipper data showed on Thursday. U.S.-based stock mutual fun... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S.-based money market funds posted $51 billion of net outflows for the week ended Wednesday, the largest cash withdrawal since 2011 and the seventh largest ever, according to Lipper data on Thursday. The drawdown in money fund assets, wh... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings, which owns China’s top social media app WeChat, has scrapped an investment of up to 30 million yuan ($4.7 million) in a content start-up that has been criticized online and by state media for its handling of copyright is... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s property investment growth slowed in April while sales marked their biggest fall in six months as higher borrowing costs and increased curbs on buyers weighed on demand, backing views that a key driver of the economy is losing some ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The shipping industry has long been criticized by campaigners for allowing vessels to be broken up on beaches, endangering workers and polluting the sea and sand. Now, it is being called to account from a quarter that may have a bit more clo... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors are wavering on one of their favorite bets of the last year, walloping emerging-market stocks and hunkering down in short-term bonds. Funds offered in the United States but invested in shares in emerging markets recorde... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors did some opportunistic buying because of higher yields in the debt market as U.S.-based government-Treasury funds attracted $530 million of net new cash in the week ended Wednesday, marking the group’s sixth straight week of infl... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors were undeterred by fears of rising interest rates, with U.S.-based equity funds attracting $3.5 billion of net cash in the week ended April 25, the third consecutive week of inflows, Lipper data showed on Thursday. The inflows we... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors stormed back into the market for the riskiest corporate debt during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, pumping the most cash into U.S.-based, high-yield bond funds in over 16 months. The resurgence in demand for hig... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors pulled back from the stock market for a third straight week, withdrawing $11.6 billion in cash in the week ended Wednesday, in the face of a potential full-blown trade war between the United States and China, Lipper dat... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors drained the most cash from the stock market since early February’s market meltdown, dodging declines while making a tactical bet on fallen technology companies, Lipper data released on Thursday showed. More than $14 bil... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors pulled $9.8 billion from stocks during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, halting the investments’ budding momentum after February’s selloff. The withdrawals, recorded during the seven days through March 7... More »
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the United States will impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on imported aluminum during a meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S.-based junk bond funds posted $703 million of outflows for the week ended Wednesday, their seventh straight week of cash withdrawals, Lipper data showed on Thursday. But higher up in the credit-quality spectrum, U.S.-based investment-g... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors inched back in to the markets during the most recent week, putting $2.5 billion into bonds and $1.1 billion into stocks, Lipper data showed on Thursday. Yet wounded investors were reluctant to wade back in to their home... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company’s headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, November 20, 2012. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo TORONTO/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – As shareholders push the world’s cash-rich miners to ... More »
U.S. fund investors fled the riskier corners of the debt market, pulling the second-highest amount of cash on record from high-yield "junk" bonds during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In late 2017, several well-known hedge funds made bets on companies selling goods considered non-essential by consumers and on companies processing raw materials, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission publis... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York-based Paulson & Co, led by longtime gold bull John Paulson, kept its stake in gold investments during the fourth quarter of 2017, while other heavyweights including Soros Fund Management LLC, Jana Partners LLC and Caxton Corp all ... More »
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) in New York, U.S., February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors sucked $23.9 billion out of the stock market during the latest week, marking the largest wit... More »
FILE PHOTO – The logo of Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is seen on top of the company’s headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan on March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo HONG KONG (Reuters) – Foxconn, one of Apple’s main suppli... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors cashed out of cash funds and stocked up on stocks in the latest week, ignoring a setback in markets and taking on more risk, Lipper data showed on Thursday. Relatively low-risk money-market funds recorded $26 billion in... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. technology stock funds took in more cash in the week ended Jan. 24 than in any week since the turn-of-the-century bubble, Lipper said on Thursday, offering further evidence that investors’ wariness about markets has given way to exube... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors pulled $3.1 billion from high-yield “junk” bonds during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, offering new warning signs about risk appetite despite global markets’ continuing triumph. The junk bond withdrawa... More »
FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen in the Canary Wharf financial district in London, Britain, November 11, 2013. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Prospects that business investment in Britain will strengthen this year have been dealt an early blow b... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors’ appetite for risk was on display this week as U.S.-based equity mutual funds attracted $1.45 billion of net inflows, their third straight week of inflows, and U.S.-based equity exchange-traded funds attracted $10.6 billion, acco... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors sitting on U.S. stock returns need a place to put the money, and the big winners are international markets and high-rated debt issuers from corporations to governments. U.S. fund investors pulled $8.4 billion from stocks and funn... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S.-based equity funds posted $22.2 billion of outflows in the week ended Dec. 20, the largest cash withdrawals for 2017, according to Lipper data on Thursday. U.S.-based equity mutual funds posted $12.2 billion of outflows in the week en... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Sudan’s president is wanted for crimes against humanity, the economy has lost much of its oil output and the government is in arrears with the IMF. And yet Osama Faisal’s target of boosting foreign investment tenfold is not quite as daunting... More »
A BMW 740i is parked via a remote control key fob by company representative Paul Daman during a demonstration of various brands of self-driving cars on Capitol Hill in Washington March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron BERLIN (Reuters) – German luxury automaker B... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors pulled $16.2 billion from U.S.-based equity funds during the latest week, according to Lipper on Thursday, marking the largest withdrawals since December 2016. Taxable-bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds recorded $1.2 bil... More »
Undated handout photo of the Beyond Meat burger. REUTERS/Beyond Meat/Handout (Reuters) – Tyson Foods (TSN.N), the largest U.S. meat processor, said on Thursday it slightly raised its stake in plant-based protein maker Beyond Meat as it looks to tap growing dem... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S.-based stock ETFs attracted $14.6 billion of inflows in the week ended Wednesday, their 10th consecutive week of inflows and the largest since June, illustrating investors’ appetite for low-cost exposure to record-high stock markets. R... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S.-based stock ETFs attracted $14.6 billion of inflows in the week ended Wednesday, their 10th consecutive week of inflows and the largest since June, illustrating investors’ appetite for low-cost exposure to record-high stock markets. R... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors poured $33 billion into U.S.-based money market funds during the week ended Nov. 29, the largest inflows of 2017, Lipper data showed on Thursday, in a sign that investors might be sensing an end to the equity market’s marathon ra... More »
China issued guidelines on Monday aimed at boosting private investment in manufacturing, including stepping up fiscal support and "innovative financing" for private firms to gear towards greener development and move up the value chain. More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. fund investors walloped high-yield funds with their biggest week of withdrawals since March, Lipper data showed on Thursday. The junk bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $4.4 billion in net withdrawals during the... More »
China's October property sales and new construction starts fell in October as the property market cooled from a two-year boom in the face of a tighter liquidity environment and a crackdown on riskier lending. More »
Bitcoin, whose value has fluctuated significantly this month, remains a "speculative" investment that thrives because of the cryptocurrency's anonymous nature, BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) Chief Executive Larry Fink said on Monday. More »
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Cracks in the red-hot U.S. high-yield bond market are starting to widen, with two junk-rated companies pulling their deals on Friday and U.S.-based high-yield funds suffering their second consecutive week of cash withdrawals. More »
U.S. investors favored international stock markets, pushing $4.1 billion into equity funds focused abroad during the most recent week, dodging risks at home, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
Reluctant investors warmed to stocks in October, stockpiling $19.3 billion in U.S.-based equity funds, marking the first month of positive inflows for the funds since May, when they took in $31.8 billion, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
Companies may have new grounds to keep shareholder proposals on social or ethical matters from coming to a vote at their annual meetings under guidance published late on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More »
Investors endured jolts to both stocks and bonds, pouring even more cash into funds tracking both markets during the latest week, according to Lipper data released on Thursday. More »
U.S. fund investors regained an appetite for risk over the last week, rushing into U.S. and emerging-market stocks, according to data on Thursday from Lipper. More »
Fidelity Investments is testing virtual reality technology to train customer service representatives in its call centers across the United States. More »
U.S. fund investors stopped resisting the festive mood in equity markets and joined the party, pouring cash into domestic stocks for the first time in six weeks, according to Lipper data on Thursday. More »
The Trump administration's highly anticipated tax plan spurred modest flows into funds that profit from higher interest rates and inflation, Lipper data showed on Thursday, but that resurgent "Trump trade" did not boost stocks. More »
U.S. fund investors gorged on gold and traded stocks for cash during the latest week, showing caution even as markets trend higher, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
U.S.-based taxable-bond funds took in $7 billion during the latest week, the largest weekly intake since July, adding to an already strong year for debt against the backdrop of a rate-hiking cycle, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
U.S. fund investors sought shelter during the latest week, pouring more than double the amount from the previous week into money markets, and stockpiling the most in "safe haven" Treasuries in more than a year, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
