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Time to stop taking investors hostage

More than three years after the Brexit referendum left investors with $23 billion trapped in seven UK real estate funds, holders of another property portfolio have discovered that when their right to daily redemptions meets the reality of hard-to-sell assets, their money can become a hostage to illiquidity. M&G Plc last week said it’s freezing a 2.5 billion-pound ($3.3 billion) ...

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The case for QE in India is getting stronger

With India’s nominal GDP growing at its slowest pace in 17 years, it’s a given that the central bank will cut interest rates again. What’s the point, though? Commercial bank lending rates have turned immune to monetary policy, so much so that a sixth reduction this year in the benchmark price of money will make hardly any difference. The only ...

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Troubled Hong Kong Airlines given reprieve by regulator

Bloomberg Hong Kong Airlines Ltd. averted becoming the first carrier to collapse in the city in more than a decade after the local licensing authority said it won’t take further action against the embattled company on certain conditions. To keep its license, the airline must ensure it has a cash injection at a level determined by Air Transport Licensing Authority, ...

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