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Brexit vote a ‘risky bet’: US ex-treasury secretaries

  Bloomberg Leaving the European Union would be a “risky bet” for the U.K. and the country should not “turn inward,” according to eight former U.S. Treasury secretaries going back to the era of President Richard Nixon. The intervention in a letter to the Times newspaper in London published on Wednesday came two days before U.S. President Barack Obama is ...

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Russia wins $50bn ruling in decade-old fight with Yukos

  Bloomberg Russia succeeded in its battle to overturn a $50 billion arbitration ruling after a Dutch court ruled that the panel of judges who issued the record-setting award to the former owners of Yukos Oil Co. had no right to review the dispute. The ruling by a court in the Hague on Wednesday was a sweeping victory for the ...

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Argentina in junk bond spree as emerging issuers line up

  Bloomberg Argentina’s blockbuster $16.5 billion bond sale is opening up the floodgates for junk-rated issuers in developing countries. The Latin American country’s return to global capital markets for the first time since its 2001 default brought high-yield issuance from emerging markets to $18 billion this week. That’s more than the previous 11 weeks combined, and money managers from Aviva ...

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