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Hungary unveils windfall taxes, $6.1b in spending cuts

  Bloomberg Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used his emergency powers to publish decrees on a sweeping set of windfall taxes and to order about $6.1 billion in spending cuts for this year and next. The measures, which will hit industries from banking to energy and airlines to telecommunications, underscore the extent of the budget imbalance that has spooked investors ...

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European chip stocks crumble as investors fast forward to ’23

  Bloomberg European semiconductor stocks have gotten swept up in the sell-everything-tech environment even as the industry enjoys red-hot demand that’s bolstering this year’s earnings, because investors are already looking ahead to a tougher 2023. The region’s biggest chip-related companies, ASML Holding NV and Infineon Technologies AG, have lost a quarter of their value this year and are trading at ...

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Australian bank stocks take $32bn hit on rate concerns

Bloomberg Bank stocks down under have seen about $32 billion of market capitalisation erased this week on growing concerns that faster monetary policy tightening might increase housing-market risks and pressure valuations. Shares of the country’s four largest lenders will struggle to outperform given elevated price-earnings ratios and downside risks from the macro-economy, UBS Group AG analyst John Storey wrote in ...

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