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5 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Marcus Ashworth |Stuart Trow
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 04: 'For Sale' and 'To Let' signs stand outside a housing estate on February 04, 2025 in South London, England. Financial analysts are predicting that interest rates will be cut when the Bank of England delivers its next interest rate decision on February 6, making borrowing cheaper for British households. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Something weird is happening to the London property market.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Marcus Ashworth
A screen displays the rate of the yen against the US dollar, top left, and other currencies outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Shares in Asia rebounded after posting a historic loss, as Japan led gains on expectations that it will get priority in US trade talks. Treasuries gained after Monday's sharp selloff.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Lionel Laurent |Marcus Ashworth
Tariff-driven market chaos is the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end. The US is the closest thing to a global superpower we have. And that means when its leaders are in the grip of excessive overconfidence — similar to that seen in the UK’s 2022 Liz Truss meltdown — everyone, not just America, pays the price. In the case of the current tariff-driven market sell-off, the full extent is now only starting to become clear.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Marcus Ashworth
Don't be fooled by the rally in sterling and the euro — the biggest for the single currency in almost a decade. What their sudden strength reveals more is the angst that has sent dollar assets tumbling than any outburst of optimism. But if the US economy takes a nosedive from Donald Trump's live experiment on trade, then there is going to be a much bigger reordering of the global economy. It's important not to confuse gains in the euro, for instance, as a sign of economic strength.
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3 weeks ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Marcus Ashworth |Stuart Trow
The easiest way of avoiding a transaction tax is not to transact. So one of the few things we can say with any great certainty about April 1’s stamp duty increase, as the UK’s property purchase levy is known, is that it will likely reduce the number of property transactions. The levy will now be imposed on all properties from as low as £125,000 ($162,000), halving from £250,000.
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Brave timing for this attempt at a bit of sanity perspective. Big auctions of 10-yr US Treasuries tonight, with 30-yr long bonds on Thursday not great timing as leveraged basis trades against futures are seeing a mass unwind https://t.co/l0Vn7nVOKG via @opinion
Look Mum we can handle a global financial crisis without the Fed put! We'll see how long that lasts, sunbeam @LionelRALaurent and @marcusashworth https://t.co/xbhS2G8Tej via @opinion
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