Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pakistan has scrapped plans for a new tax on banks’ profits on government debt, just days before a critical deadline and following a backlash from lenders. The proposed levy was intended to boost the south … Read more
Analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) are the second group to say that the returns generated from catastrophe reinsurance risk underwriting and capital allocation can remain strong, just so long as the industry remains disciplined on attachments, terms and conditions.It’s taken a while for it to become clearer that the real driver of the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s Nomura said profits more than doubled in its latest quarter, to their highest point in four years, a day after the bank’s chief executive took a pay cut as he accepted accountability for a … Read more
Microsoft reported quarterly earnings that impressed investors and showed how resilient the company is even as it spends heavily on AI. Some investors have been uneasy about the company’s aggressive spending on AI, while others have demanded it. During this quarter, Microsoft reported that it spent $20 billion on capital expenditures, nearly double what it … Read more
Mainland-listed firms reported a collective decline in revenue for the second quarter, due partly to a weak home economic system, although some veteran analysts imagine progress might resume within the ultimate interval of the yr. Income for the 5,350 firms buying and selling on the Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen inventory exchanges fell 1.5 per cent … Read more
