Tax credit for tech investors could triple under proposed New Jersey bill
TRENTON, N.J. — A new bill introduced in the New Jersey Senate would triple the state’s tax credit for investments in emerging technology startups, aiming to stimulate early-stage funding in smaller high-tech…
Russia prepares decree to unfreeze and swap assets with foreign investors
By Alexander Marrow (Reuters) – Russian authorities are working on a draft presidential decree to give the country’s retail investors a way to unblock their frozen assets held in overseas accounts and…
Goldman Sachs sees room for investors to grow more bullish on US stocks
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – The sharp increase in investor equity allocations to U.S. stocks since the start of the year still has room to expand before breaching historical norms,…
Pet-food maker Freshpet appoints activist investor’s director nominee to board
(Reuters) – Pet food company Freshpet Inc said on Monday it has reached an agreement with Jana Partners and appointed Timothy McLevish, one of the activist investor’s director nominees, to its board.…
Furious Chinese investors lodge complaints over trust firm’s missed payments
BEIJING (Reuters) – Angry investors in trust products of a leading Chinese shadow bank have lodged complaint letters with regulators, pleading with the authorities to step in after the big Chinese trust…
Analysis-China’s crackdowns rewrite investors’ private sector playbook
By Samuel Shen and Summer Zhen SHANGHAI/HONGKONG (Reuters) – Buy the state, sell the capitalist – that’s how global investors are trying to play China’s latest anti-graft crackdowns as they see private…
China investors jump into municipal bonds, hopes of state support outweigh debt woes
By Li Gu and Tom Westbrook SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s promise of a “comprehensive” package to address local debt issues has triggered a rush into bonds issued by local government financing vehicles…
Investors least bearish since February 2022 – BofA
MILAN (Reuters) – Sentiment among global investors improved in August to its least bearish since February 2022 with cash allocations falling to a 21-month low, a Bank of America survey showed on…
Investors pummeled by tech in 2022 make new bets on sector in second quarter
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Several investment managers whose performance was pummeled when technology stocks skidded lower last year put fresh money into the handful of companies that are pulling…
Analysis-Big losses in Russia-linked stocks have investors rethinking other depositary receipts
By Sinead Cruise and Carolina Mandl LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global investors are losing confidence in securities linked to shares of companies in the world’s geopolitical hot spots, investors and analysts said,…
Prominent investors rekindle affection for Amazon in Q2 as stock price jumps
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Several prominent investors including hedge fund Baupost Group and mutual fund giant Fidelity bought or increased their holdings in retailer Amazon.com during the second quarter…
Analysis-Moody’s warning on US banks a wake-up call for sanguine investors
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – The slide in U.S. bank stocks this week appeared to catch traders in the options market by surprise, data shows, raising…
Are Chinese houses for speculation now? Property investors say no
By Liangping Gao, Ella Cao and Marius Zaharia BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shanghai businesswoman Kate Ren might have hoped that after Chinese leaders removed the slogan “houses are for living, not for…
Investors bet on state-backed developers as Chinese property begins recovery
By Li Gu and Summer Zhen SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Investors betting on recovery in China’s battered property sector are favouring the stocks and bonds of state-backed firms that are more likely…
Hedge fund investors hunt credit, equity portfolios
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Big investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies, are willing to increase their allocation to credit and equity hedge funds through the rest of this year, according…
Optimistic investors still buying stocks – BofA
By Samuel Indyk LONDON (Reuters) -Investors continued to buy stock and bond funds in the week to Wednesday, Bank of America global research said in a report on Friday citing EPFR data,…
Paraguay courts Taiwanese investors, warns against China reliance – finance minister
By Daniela Desantis and Lucinda Elliott ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay is seeking more Taiwanese investment to diversify its farm-driven economy focused on exporting raw materials to China, incoming Finance Minister Carlos Fernandez…
Analysis-Hungry investors queue up as Japan’s BOJ lifts yields bit by bit
By Kevin Buckland and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government bond market has turned into a cat-and-mouse arena for investors and the Bank of Japan, as the latter tries to slow…
Analysis-Words only go so far: Investors want property fixed before buying China
By Summer Zhen and Carolina Mandl HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) – For all the excitement whipped up in China’s markets by the Politburo last week, foreign investors say policymakers’ words will have…
Investors still see blue sky ahead for Europe travel stocks as boom abates
By Danilo Masoni MILAN (Reuters) – European travel stocks stumbled into some profit-taking as earnings season kicked off and extreme weather hit in July, but many investors are betting relatively attractive valuations…
Investors bought bonds, stocks and inflation hedges in busy cenbank week-BofA
By Samuel Indyk LONDON (Reuters) – Investors flocked to stocks and bonds in the week to Wednesday, Bank of America global research said in a report on Friday citing EPFR data. Ahead…
Analysis-US bond investors brace for shift in market as rate peak elusive
By Davide Barbuscia and David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. bond investors were gauging how to navigate a prolonged period of higher interest rates that some expect to weigh on U.S.…
Meme stocks surge as tech rally gets too pricey for retail investors
By Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) – Meme stocks have surged in the last few weeks as retail investors shun pricier stocks for cheaper speculative names, but some experts worry that this could…
Europe’s factories are slowing but no one has told cyclical stock investors
By Lucy Raitano LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone manufacturing activity is deteriorating fast, as evidenced by Monday’s Purchasing Managers surveys, and yet European cyclical stocks are on a tear versus their defensive…
Boeing investors to scrutinize cost of new Spirit AeroSystems labor deal
By Valerie Insinna WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing executives will face hard questions from investors about whether a recent labor deal reached by Spirit AeroSystems could raise aircraft production costs when the U.S.…
Analysis-China’s pitch to foreign investors falls flat as incentives dwindle
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China is struggling to revive foreign investment in its financially battered cities and provinces as foreign firms remain wary of political risks and new incentives fall…
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