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Ken Griffin Has Another Money Machine to Rival His Hedge Fund

NEW YORK (Capital Markets in Africa) – Citadel Securities is sometimes dismissively referred to as “Citadel’s trading arm” — seen as a forgotten backwater of Ken Griffin’s hedge fund empire, where quants toil on complex algorithms to arbitrage tiny differences in stock prices or calculate bid-ask spreads for Treasuries. It’s much more than that. The market-making firm, which is actually separate from Griffin’s hedge fund, generated $3.5 billion of revenue last year — more than the…

Pelosi Balances Impeachment and USMCA With Eye on 2020 Elections

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NEW YORK (Capital Markets in Africa) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled off a delicate political maneuver by announcing in quick succession articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as well as the delivery of a trade deal that’s one of his highest priorities. The seemingly conflicting turn of events in the space of a single hour on Tuesday illustrates the political landscape Pelosi faces heading into the 2020 election year that will decide control…

What Corbyn Stands For and Why He Spooks Markets: QuickTake

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Jeremy Corbyn is a controversial leader even in his own party. The man seeking to dethrone Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister has been criticized for failing to tackle racism in the Labour Party and for moving it too far to the left. He has also won support for radical plans to combat climate change and a raft of populist policies, some a throwback to 1970s-style socialism, including re-nationalizing…

The EU Hopes Boris Johnson Wins Big to Get Brexit Over With

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Here’s something European officials are loath to admit in public: They would quite like Boris Johnson to triumph in U.K. elections. Despite personal and political differences and a lingering lack of trust, those close to EU chiefs privately acknowledge that a strong Johnson victory on Dec. 12 will mean the U.K.’s long-drawn-out departure from the European Union will finally happen, according to more than half a dozen EU officials speaking on condition of…

Pound Drops From 8-Month High as Tory Lead Shrinks in Key Poll

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – The pound fell from an eight-month high after a poll that successfully predicted the 2017 vote suggested the Conservative party will win a smaller majority than earlier predicted in Thursday’s election. Sterling slid as much as 0.4% after the YouGov poll indicated Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s party will gain a majority of 28, compared with 68 projected two weeks ago. Currency markets were already jittery ahead of a number of risk events in…

The Voting Tactics That Could Cost Boris Johnson His Majority

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – He was Tony Blair’s ultra-loyal spin doctor in the era of New Labour. But in this week’s U.K. election, Alistair Campbell is calling on voters to back the rival Liberal Democrats — all because of Brexit. “Voting Labour will just help the Tories,” Campbell wrote in a leaflet to electors in the district of Wokingham, a small town 40 miles west of London where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are vying to…

Boris Johnson’s Lead Cut in Key Forecast Ahead of U.K. Election

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lead in Britain’s general election was slashed by more than half in a hotly anticipated opinion poll released two days before the vote. The pound fell as much 0.4% on the news. The Tories will win 339 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, Labour 231, the Scottish National Party 41, and the Liberal Democrats 15, according to a YouGov forecast on Tuesday. If the research…

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