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Banks are risking launching their first QT sales.Nils Platley

T.The Bank of England really seemed to mean it when it said it would start selling virgin seed at the end of the month under its Quantitative Tightening (QT) program. There is a one day delay due to the bank. The prime minister will unveil his full medium-term financial plan on October 31st. But Threadneedle Street says it’s going to. Press the QT button on November 1st.

Of course, there was already one postponement, so the desire to continue working is understandable. It happened on September 28th when the bank was diverted. Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budgetGilt yields soared, wreaking havoc on pension funds and posing a threat to the UK’s financial stability. Instead of being the seller, the bank became the temporary buyer of the £19bn coin.

The promise of a return to Plan A on Halloween sounded more hopeful than hopeful at the time, but today it’s not without its risks.It’s certainly premature to ring All Clear in the sow market just because Jeremy Hunt kills Trasonomics On the weekend. His 4.3% yield on his 30-year gold coin on Tuesday is far better than the 5.1% at the height of the crisis, while before Kwarten’s financial event he was at 3.8%. If it looks calm, it’s a source of anxiety.

Hunt’s month-end announcement is a potentially market-moving event. One of his key questions is whether investors will find his spending cuts credible. This time we’ll (finally) have numbers from the Office of Budget Responsibility to Frame Thought but there’s no guarantee that everything will go smoothly Banks needless when he pitches up at his first QT sale the next day adding significant risk.

Yes, it would have been a little embarrassing to announce another postponement. But it’s also a safety-first approach. Minimize the risk of further explosions.

CMA wins handclaps gif

Think of it as a victory for the triumphant British competition regulators over the massive legitimate battalion of Silicon Valley giants. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) told Facebook owner Meta, sell jiffy It is a rare case of a British agency objecting to the acquisition of another US company by one US company.

On one level, scrap was utterly insignificant. Because the gifs that Giphy trades are nonsense animations of online meme peddlers, rapidly become obsoleteAt its core, however, there was a serious competitive problem. One company is how much he can control the £7 billion UK display advertising market.

With Giphy onboard, CMA said: meta By cutting off the supply of GIFs to rivals, it could increase its “already significant market power” or demand more data about its users. After a $290m acquisition, it was binning ad offers for US companies that were cut short before a possible simultaneous launch in the UK.

Early in this feud, Meta £50.5m fine collected For violating the CMA’s “First Enforcement Order” – an instruction not to impair the outcome by effectively consolidating operations. Now we have to say goodbye to Giphy. Admittedly, it’s not a game changer. Mark Zuckerberg and his men will be a little frustrated, but the unspoken message that the UK regulator is ready to take on a difficult case in his global social media industry cannot be applauded. increase. It should be, but it wasn’t always in the past.

false foundation stone

first crime committed by THG I was against English. “QIA was an existing shareholder and was the basis for THG’s initial public offering…” The online retailer said it invented a verb that shouldn’t have been invented.

The second was something that defied common sense.of Stock purchase by QIA, or the Qatar Investment Authority, is “a positive endorsement for the UK as a whole,” claimed its chief executive Matthew Moulding. Now, the sovereign fund is about to acquire from his SoftBank in Japan. SoftBank, once billed by THG as a superior partner for online adventures, has a huge loss of £450m. Similarly, SoftBank’s withdrawal could be described as a vote of no confidence in the UK.

In fact, both interpretations miss the point. Two foreign investors have differing views on THG, a bizarre beauty and nutrition business whose stock has fallen 90% since its overhyped listing in 2020. Not UK plc.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2022/oct/18/bank-is-taking-a-risk-in-cracking-on-with-first-qt-sale Banks are risking launching their first QT sales.Nils Platley

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