Traders react as government shutdown is averted

An against-the-odds deal to avert a U.S. shutdown is soothing nerves across Wall Street after a week of interest rate-spurred market disruptions.  While money managers largely shrugged off the political circus in Washington, the passage of compromise legislation to keep the government running until Nov. 17 gives financial markets some breathing room...

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Investors brace for severe US office crash

Office prices in the U.S. are due for a crash, and the commercial real estate market faces at least another nine months of declines, according to Bloomberg’s latest Markets Live Pulse survey. About two-thirds of the 919 respondents surveyed by Bloomberg believe that the U.S. office market will only rebound after a severe collapse. An even...

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Fund managers face disrupted flows into EU amid ESG overhaul

Asset managers selling funds into the European Union risk having client flows “meaningfully” disrupted as regulators in the bloc consider a major overhaul of ESG investing rules, according to analysts at Barclays Plc. The EU Commission opened the door to a wholesale review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation last month, when...

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