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China’s 2022 industrial output expected to have grown 3.6% y/y

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s industrial output is expected to have grown 3.6% in 2022 from the previous year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Wednesday, despite production and logistics disruptions from COVID-19 curbs. The output of the manufacturing sector is estimated to have risen 3.1% last year, accounting for 28% of …

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ECB’s Villeroy sees rate hikes at a ‘pragmatic pace’ in coming months

PARIS (Reuters) – Interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank will need to come at a “pragmatic pace” in the coming months, French ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday. After raising interest rates by 2.5 percentage points in five months, they had reached a level where they neither fuel inflation nor …

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BlackRock’s iShares flows top Vanguard’s ETFs, fixed income on the up

By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – BlackRock’s iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs) gained more net flows than Vanguard’s ETFs last year, according to estimates from industry tracker Morningstar, putting the world’s biggest asset manager in the lead for the first time since 2019. BlackRock and Vanguard are the world’s two biggest asset managers as …

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Analysis-With banks’ results on tap, options traders prepare for volatility

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Options traders are bracing for volatility in U.S. bank shares days ahead of an earnings season many believe will bring lower profits and reflect worries over an expected recession. Current market positioning signals a gloomy outlook: The one-month moving average of open puts on the Financial Select …

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Macro hedge funds end 2022 on high, many others lose big, investors say

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Some hedge funds that bet on macroeconomic trends boasted eye-popping double and even triple digit gains for 2022, investors said, while other prominent firms that were long on technology stocks got clobbered with deep losses in volatile markets. Rokos Capital, run by Chris Rokos and one of a handful …

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Storms bring mudslides, evacuations to California with more rain forecast

By Jorge Garcia LA CONCHITA, Calif. (Reuters) – The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides cut off highways and entire communities faced evacuation orders. More than 33 million Californians were threatened by severe weather throughout the day …

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