Financial Times - 25.08.2026

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📍 英国及英联邦 (United Kingdom & Commonwealth)

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Newspapers - 25.08.2026
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“瑞士制造”的成功故事能否持久?

  • 2026年8月25日 / 英国(独联体)爱尔兰共和国 / “瑞士制造”的成功故事能否持久? / “瑞士制造”的成功故事能否持久?:2026年8月25日,英国《金融时报》关注“瑞士制造”品牌的长期发展。报道指出,该品牌在爱尔兰共和国等地的市场表现备受关注。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 伊朗及其盟友面临经济D日 / 伊朗及其盟友面临经济D日:伊朗及其盟友正面临严峻的经济挑战,斯科特·贝瑟姆在报道中分析了当前局势。伊朗与盟友的经济压力持续加剧,可能引发重大变局。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 伯纳姆出访基辅 / 伯纳姆出访基辅:英国首相伯纳姆访问基辅,与乌克兰总统泽连斯基会晤。双方签署技术分享伙伴关系协议,英国将获取乌克兰战场数据用于训练60个模型打击俄罗斯目标。俄罗斯对此强烈不满。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 基辅扩大袭击 / 基辅扩大袭击:基辅当局宣布扩大对俄罗斯目标的袭击行动。详细报道见第4页。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 总统对邻国渥太华的强硬立场感到愤怒 / 总统对邻国渥太华的强硬立场感到愤怒:加拿大总统对美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提高对加拿大汽车及零部件关税至50%的决定感到愤怒。北美贸易战升级,谈判破裂后局势恶化。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 政府寻求修改法律以阻止企业从高风险供应商采购 / 政府寻求修改法律以阻止企业从高风险供应商采购:英国政府计划修改法律,要求能源、医疗和电信等关键行业企业加强网络安全。此举旨在应对伊朗相关黑客组织对小型天然气工厂的攻击。新权力将允许政府在威胁成形前采取行动。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 美国财政部长对与伊朗交易的国家设定期限 / 美国财政部长对与伊朗交易的国家设定期限:美国财政部长詹姆斯·波洛蒂宣布,对与伊朗进行交易的国家设定期限。此举旨在限制伊朗的经济活动。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 政府转向卫星用于改善天气、战争、农作物和牲畜的数据 / 政府转向卫星用于改善天气、战争、农作物和牲畜的数据:非洲国家在太空项目上投入超过4亿美元,非洲联盟成立非洲航天局。卫星技术帮助非洲国家收集天气、战争、农作物和牲畜等数据,提升政府决策能力。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 沙特阿拉伯寻求战争和政治风险保险计划 / 沙特阿拉伯寻求战争和政治风险保险计划:沙特阿拉伯与伦敦保险经纪商磋商国家支持的战争和政治风险保险计划。该计划可能为该地区船只提供高达4870英镑/吨的商业保险。沙特再保险公司等将组建再保险集团。
  • 2026年8月25日 / UWM蒙受600亿美元损失并获12亿美元注资 / UWM蒙受600亿美元损失并获12亿美元注资:美国最大抵押贷款发放机构之一UWM因利率下降蒙受600亿美元损失,并与奥克特龙资本管理公司达成12亿美元注资协议。公司股价下跌30%,自2025年上市以来累计下跌近90%。
  • 2026年8月25日 / FTSE EuroFirst指数表现 / FTSE EuroFirst指数表现:2025年7月24日至8月24日期间,多国股指表现各异。澳大利亚All Ordinaries指数上涨0.51%,奥地利ATX指数上涨2.95%,巴西Bovespa指数上涨0.89%。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 英镑/欧元汇率及股票涨跌 / 英镑/欧元汇率及股票涨跌:英镑对欧元汇率上涨,多只股票如Playtech、Pollen Street Group等上涨。CMC Market、Goodwin等股票下跌。布伦特原油价格上涨。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 数字信息服务与科技股表现 / 数字信息服务与科技股表现:数字信息服务板块整体下跌2.07%,媒体板块下跌8.78%。科技股中智能手机板块上涨41.66%,科技硬件与设备板块上涨40.30%。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 英国股票收盘价与涨跌幅 / 英国股票收盘价与涨跌幅:多只英国股票收盘价及涨跌幅数据显示,ATC Music Group下跌,Mendell Helium上涨6.60%,Braunus Solutions下跌4.83%。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 爱丁堡国际艺术节主题 / 爱丁堡国际艺术节主题:爱丁堡国际艺术节主题为美国独立250周年。节目包括歌剧《再次在美国》和戏剧《Hang Time》,后者通过三名黑人男子的对话探讨美国社会问题。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 洛克比空难370人死亡 / 洛克比空难370人死亡:1946年12月21日,泛美航空103号班机在苏格兰洛克比上空坠毁,造成370人死亡。美国法院将首次审判嫌疑人。受害者家属期待审判揭示真相。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 亚洲艺术的实物研究项目 / 亚洲艺术的实物研究项目:伦敦大学亚非学院与大英博物馆、维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆合作,提供亚洲艺术硕士、研究生文凭等课程。联系方式:Asianart@soas.ac.uk。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 英国政府效率低下与税收负担 / 英国政府效率低下与税收负担:英国政府效率低下,税收负担创历史新高。原因包括金融危机后削减支出而非提高税收,以及经济增长停滞导致支出占GDP比重上升。
  • 2026年8月25日 / 乳清蛋白需求激增与价格上涨 / 乳清蛋白需求激增与价格上涨:乳清蛋白因减肥和运动需求激增,价格大幅上涨。美国乳清库存降至三年前一半,欧洲价格翻倍。制造商扩大生产但面临监管挑战。

暂无制度批判分析。

暂无情感辩证分析。


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⚖️ 理性与情感辩证深度研判 ➔ 立即阅读

解构冰冷制度治理(Logos)与民众真实痛感/集体情绪(Pathos)之间的断裂与隐性诉求。

Financial Times - 25.08.2026.pdf

《金融时报》

2026年8月25日,星期二

英国(独联体)爱尔兰共和国 4×10

“瑞士制造”的成功故事能否持久?

必读:第10页

伊朗及其盟友面临经济D日

斯科特·贝瑟姆:第27页

导弹锁定

伯纳姆出访基辅

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基昨天在基辅迎接伯纳姆。在其首次出访乌克兰的重要任务中,伯纳姆承诺加强乌克兰的导弹技术,授权公开“风暴影”导弹英国版的机密信息(即法国版“风暴影”导弹)。

两国领导人还签署了一项技术分享伙伴关系,根据该协议,英国将成为首个获取乌克兰战场数据的外国,这些数据用于训练60个模型以识别并打击俄罗斯目标。

此举引发莫斯科强烈不满,俄罗斯发言人德米特里·费斯科夫表示,俄方对此“极其负面”回应。

伯纳姆表示:“尽管俄罗斯对我们国家发出了无理威胁,我们将继续支持乌克兰。”

战场数据与分享 详见第3页 基辅扩大袭击 详见第4页

特朗普承诺将加拿大汽车关税提高至50% 贸易谈判破裂后总统大发雷霆

总统对邻国渥太华的强硬立场感到愤怒 决心反击 汽车行业发出痛苦警告

MYLES MCGOONNCE — 华盛顿 SUN GINSBURY — 多伦多 EANA SHEEART — 伦敦

唐纳德·特朗普表示,他将把对加拿大汽车及零部件的关税提高至50%,随着北美两个邻国之间的贸易战在谈判破裂后激化。

在昨天的一则社交媒体帖文中,这位美国总统表示,汽车产品将从明年1月1日起面临更高关税,而现有钢铁关税将维持相同税率。

"加拿大将不再被视为‘小兄弟’!"特朗普在其"贸易社交"平台上写道。"在贸易方面,以及其他方面,他们也是世界上最难对付的国家之一。他们被惯坏了,然而,我们不需要加拿大,他们需要我们。"

此举发生在周末新一轮美国对价值2.5亿加元加拿大商品征收关税的谈判破裂之后,在经历数月缓和后重新引发两国贸易战。

谈判在周五午夜截止期限前不久破裂,加拿大官员表示,美国方面要求渥太华限制其缔结其他贸易协议的能力,令盟友关系跌至冰点。

加拿大总理贾斯汀·杜鲁道周六表示,华盛顿方面"计算错误",并决定"针锋相对"地匹配美国的额外关税,他补充道:"当你受到攻击时,就是战争,而我们正在受到攻击。"

美国贸易代表詹特森·格里尔昨天表示,美国方面曾试图通过将钢铝关税减半、降低汽车和锅炉关税来"照顾加拿大人"。

加拿大是美国第二大贸易伙伴,仅次于墨西哥。加拿大钢铁已面临50%的边境关税。渥太华方面曾寻求将这一税率削减至25%。美国对加拿大汽车零部件征收25%的关税。

自2020年美国、墨西哥和加拿大达成贸易协议以来,福特、通用汽车和斯泰兰蒂斯等三大汽车制造商以及国际竞争对手大举投资于在北美建立一体化供应链,零部件在车辆组装前会多次跨越边境。特朗普宣布后,福特和斯泰兰蒂斯的股价在纽约早盘交易中下跌约4%,通用汽车下跌逾2%。

加拿大财政部长弗朗索瓦-菲利普·尚帕涅昨天表示,加拿大正在捍卫其文化和经济主权。"我对我们的工人、经济和产业充满信心,因为基本面很强劲,"他说。

总部位于多伦多的贸易律师马克·沃纳警告称,长期不确定性将"降低"对加拿大汽车行业的投资。"数月的不确定性将伤害加拿大汽车产业,"他说。"这将抑制投资。特朗普知道他在做什么。这些关税甚至无需生效,就能产生毁灭性影响。"

加拿大汽车零部件制造商协会主席弗洛林·沃尔普表示,美国汽车制造商也将受到伤害。"美国对加拿大汽车零部件征收关税将由美国汽车组装商承担,"他说。"没有这些特定零件,整个美国的汽车组装将陷入停顿。"

纽约报道:乔治·斯塔尔 纽约报道:迈克尔·斯特雷恩 第21页

简报

  • 英国合作伙伴的私募市场推动令瑞银紧张 瑞银已讨论超负荷管理一只与世界银行等机构合作的8500万英镑可持续金融基金,同时对英国投资伙伴Records的私募产品表达担忧。 ——《第1页》

  • 唐宁街稀释住房计划 伯纳姆已拨出英国工党3500万英镑社会保障与经济适用房计划中的首笔3.5亿英镑,主要用于住房协会,未能完全实现其市政住房目标。 ——《第1页》

  • 泰晤士水务重组 这家陷入困境的公用事业公司的债权人计划在政府允许其接管业务时任命4名新董事,同时寻求避免国有化。 ——《第10页》

  • 竞购者瞄准壳牌资产 该石油巨头已吸引包括埃克森美孚和利安德巴塞尔在内的潜在竞购者对其美国金融资产表达兴趣,旨在剥离运营中的表现不佳部分。 ——《第4页》

  • “税率专家”关注酒吧 英国财政部正引入资深商业税率专家jury's harder,以审查酒吧和酒店行业关于被不公平征税的主张,这是最新一项旨在助力城镇中心的举措。

  • 核动力船队在望 华盛顿正与英国集团凯维电力合作,帮助其建造一支核动力商船船队,以挑战中国的造船业主导地位。 ——《第4页,EVOOON BET专版,第9页》

  • 希音下调预期 这家时尚零售商将在下周的香港上市中寻求2.75亿加元估值,较其峰值下降近四分之三,此前其上市尝试因欺诈行为失败。 ——《第1页,EVOOON BET专版,第9页》

  • KPSG在丑闻后裁员 这家四大会计师事务所的澳大利亚业务在裁减员工后,合伙人薪酬降低15%,并表示在审计丑闻后增长可能仍将“受限”。 ——《第8页》

非洲寻求太空解决方案

曾经,能够拯救生命的卫星影像需以高昂代价从垄断市场的西方集团购买。但如今大部分所需设备价格日益可负担,非洲国家正在建立自己的卫星网络,收集从天气、战争到农作物与牲畜的各类数据。目前有20颗卫星在轨,今年将在太空项目上投入8亿加元。分析师称,他们希望拥有数据主权。

Space 1800——《第6页》

新加坡推出每名儿童$55,000育儿补贴以扭转出生率下滑趋势

欧文·沃克(OWEN WALKER) — 新加坡

新加坡推出一揽子措施鼓励民众生育,每名儿童提供超过$55,000的补贴,以应对出生率下滑问题,该国已成为全球出生率下降最快的国家之一。

总理黄循财在年度国庆群众大会演讲中宣布提高儿童津贴和父母育儿假,表示政府旨在“让有意生育的新加坡人更容易成家立业”。

这个城市国家去年登记的生育率为每名女性0.07名儿童,低于2024年的0.97,且低于韩国的0.8。人口学家表示,在没有净移民的情况下,需要2.1的生育率才能维持人口稳定。

出生率下降——加之预期寿命延长——已令新加坡今年有望成为“超老龄化”社会,联合国将其定义为65岁及以上人口占比超过25%的国家。到2030年,预计每四名新加坡人中就有一人达到该标准。

“我们希望每个家庭都能知道,如果你们选择生育,政府将与你们同行,”黄循财表示,“我们将提供更多支持,并延长育儿假。”

黄循财表示,每名儿童将获得近$870,000(63,100 英镑)的直接经济支持,直至17岁。其中包括出生时$810,000的一次性补贴,以及$850,000的教育支持金。

这些措施在现有家庭补贴基础上进一步加强。新的补贴结构提高了支付金额,并将资金分摊至儿童早年,而非仅集中于出生时。

但黄循财警告称,政府能做的仅此而已。许多年轻人为追求经济保障而推迟生育,或决定不再生育。“尽管我们竭力支持家庭,但必须面对现实——总和生育率仍可能远低于世代更替水平,”他说道。

黄循财表示,政府将继续通过移民补充国内人口增长。但这一立场并不总受新加坡公民欢迎,他们常将移民增长与房价上涨和就业竞争加剧联系在一起。

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股票市场

8月24日 / 前值 / 涨跌% ------ / --------- / ------ / ------- 标普500 / 7659.74 / 7674.37 / -0.19 纳斯达克综合指数 / 26085.45 / 26180.45 / -0.36 道琼斯工业平均指数 / 53392.69 / 5327.01 / 0.22 欧洲斯托克50 / 6447.98 / 6462.22 / -0.22 FTSEurofirst 300 / 2615.48 / 2614.74 / 0.03 富时100指数 / 10854.32 / 10816.56 / 0.35 富时全股指数 / 5850.42 / 5832.63 / 0.30 法国CAC40指数 / 8453.01 / 8484.43 / -0.37 德国DAX指数 / 26106.60 / 26136.56 / -0.11 日经225指数 / 65528.09 / 66016.36 / -0.74 恒生指数 / 25517.33 / 26009.46 / -1.89 MSCI世界指数 / 4978.00 / 4977.00 / 0.02 MSCI新兴市场指数 / 1713.20 / 1698.00 / 0.90 MSCI ACWI指数 / 1148.60 / 1146.90 / 0.15

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全球市场

货币对 / 8月24日 / 前值 / 货币对 / 8月24日 / 前值 ------- / --------- / ------ / ------- / --------- / ------ 美元 / 英镑 / 1.167 / 1.168 / 欧元 / 美元 / 0.857 / 0.856 美元 / 英镑 / 1.363 / 1.364 / 英镑 / 美元 / 0.733 英镑 / 0.856 / 欧元 / 英镑 / 1.169 / 1.168 日元 / 美元 / 159.195 / 158.900 / 日元 / 欧元 / 185.717 / 185.603 日元 / 英镑 / 217.054 / 216.803 / 英镑指数 / 85.896 / 85.92 瑞士法郎 / 英镑 / 0.936 / 0.935 / 瑞士法郎 / 英镑 / 1.094 / 1.092

加密货币

8月24日 / 前值 / 涨跌% ------ / --------- / ------ / ------- 比特币 / 79148.08 / 77195.69 / 2.53 以太坊 / 2489.04 / 2393.56 / 3.99

WTI原油 / 83.00 / 85.16 / -2.54 布伦特原油 / 92.42 / 94.13 / -1.82 黄金 / 4648.08 / 4614.57 / 0.73

国债收益率

期限 / 8月24日 / 前值 / 涨跌 ------ / --------- / ------ 美国2年期 / 4.23 / 4.19 / 0.04 美国10年期 / 4.68 / 4.69 / -0.01 美国30年期 / 5.22 / 5.24 / -0.02 英国2年期 / 4.37 / 4.36 / 0.01 英国10年期 / 5.05 / 5.06 / -0.01 英国30年期 / 5.78 / 5.80 / -0.02 日本2年期 / 1.65 / 0.00 日本10年期 / 2.85 / 2.84 / 0.01 日本30年期 / 4.04 / 4.02 / 0.02 德国2年期 / 2.86 / 2.84 / 0.02 德国10年期 / 3.25 / 0.00 德国30年期 / 3.75 / 3.76 / -0.01

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经济适用房

伯纳姆放宽市政住宅计划

伯纳姆软化市政住房计划

资金主要拨付住房协会,而非地方当局

洛丽·史密斯、大卫·谢泼德、珍妮弗·威廉姆斯

安迪·伯纳姆已放宽其最雄心勃勃的市政住房计划。该计划旨在满足政府现有的经济适用房计划。

政府已初步拨付20亿英镑(占工党29亿英镑社会与经济适用房计划的大部分资金),主要用于住房协会,并在首年租金后三个月内表示该计划应“专用于市政住房”。此举引发质疑:他将如何兑现“战后以来最大规模市政住房建设计划”的承诺。

伯纳姆将更大的公共控制权奠定为其政治论据的基础。

昨天,奈杰尔·法拉奇领导的右翼改革英国党试图将房产短缺与移民联系,并表示将优先考虑“英国出生”的家庭获得社会住房。

英国改造住房由多种机构建造,包括非营利性住房协会,提供约为市场价值50%的社会租金、约为市场价格80%的经济租金以及共有产权计划。

然而,伯纳姆反复表示希望地方当局承担这一职责,强调“控制权至关重要”。在竞选沃特菲尔德议员时,他表示29亿英镑基金“应专用于市政住房。我们不要再这样下去了。”

昨天,政府公布计划,将20亿英镑拨付欧盟申请,主要用于住房协会,但也包括部分市政当局,分配方式与伯纳姆前任基尔·斯塔默爵士任内敲定的计划相似。

在斯塔默的计划中,约60%的7万套计划兴建住房被标注为社会租赁用途。

已引入技术调整,使市政当局更易从该计划中申请资金。官员表示,未来阶段的计划将更倾向于市政当局。

但考虑到伦敦的资金单独拨付后,政府仅剩26亿英镑可用,这使得大幅扩建市政住房的计划难以实现,资金捉襟见肘。

政府应建成1万套住房,但几乎没有地方当局能够接近这一目标。上世纪50年代,市政当局每年约建19万套;上世纪70年代,平均约为13万套。

资金的最低要求在此之前已成定局,伯纳姆接手后若推翻流程将导致无法接受的延误,而目前有10万名儿童居住在临时住所。

英国住房管理局首席执行官基尔·霍尔莫伊尔表示,此决定“对非营利性住房协会是一大信任投票”,并认可其发挥的关键且独特作用。

与此同时,改革党公布住房政策,将优先考虑与计划相关的工作,这导致其他地方的许多人在成为英国公民后仍被排除在外。

酒吧与酒店业“评估大师”将审查征税方案

乔治·帕克、斯特凡妮·斯泰西

英国财政部正引入“商业氛围”评估,以审查酒吧与酒店业对其被不公平征税的申诉,这是伯纳姆政府为支撑新中心而采取的最新举措。

财政大臣詹姆斯·默里昨日表示,资深商业税务专家詹姆斯·施耐德将确保未来的制度对企业更“快捷”。

针对商业税的咨询已获酒吧与酒店业欢迎,后者曾抱怨在新冠疫情后的商业税改革中受到严重冲击。

伯纳姆已将修订城镇中心政策列为其新伙伴关系的优先事项,并计划自明年4月起对酒吧、社交俱乐部及音乐场所的商业税下调20%。

詹姆斯·施耐德(曾任商业地产咨询公司Cushman & Wakefield的商业税务主管,现已加入纽马克)将在2020年之前考量酒吧与酒店的商业税估值,为未来20年做准备。

酒店业在2026年估值改革中面临应税价值显著上升,主要源于疫情后估值支出,业界称这未能反映现有非商业用途的实际情况。

“今天我们进一步推动估值重审——以构建更公平的制度”

财政部表示,新一轮审查将致力于提升企业公平性,并确保制度“公平透明”,使酒吧与酒店能更好地规划未来。

施耐德将领导独立审查,并将于3月底前向财政部提交报告。房东、前台、经手人及其他业主被敦促提供意见。

默里表示:“酒吧与酒店对社区至关重要,并为每个邮政编码带来增长。”

“上月我们已宣布对酒吧减税,为它们提供急需的喘息空间。今天我们进一步推动估值重审——以构建更公平的未来制度。”

今年,前财政大臣拉希·苏纳克批准了对酒吧及现场音乐场所商业税下调10%的方案,自4月起实施,随后又冻结了两年期限。

但经手人对该措施提出批评,认为许多企业面临相似或更严峻的成本压力。

管理咨询公司B7G上周发布的数据显示,面临“严重”财务困境的酒店及其他住宿企业数量同比增长了19%。

酒店业团体负责人艾伦·辛普森表示:“商业税仍是酒店业的沉重负担,制度需更好地反映该行业的经营现实。”

保守党影子财政大臣西蒙·克拉克表示:“2020年对这个行业而言,实在太晚了。”

税收法规 艺术市场

反洗钱法规困扰玩具士兵商家

旨在阻止不法分子清洗大额现金的法律 也在困扰小型企业

约翰·斯珀德(健康编辑)

在伦敦市中心一条精品拱廊的一家商店里,三尊青铜色的温斯顿·丘吉尔勋爵雕像凝视着前方。

这些是英国军备公司(The Armour of the British)的标准商品,该公司经营军事古董,包括肖像、银器和雕塑,以及与玩具士兵相邻的军事制服和武器。

但去年,英国军备公司发现自己无法应对英国税务海关总署(HMRC)的武器和反洗钱法规——这些法规始于1945年。该公司在接受审计后被处以1,000 英镑罚款,但现在它还将错误的员工登记为负责法规的责任人。

“我们一直愿意与英国税务海关总署合作,但他们上门来试图抓我们的小辫子,结果确实抓到了,”经理詹姆斯·罗林斯说,“我们并未造成伤害,但损失也不小。”

针对艺术品交易的反洗钱(AML)法规始于1945年,旨在防止犯罪分子通过拍卖行和画廊出售的名作洗钱数百万英镑,但这些法规也在困扰小型企业,包括游艇内饰设计师、艺术家书籍出版商和球迷商品商。

被处罚的商家告诉《金融时报》:“这些法规对小企业来说过于复杂,而且解释得不够清晰。”

他们指责英国税务海关总署审计资源有限的公司——“像抢劫穷人一样”,罗林斯的一位同事如是说。1898年成立的英国税务海关总署目前没有官方监管机构能提供有限的规则传播。

英国税务海关总署表示,最近的变化(如重新调整军事要求)已“使法规更清晰、更易于遵守”,并提供了“广泛的指导和工具来支持企业”,例如一部关于艺术品市场洗钱的影片。该机构称采用“以证据为基础的合规方法”。艺术画廊、艺术顾问、拍卖行、室内设计师和中介机构若在单笔或一系列关联交易中购买或出售价值10 万英镑或以上的艺术品,必须在英国税务海关总署注册为艺术品市场参与者(AMP)。一家球迷商品商表示,五年来仅处理过三笔此类交易。

在AMP中,最常见的违规行为是未在英国税务海关总署的截止日期前完成注册,其他违规还包括未向英国税务海关总署报告重大变更、未保留适当记录以及未进行适当核查。

1974-81艺术画廊因多项违规被处以1,200 英镑至1,500 英镑的罚款,但所有公司的违规信息均已在政府网站上公布。

1974-81艺术画廊的负责人克朗·兰波特表示:“我公司收到的罚款部分与对我们以往程序的核查有关,我们此后已进行了整改,与犯罪分子或洗钱无关。”

为艺术品交易提供反洗钱咨询的瑟汀咨询公司董事罗莎·内维尔表示,未将自身视为AMP的企业需要特别小心,例如室内设计师,“他们经常帮助客户购买为其设计的家中艺术品”。内维尔补充说,AMP必须询问“他们在与谁交易以及资金来源”,考虑到当前的制裁和战争局势。但她表示,英国税务海关总署需要“更灵活”并采取“与风险成比例的应对措施”。

E2-garbled-noise

凯瑟琳·乔德里(Katherine Chowdry),英国室内设计学会首席专门官,表示该学会已发布新闻报道、社交媒体帖文并举办网络研讨会,为会员提供“预测性指导”,涵盖所有相关新闻。

但她表示,由于该领域主要由微型、小型及中型企业构成,这些企业已在应对其他新规(如消防安全与建筑安全相关规定),“跟上所有变化实属不易”。

该学会表示,与HIMIC及主要组织“可在推广行业地位方面做得更多”,并计划于今年晚些时候发起一项活动,以凸显“设计师若不采取适当措施遵规,可能面临的风险”。

在线艺术销售平台格特鲁德艺术科技(Gertrude Art Technologies)因未注册病毒被处以1,650 英镑罚款。该公司前首席执行官普罗夫斯(Profs)表示,他于7月接手格特鲁德时正值危机期,待处理完最紧急事务后,已错过注册时机。

他表示,HIMIC对该公司进行了长达4小时的审计,考虑到公司规模,“这令人极为不适”。他坦言,这一审计几乎“诱使”公司缩减上架作品,因为“没有任何[超过1 万英镑]的作品能推动我们跨入夜生活领域……这绝对是一种抑制因素”。

他说:“我认为HIMIC若要针对艺术市场采取行动,应将目光投向我这样的从业者。”

内维尔(Neville)表示,监管复杂性正促使某些资产管理计划(AMPs)调整业务模式,“[这]暴露出其他几个问题,例如法律”

行业组织负责人艾伦·辛普森(Allen Simpson)表示:“营业税率仍是酒店业的沉重负担,现行制度需更好地反映该行业的交易现实。”

Starmer考虑为100,000名欧洲青年开放英国

乔治·帕克 – 伦敦 安迪·朗德 布鲁塞尔

英国前首相基尔·斯塔默正在考虑向欧盟学生提供“本地学费”就读英国大学的机会,并允许每年最多100,000名欧洲青年进入英国,作为其任期即将结束之际构建的一项宏大经济计划的一部分。

英国方面为欧盟峰会制定的秘密谈判策略——英国《金融时报》获悉参与起草的官员透露——意在通过一项“冲击性”举措,确保英国企业不受来自欧洲的新补贴政策或关税的冲击。

新任首相安迪·伯纳姆正在考虑双方在秋季举行的布鲁塞尔峰会上达成的潜在协议。

斯塔默谈判计划的披露——已由三名参与拟议计划的英国官员证实——将被视为后欧洲工党议员评估伯纳姆欧盟政策雄心的基准。

英国《金融时报》获悉,参与起草英国秘密谈判策略的官员表示,该策略意在通过一项“冲击性”举措,确保英国企业不受来自欧洲的新补贴政策或关税的冲击。

英国方面在斯塔默任期即将结束之际与布鲁塞尔方面磋商,提出在互惠签证计划下约50,000的上限。但英国官员私下表示,这一数字在未来数年或更长时间内可能提高至100,000,以换取布鲁塞尔方面的峰会让步。

伯纳姆对“在移民问题上软弱”的指责十分敏感,并表示其新政府的每项政策都必须通过“麦克菲尔德测试”——即在英格兰北部其选区工薪阶层选民中获得接受。

英国方面还准备在后续阶段同意欧盟要求,允许欧洲学生以与本地学生相同的学费在英国大学就读,而非以高达每年5 万英镑的国际生学费。

英国的主要目标是“本地学费”不应在2023年5月——首次欧盟-英国峰会和 / 或斯塔默任期内被列入议程,并称这是一项“新”要求,应与布鲁塞尔方面的新提议相匹配。

除在欧洲获得更多公共合同外,英国的主要目标还包括确保新兴技术产品(如电动汽车和清洁能源技术)的公共合同和补贴在欧洲及部分贸易伙伴国内生产,以符合“欧洲制造”规则。企业车队占欧洲新车销售的40%。

该提议已在英国汽车行业引发强烈抗议。与此同时,欧盟于7月1日实施的一项新的“调整”措施——对使用欧盟二手车的关税影响——也正威胁英国的汽车生产。

时任财政大臣雷切尔·里夫斯表示,任何欧盟协议都必须确保英国充分纳入新的布鲁塞尔贸易传统,并称该提议“利好”。

一位官员表示,向英国大学提供额外国家补贴的成本将“远远超过”此类协议带来的更广泛经济优势。“这原本只是一个脚注。”

一位欧洲官员表示,一项拟议的新合同将允许英国获得在欧洲的申请准入,但英国学生返回欧洲的可能性微乎其微。

英国政府表示将对“进行中的谈判”发表评论。


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英国获取乌克兰战场数据访问权

英国组织首批被授予大量战斗影像访问权,这些影像可用于训练AI模型

查尔斯·克洛弗、乔治·帕克 —莱曼 法布里斯·德普里—金

英国将成为首个获准访问乌克兰大量战场数据的外国国家,这些数据用于训练AI模型识别并打击俄罗斯目标,该技术共享合作伙伴关系范围广泛。

英国首相安迪·伯纳姆与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基昨日在基辅签署了该AI合作伙伴关系,向英国研究人员和科技公司开放乌克兰"平均湖"数据平台。

该数据库汇集了数百万由部署在乌克兰战场的数千台摄像机和传感器收集的观测数据。

伯纳姆在乌克兰独立35周年纪念日发表讲话时,对来自莫斯科的最新警告不以为然,并表示:"尽管俄罗斯对我的国家发出种种极其严重的威胁,我们将继续支持乌克兰。"

乌克兰国防部表示,"平均湖"每月处理超过100,000条无人机视频流,并能检测到约70%的影像中出现的敌方目标。早期版本据报每周可识别约12,000件敌方装备。

这些数据来自乌克兰所称的"通用军事数据集"——一个巨大的实战影像收集库,主要来自无人机和声学传感器,并已完成组织和人工标注。

该数据用于训练机器学习模型,使其能识别和分类战场目标(如坦克、无人机和火炮),是乌克兰在超过四年战争期间快速发展日益自主武器系统的一部分。

"高质量、标注的战场数据是开发可靠自主系统AI的最大制约因素之一。"乌克兰无人机软件公司Swarmor的首席产品官米沙·内斯特尔表示。

在此之前,这些数据仅与国内公司共享,使乌克兰无人机制造商在

安迪·伯纳姆(中)昨日在基辅郊外一处墓地出席献花仪式

Scalp missile

伯纳姆誓言分享武器技术

安迪·伯纳姆昨日访问乌克兰时,谴责俄罗斯对英国的“令人愤慨的威胁”,并承诺向该国提供导弹技术。

伯纳姆在基辅的访问标志着其新任首相职位的外交政策初步构想。

伯纳姆宣布,国防集团MBDA将被允许发布英国“风暴影”远程导弹英国组件的机密信息,而基辅和巴黎正寻求在乌克兰建立本地生产线。

该导弹为法国版“风暴影”,与英国版均使用英法共享技术。

克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫表示,莫斯科对向基辅分享“风暴影”技术的决定“极其负面”地接收。

“英国正在有条不紊、频繁地火上浇油,并策划阴谋,以阻止和平解决进程哪怕出现最微小的进展。”佩斯科夫在国际文传电讯社新闻稿中表示。

上周,莫斯科就英国制造无人机在袭击俄罗斯目标中被乌克兰使用一事,向英国发出未具体说明的“后果”警告,而伯纳姆的访问可能进一步加剧紧张局势。英国首相府表示,英国对乌克兰的支持“由来已久”,英国将继续与基辅“并肩站立”,反对其所称俄罗斯的“野蛮行径”。

伯纳姆作为大曼彻斯特前市长,在上任首几周强调其致力于解决选民日常生活面临的问题,并鲜少提及外交政策或其对欧盟关系的处理方式。

根据民调,关注生活成本、商店和酒吧现状等问题正在引起选民共鸣。相比之下,其前任基尔·斯托纳爵士曾因过度关注外交政策而受到批评。

英国军方尤其关注由遍布乌克兰的声学传感器收集的数据,这些数据用于识别来袭的俄罗斯无人机。基辅早在3月就宣布将允许国际伙伴使用这些数据,乌克兰国防部长米哈伊洛·费多罗夫当时表示,此举为合作伙伴“提供了在现代战争实战数据上训练AI模型的机会”。该协议是一项更广泛技术交换计划的一部分,旨在将乌克兰的战场经验和战时数据集与英国的大学、AI研究人员及科技公司结合。伯纳姆表示,该协议“将汇集乌克兰无与伦比的实战经验与英国一流的AI生态系统”。

此次出访是伯纳姆首次以首相身份出访海外。其间他承认英国面临“严峻”的财政前景,并表示不会通过提前大选制造政治和经济动荡。

首相表示将尽力帮助民众应对日常生活成本,但同时表示不会拿经济冒险,也不会采取推高利率的政策。伯纳姆避免在10月28日预算案中明确排除增税可能,并表示其政策将“稳健”。

“显然,人们能看到财政前景的严峻性,我们将审慎稳妥地应对。”他说道,“我们将始终确保把人民的安全放在首位。”

供应链防护立法动议

基兰·史密斯、麦考姆·摩尔

政府正寻求修改法律,以阻止企业从高风险供应商采购产品。此举紧随一家黑客组织攻击小型能源设施的新闻之后。

部长们可能要求能源、医疗和电信等关键行业的企业采取额外安全措施,分阶段淘汰或禁止从特定供应商处获取技术,上述提案已于昨日公布。

重要基础设施的脆弱性在周日被曝光:疑似与伊朗有关的黑客组织令一家小型天然气工厂停运。英国国家网络安全中心(NCSC)也已发出警告,企业必须加强防范网络攻击。

政府计划通过《网络安全与韧性法案》修正案推进上述提案,并需获得议会批准。此举旨在保护企业供应链——这些供应链常被黑客用作针对大型集团的“软肋”。

网络安全大臣利兹·劳埃德女男爵表示,新权力意味着政府能“在威胁成形前即采取行动,而非仅在损害发生后亡羊补牢”。

她说:“这关乎提前应对日益增长的威胁,并让公众对日常服务——如水电供应、交通网络和医院——得到保护充满信心。”

该提案可能为能源企业带来挑战,因其严重依赖来自中国的供应:中国生产全球90%的太阳能电池板,并主导电池和电动汽车供应。

伊朗贸易伙伴的警告

美国财政部长对与伊朗交易的国家设定期限

詹姆斯·波洛蒂、埃拉米斯·琼斯、埃里克·海兰德 • 华盛顿 安德鲁·多兰 • 伦敦

斯科特·贝森特昨日表示,美国正在扩大对伊朗的二级制裁范围,同时华盛顿试图通过新威胁——针对外国总部——来收紧对伊朗的经济和金融问题。

美国财政部长的声明包括警告,各国将被给予“明确的时间表”以终止与伊朗的贸易,而协助德黑兰转移资金或规避制裁的实体可能被“切断与美国金融体系的联系”。

该声明并未采取贝森特此前所暗示的激进即时行动,后者可能通过冲击包括中国、阿联酋、土耳其和伊拉克在内的国家来破坏全球经济,这些国家是伊朗最大的贸易伙伴。

此举正值财政部长今日在《金融时报》撰文称美国将对德黑兰发起“为期15天的强化行动”之际。贝森特昨日表示,美国正在针对伊朗经济的核心领域——数字资产、技术组织、黄金、航空和航运——扩大二级制裁范围。

贝森特表示,华盛顿希望发出强硬警告,即美国已准备好对伊朗贸易伙伴采取更激进的经济行动。

“我们正在给予所有人机会,以纠正不当行为。为何要允许其污染全球金融体系?”贝森特问道。

这一新警告发布之际,距离唐纳德·特朗普总统对伊朗发动战争已近六个月,伊朗早已在严格的美国和国际制裁下被排除出全球金融体系。这场战争目前陷入僵局。

尽管美国在对俄罗斯开战后试图惩罚与俄方进行贸易往来的国家,但成效不一,而美国现又威胁加大对伊朗及其贸易伙伴的经济压力。

贝森特表示,美国正在向世界领导人打电话,提出具体要求,要求其停止与伊朗政权的互动。“我们已看到初步成效,”他说道,“若他们不采取行动,我们将通过财政部当局单边实施。我们的耐心并非无限。”

上月,财政部制裁了中国、印度、俄罗斯和伊朗的六家实体和个人。自今年初以来,该部门已制裁超过100个与伊朗“浅层资金流动”相关的词条。

该部门未立即回应有关最新制裁如何影响终极经济权力体系的提问。

美国制裁专家表示,执行如此大规模的制裁运动难以奏效,因为新实体几乎与其他受制裁国家一样迅速地重新出现。

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国际协议

华盛顿计划以核动力船队挑战中国

詹姆斯·史密斯 • 纽约 艾丽斯·曼佐利斯 • 伦敦

美国政府正与一家英国公司合作,帮助其建造一支核动力商船队,以应对中国在商业造船业日益增长的主导地位,一位高级官员表示。

美国运输部下属海事管理局局长斯蒂芬·卡梅尔在接受《金融时报》采访时表示,华盛顿准备于昨日与总部位于伦敦的Core Power签署一项官民合作协议,以加速核动力船用推进系统的开发。

卡梅尔表示:“我们不会通过成为中国的廉价版本来战胜中国。他们已经掌握了‘便宜’的艺术。‘我们’赢得这场竞争的方式,是将竞争条件转变为更有利于我们的形式。因此,我们不会在‘便宜’上竞争,而是在技术上竞争——而技术正是我们的强项。”

该协议旨在通过设计监管框架来加快美国注册核动力船队的建造,该框架将简化许可流程、保险获取、港口准入并确保高标准的安全性。

总部位于伦敦的Core Power公司与得克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂港有合作关系,计划于2026年开始建造首艘核动力船。该公司表示已从包括日本综合企业日立、三菱和住友在内的投资者处筹集约200英镑资金。该协议不包含任何联邦资金担保。

核动力推进技术已在军用潜艇中使用数十年,因其可提供无限水下续航力、无需氧气且能实现高航速。但直到最近,由于高昂的建造成本、港口费用和复杂的国际责任法律,该技术在商业领域鲜有应用。

俄罗斯凭借核动力技术在北极破冰船领域拥有全球最大的核动力船队。

美国推动该技术旨在重振其造船业(该行业长期受低成本中国竞争冲击)并发挥其核技术专长。

今年6月,美国核动力航运公司批准了麻省理工学院海事联盟设计的核动力船设计。

下周,美国官员将在华盛顿举行的国际原子能机构会议上与英国、法国、日本、韩国及其他国家的同行就推进核动力海事技术展开磋商。

Core Power首席执行官表示,华盛顿及其他盟国在推进核动力商船方面存在战略共识,因为中国正朝同一方向发展。

他表示,核动力推进技术在燃料成本方面可与化石燃料系统竞争,船只可节省30%至75%的燃料,运载更多货物,且无需承担环保税。

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中东:军事部署

美国质疑伊朗袭击后海湾基地的作用

德黑兰导弹造成的损失加速了缩减地区军事存在的呼声

雅各布·阿马拉 • 伦敦

近四十年来,美国在中东的存在一直依赖于横跨海湾的一系列庞大基地。但在六个月的战争中,伊朗已令这些基地的未来变得扑朔迷离。

德黑兰通过短程导弹和无人机轰炸美国设施,迅速暴露出这些基地在有人驻扎时的脆弱性,迫使华盛顿将士兵和飞机转移至远离伊朗的以色列、约旦及更远地区。

三十多年来,华盛顿一直能够使用海湾各主要国家的基地。现在,它必须决定是否继续投资维护这些设施,抑或收缩其中东军事存在以适应新时代。

“这些设施,尤其是大型基地,极易受到攻击。我们将看到美国军事态势从波斯湾重新调整,”约翰斯·霍普金斯大学专家表示,“美国军事态势将从短程导弹和无人机射程范围内的基地撤出。”

随着五角大楼规划者重新构想对抗先进对手的作战方式,大型固定基地作为军事行动中转和补给枢纽的地位已日渐式微。华盛顿更倾向于采用更分散的部署模式,以提高美军基地的生存能力。这加速了长期以来缩减美国在海湾军事存在规模的呼声——这一军事存在最初是华盛顿与地区盟友间“石油换安全”安排的军事体现。

近期,负责监督美国中东行动的中央司令部一直在尝试将士兵部署在更小的作战据点,并快速调动战斗机穿梭于临时停机坪和简易机场之间。

“我们可以做得更灵活机动,”前美国国防部中东事务副助理部长表示,“这些基地的设计完全无法应对现代冲突。那些试图将我们赶出这些基地的人将感到满意。”

对这些基地的担忧还在于其暴露在地面以上的部分。伊朗袭击了飞机库、补给和雷达基础设施以及指挥控制节点。这迫使第五舰队将迪戈加西亚——印度洋偏远的一个海湾——用作巴林受损总部的临时补给枢纽。

华盛顿智库美国企业研究所今年4月估计,修复分布在中东七国的11个美军基地的损失约需$50。五角大楼尚未将此类重建成本纳入其对伊朗战争的预算测算中。

过去六个月,美国已将部分基地转移至约旦。同时,美国还从欧洲基地起飞飞机和无人机,这些基地均超出伊朗短程导弹的射程。

但伊朗——目前仍受到遏制——也将适应美方的举动。以色列军事情报前分析师表示,他预计德黑兰将加大对能够打击约旦和以色列的中程导弹投资力度。他说:“他们会大幅调整战略。他们会继续虚张声势。”

尽管美国近年来试图从中东脱身并将重心转向太平洋,但为在伊朗威胁下部署和补给士兵,维持海湾基地的必要性依然存在。华盛顿已于4月从叙利亚撤军,并逐步收缩在伊拉克打击伊朗的行动。他说:“我们不再像过去那样需要这些基地。”

许多在科威特的行动——自第一次海湾战争以来,美国基地的存在一直反映了对该地区安全忧虑——一直在支持叙利亚行动并遏制伊拉克。

任何重新思考也将影响驻扎在海湾地区的士兵数量。据三名前美国防务战略家称,通常约有32,000名士兵轮换部署在沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋、巴林、卡塔尔和科威特。这在入侵伊拉克前就已是常态,三名前美国防务战略家表示。

但此举将令华盛顿面临战略困境:如何在不疏远伊朗甚至激化盟友的情况下缩减其在海湾地区的存在。

美国与地区盟友的关系在过去几十年已发生演变,部分海湾国家也在努力将安全关系多元化,超越对华盛顿的依赖。但伊朗战争迫使各方重新审视美国对其防务承诺的内涵。

“这是一个军事与外交需求并存、相互制约的局面,”约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的布兰多表示,“你必须应对‘美国正在撤离并试图抽身’的认知。”

布兰多称,美国需要在运营需求与对伙伴国承诺之间寻求微妙平衡,并指出有必要评估资产和存在感,以支撑海湾国家的安全。“当前‘我们正在抛弃他们’的认知显然存在。”

但在这些美军设施的不确定未来背后,是对与德黑兰政权打交道所产生的更深层战略教训的日益认知。美国在海湾地区的驻军正在向阿联酋等地转移。

1980年1月,时任总统吉米·卡特阐述了后来被称为“卡特主义”的原则:华盛顿不会允许任何敌对国家控制海湾地区。随后在第一次海湾战争击败伊拉克后,美国永久性基地得到了大规模扩张。

“卡特主义似乎已名存实亡,”欧亚集团历史学家暨审计师格雷戈里·布鲁表示,“伊朗革命摧毁了卡特主义,而我们的愿望却适得其反,导致其崩溃。”

目前似乎缺乏任何新的中东战略概念,难以指导官员们在从白宫层面推行一致控制时保持清醒。布兰多称:“特朗普总统曾多次表示,他不愿成为卡特——其总统任期因伊朗革命及美国驻德黑兰大使馆人质危机而陷入瘫痪。”

“历史的讽刺在于,伊朗的战略失败将困扰特朗普,”奇特诺韦茨表示,“他从未想成为卡特,如今却正在成为他。”

乌克兰瞄准俄罗斯第二大在线零售商 Ozon

波利娜·查佐斯、埃德琳·哈罗德·德布里、埃特西

乌克兰在连续数周对俄罗斯市场领导者 Wildberries 发动无人机袭击后,已开始系统性地瞄准俄罗斯第二大在线零售商 Ozon 的仓库。

昨日表示,位于南部城市克拉斯诺达尔郊区的一处物流中心在无人机袭击中被击中,此前其位于俄罗斯境内的仓库在周末也遭到袭击,至少两处设施受损。

“克拉斯诺达尔郊区的一处物流中心遭无人机袭击……大火已被扑灭,紧急服务已抵达现场。仓库运营已暂停,”该公司表示。

周末期间, 报告其位于达吉斯坦首府马哈奇卡拉的仓库起火,而阿德格拉什和卡缅斯克两处其他地点则因无人机袭击警报而疏散。

该公司表示,后两处地点的设施和商品未受损坏。此次袭击发生在 位于俄罗斯中部萨马拉地区及附近奥伦堡的设施遭袭之后。

这些袭击标志着乌克兰对俄罗斯经济后勤系统发动新一轮攻势,此前数周乌克兰已对 Wildberries(被誉为“俄罗斯的亚马逊”)旗下设施发动无人机袭击。

乌克兰国防部周六表示,乌克兰武装部队袭击了 Wildberries 的 10 个最大物流枢纽。

乌克兰通信系统部队指挥官罗伯特·博雷尔表示,无人机在昨日袭击了俄罗斯及其控制地区的六个目标,国防部社交媒体上还发布了一段“音调”定义的视频——这显然是指对 仓库的袭击。

俄罗斯国防部昨日表示,其防空系统在过去 24 小时内击落近 2,000 架无人机。

俄罗斯官员表示,克拉斯诺达尔地区一名儿童在 overnight 袭击中被无人机碎片击中身亡,另有数人受伤。

“碎片还落在住宅楼和在建公寓楼上。情况并不像石头仓库设施那样安全。所有紧急服务目前已到达现场,救援人员正在扑灭大火,”克拉斯诺达尔州州长维尼亚明·孔德拉托夫在 Telegram 上写道。

在昨日对 的袭击后,几名新员工(化名为普罗科夫)表示,乌克兰专注于俄罗斯商业基础设施的攻击,却未能在前线取得任何进展。

他表示,政府正“与商界代表合作,考虑并制定各种支持方案以应对这一困难局面”。

股价昨日在莫斯科交易所下跌近 30%,据消息人士透露,交易所已启动临时交易限制系统。

俄罗斯财政部还发布了一项向 Wildberries 及其平台卖家提供财政援助的提案,包括延期 12 个月缴纳增值税、所得税及其他税项。

“援助将提供给年收入基数超过其年收入 5% 的法人和个体企业,”该部门表示。

然而,在奥伦堡,当地官员表示 仓库已恢复运营。

“州政府税务部门反应迅速,供应链正在恢复正常,”该地区负责经济事务的副州长安东尼·叶夫列莫夫在 Telegram 上表示。

燃料成本飙升与高抵押贷款利率为中期选举拉响警报

威廉·麦克唐奈尔、伊娃·哈德 - 纽约 劳里·约翰斯 - 华盛顿

自唐纳德·特朗普竞选承诺要压低物价并修复美国公共财政近两年以来,其发动的伊朗战争与减税政策却带来截然不同的结果:公共债务创历史新高、燃料成本飙升、抵押贷款利率居高不下。上周二,投资者将长期美国国债推至19年高位,市场对公共借贷重压与战争通胀后果的担忧引发警报。特朗普的财政部长斯科特·本内特次日匆忙安抚市场,披露一项计划“至少翻倍”购买长期债务,并计划近期宣布削减赤字的措施。这一最新市场干预举措未能降低国债收益率,反而令加元走软。

本内特周四表示市场已“自行恢复正常”。特朗普则称经济“蓬勃发展”,并以股市高位为证。

“特朗普的激烈言论及其政府试图干颏外汇与债券市场的举动,透露出绝望情绪,这只会令局势雪上加霜,并令市场情绪进一步恶化”

康奈尔大学经济学教授艾琳·P·汉德表示。

市场动荡凸显特朗普的经济议程正在瓦解之际,11月的中期选举已近在眼前。民调显示,民主党在经济管理方面领先于总统所在的共和党。

本周政府债务攀升至创纪录的$4494,联邦支出收入增长速度在疫情后时期之外达到最快,赤字仅从2024年的4%略降至2025财年GDP的3.4%。尽管特朗普政府削减了包括医疗补助与食品援助在内的社会安全网计划,其减税政策预计仍将在未来几年令赤字进一步扩大。KPMG US首席经济学家黛安·鲍威尔表示:“我们继续超支,[而且]战争令支出需求更加庞大。”

本内特曾承诺在特朗普第二任期结束前将赤字降至GDP的3%,周四他表示赤字“极有可能”已见顶,未来关税收入与经济增长将支撑财政收入。

美国企业研究所(American Enterprise Institute)经济政策研究主任迈克尔·斯特雷恩表示,削减赤字将迫使特朗普做出艰难抉择,包括削减医疗保险与社会保障。斯特雷恩说:“我希望本内特部长说的是事实。但其可行性仍存重大疑问。”

美国财政部未回应置评请求。

在债务负担不断加重之外,特朗普发动的伊朗战争正推高通胀,并破坏了总统将能源价格减半、降低银行消费者成本的承诺。自战争爆发以来,汽油价格已上涨约40%,本周五达到每加仑$4.15;柴油(推动美国经济商品流通的燃料)涨幅相近,达每加仑$5.08。特朗普第二任期内的柴油平均价格已高于乔·拜登任期。

抵押贷款利率也在快速上升。本周30年期抵押贷款利率升至6.65%,高于2月底战争爆发前的5.98%。

加拿大帝国商业银行证券(TD Securities)的珍妮特·索尔伯格表示:“随着2025财年第三季度与2026年第一季度利率下降,政府面临的解决住房可负担性问题的政治压力有所减轻。”

年度消费者价格通胀在5月触及三年高位4.2%,7月降至3.4%。

美联储官员担忧持续高通胀可能根植于经济,但他们选择不加息,这加剧了市场对其控制通胀意愿的担忧。

中东能源供应中断已掩盖了美国自身原油产量增长的市场表现,而特朗普曾将其作为抑制美国油价的手段加以推崇。休斯敦能源顾问Art Berman表示,特朗普的战争“浪费”了美国的能源优势。“他们根本不懂这些东西。”

美国仍是全球最大原油生产国,但美国能源信息署预计今年产量仅增长200,000桶 / 日。约2000万桶 / 日的原油流量通过海峡被中断。

债务负担、借贷成本以及持续高企的燃料和食品价格压力,已拖累消费者信心降至历史低点。民调显示,选民认为在特朗普的经济政策下生活变得更糟。

得益于消费者支出和大型科技公司争相投入AI基础设施,美国经济增长仍保持强劲。但去年GDP增速为2.1%,以及2026年第二季度年化增速为1.3%,远低于预测的3-6%或设定的3%目标。

周四,美国财政部长表示,美国仍有望通过“增长摆脱”债务困境。

纽约报道:Abila Quixia

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德国“投资沙皇”敦促重新考虑私人资本

奥莱·斯托里克(法兰克福) 卡伦·克歇尔德(伦敦)

德国政府必须更愿意与私人投资者合作,以应对该国日益恶化的基础设施问题。该国“投资沙皇”马丁·比辛如是说。

前商业银行首席执行官马丁·比辛表示,说服公共当局与私营部门投资者合作,比寻找私人资金来帮助升级该国数十年投资不足的道路、桥梁和港口更具挑战性。

“我们仍需让相关当局说:‘这是我们真正想做的事,’”他在接受《金融时报》采访时表示。

他指出,柏林“各部委”对公私合作伙伴关系的怀疑态度正开始转变,但这一过程“比我们预期的要花费更长时间”。

德国一位部长表示,政府希望在2040年前动员高达2.70亿欧元的私人资本,以补充同期1.9亿欧元的公共投资。去年,德国放宽了宪法债务刹车机制,以增加在国防、基础设施和经济脱碳方面的支出。

比辛表示,在他作为德国总理弗里德里希·马克斯的个人特使推动德国外国投资的第一年,他已会见了200多名国际投资者。

在德国首次年度投资合同于10月举行之际,他坚称“无论是投资者的兴趣还是资金都不存在短缺”,但“许多国际投资者希望在公私合作伙伴关系和‘打包’模式方面看到更快的速度”。他辩称,“私人资金”常常能比政府单独运作更快速、更高效地推动基础设施项目。

长期以来,德国公众对私募股权和外资收购持怀疑态度。

比辛指出,最近的一项法律修改简化了对国家利益重大投资项目的规划和审批程序,这是积极的一步。

“这对推动基础设施投资快速落地是一个关键建设性环节,”他说。

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AI拉大美国与欧洲的投资差距

科技繁荣将推动支出增长,为集团咨询预测的三倍

法律期刊

根据数据显示,自疫情以来的六年间,美国企业投资增长速度预计将是欧洲的三倍以上,这凸显了两国在AI驱动支出差距上的成本。

根据数据,2025年至明年底,美国企业在新设备和设施上的支出预计将以实际价值计算增长60%。咨询公司表示,数百万的设备采购是其预测的关锤驱动因素。相比之下,欧元区的实际增长仅为12%,而德国企业投资在同期几乎全面萎缩。

这些数据凸显了欧洲面临的挑战,即在高科技设备和设施支出激增之际,难以跟上美国的步伐。早在2022年底ChatGPT推出引发大语言模型浪潮之前,欧洲在US-17投资方面就已落后于美国。

但这些数据也为美国自身敲响了警钟,因为当国际清算银行等机构正在关注“投资过热”风险之际,美国仍在技术上依赖AI。谷歌、Meta、微软和亚马逊仅在2026年就计划投资超过$7,000。

牛津经济研究院的预测显示,自前欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉在2018年9月发布关于综合税收的里程碑式报告以来,欧洲在缩小投资差距方面几乎没有取得任何进展。德拉吉曾警告称,数字化、去碳化和国防支出增加需要“前所未有”的投资激增,达到“上世纪90年代和70年代的水平”。

牛津经济研究院经济学家丹尼尔·哈伦伯格表示:“美国是一个更具活力的经济体,更具企业家精神,因此在AI竞赛中行动更快且回报更多。”

欧洲还面临与美国日益扩大的生产率差距。“美国最近已将欧洲远远甩在身后,”曼彻斯特大学教授van Ark在欧洲经济政策中心夏季会议上表示。

根据van Ark的分析,2018年至2025年间,美国每小时GDP产出增长了$14,而欧洲仅增长$2。“差距不仅仅是数字部门的故事,”van Ark补充道。

但van Ark认为,欧洲的“更深层问题”是创新“未能与企业对新理念和工具包的采用有效衔接”。

欧洲央行行长克里斯蒂安·拉加德在去年发表的一场演讲中警告称,该地区以制造业为依托的增长模式正在“逐渐走向一个可能消失的世界”。

欧洲是全球首批制定严格AI使用监管法律的司法管辖区之一,其2024年AI法案成为“史上首个针对该技术的法律框架”,据欧盟委员会介绍。

新规引发了严格监管可能抑制创新并扼杀AI投资的担忧。“我们与这个正在变化的世界脱节,”法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙两年前曾发出警告,称欧洲正在“过度监管”且“投资不足”。

公共服务银行首席经济学家卡斯滕·尤斯图斯表示:“欧洲错过了最新一波尖端技术浪潮。”但他表示,他相信欧洲与美国的投资差距至少部分是暂时现象。“美国的AI投资不会永远保持这种速度,但它不会像过去那样出现强劲的、长期的IT和服务业投资周期,这种周期过去一直存在,未来也将继续存在。”

但欧洲的问题因创新和敏捷性不足而变得更加严重,这部分归因于战争、经济“痛苦”以及尖端技术,而相对标准的生活水平与美国相比将继续受到侵蚀。

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法国警告:明年预算难以取消对大企业的税收附加费

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法国财政部长警告称,明年预算中取消备受争议的大企业税收附加费将“困难重重”,这可能引发与商界领袖的潜在冲突。

该“特别”附加费针对大型企业利润征收,但并非旨在帮助填补国家预算的巨大缺口。

“如果我们能降低[企业税收附加费],我们会做,但今天并不容易,”财政部长罗兰·勒屈泽(Roland Lecuzet)昨日表示,“不幸的是,我们目前的处境可能会失败。”

连续第三年征收这项附加费将引发与大企业的又一场争斗。去年,大企业曾指责政府违背信任,因该附加费第二次延期,并长期抱怨高税收和其他成本使在法国经营业务举步维艰。

然而,法国正在艰难应对预算赤字缩减压力。该附加费预计今年为国家带来超过€10的收入。即便如此,该国赤字今年仍可能达到GDP的5.1%,远超欧盟将赤字上限设定为GDP 5%的规定。

勒屈泽表示,法国将“竭尽所能”在明年实现GDP 5%的赤字目标,不会削减任何收入。但他同时警告称,包括20世纪80年代首次的冲击、夏季企业中断以及借贷成本上升在内的多重冲击,已超出挑战范围。

“40年来,法国面对问题时的‘魔法解决方案’就是提高税收——这是一个不再奏效的公式。我认为我们需要考虑其他方法,”勒屈泽说。

“这并不意味着税收不应调整。这是公共政策的一部分。但若说‘我们将取消所有税收,一切都会变得免费’,这已不再可行。”

今年6月,法国央行在第一季度经济意外收缩且中东冲突推高所有物价后,将今年GDP增长预期从此前的0.9%下调至0.3%。

长期以来,法国在其他方面苦苦挣扎,原因在于该国高成本和相对较弱的经济表现。

由于议会分裂,在总统选举前无法形成明确多数,政府预计将面临比2027年预算更为严峻的挑战。

去年,总理成功通过2026年预算,但付出了沉重代价。

为确保预算立法获得通过,他与总统达成协议,将其旗舰改革推迟至2027年选举之后实施。

此举对法国实施结构性改革的能力造成打击——结构性改革是2017年上台时施政纲领的核心。

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非洲国家加入太空竞赛

政府转向卫星 用于改善天气、战争、农作物和牲畜的数据

雅各布·贾达赫 — 伦敦

在世界的另一端,盖伊内·法耶能够接触到的最接近星空的方式,就是在伊福里卡与家人一起前行,或是观看未来火箭的发射。

从那以后,他参与了一个太空项目,成为越来越多非洲科学家中的一员,这些科学家正仰望天空,以解决地球上各自国家的问题。

近20个非洲国家已在轨道上拥有卫星,另有多个国家正在建立太空项目。

今年,非洲国家将在太空项目上共同投入超过4亿美元,几乎是两年前支出的两倍。非洲联盟去年甚至成立了非洲航天局,以改善协调并分享最佳实践。

非洲在20世纪的太空竞赛中被绕过,但现在正押注卫星能够收集从天气、战争到农作物和牲畜的海量数据。这对帮助各国政府了解本国情况至关重要。

好处在于,该大陆所需的大部分技术如今不再需要尖端且成本不断下降。通过使用国外发射公司,博茨瓦纳和乌干达已发射卫星以应对干旱和野火带来的问题。安哥拉则发射通信卫星以连接偏远村庄,而吉布提这样的小国正在建立区域水位监测系统。

这意味着科学家们不再需要浪费时间和金钱前往遥远的传感器下载数据,而人口普查人员、农业规划者和气象学家将能够获得更多信息,从而挽救生命并加强基础设施。

“他们希望拥有数据主权,”奥米克戎,一位分析师表示。他还指出,从西方主导的几家主要企业购买高质量卫星影像可能极其昂贵,而来自受美国或欧盟制裁国家的供应商可能完全被拒之门外。

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焦点:塞内加尔太空工作,阿拉伯规划者,达喀尔5月;该国两年前发射首颗卫星,目前还有三颗在研

一些国家仅用几年时间就取得了长足进展。塞内加尔两年前发射首颗卫星用于传输环境数据,目前还有三颗在研,该国已决定全力推进。法耶表示:“这首先是一个经济问题。”

首颗卫星“盖因什米14”号耗资约100万美元——这一数字包括首次控制设置以及建立一个全功能空间站的设备成本。到法耶建造第四颗卫星时,他预计每颗卫星的成本将降至最初的十分之一。

他正在为一个由6至12颗搭载摄像头的卫星星座提交方案——该项目将惠及塞内加尔超过70个机构,这些机构目前依赖免费提供的二进制图像,但往往无法使用。

法耶认为,有了更好的影像,即使估算每个季节能生产多少粮食这样的简单任务,也能通过追踪田地和后备耕地显著改善。甚至任务如估算每个季节能生产多少粮食也能通过追踪田地和后备耕地显著改善。

“自非洲的研究成果开始赶上来后,科学家们更容易学习建造和操作卫星。小型卫星比更复杂的卫星更小且更便宜,为实验和技能发展提供了简单的入口,而无需冒险破坏价值数百万美元的项目。这类卫星成本仅1美元,重量不及一袋面粉。

“你可以用它们犯错,而且没关系,”尼日利亚卫星工程师托莱夫·帕杰莫拉(Toleve Pajemola)表示。他曾在日本接受培训,并认为卫星为新兴先进国家向渴望学习的国家传授知识提供了一种直接的方式。“它们是建设太空能力的一个很好的‘防火墙’,”他补充道。

塞内加尔派遣工程师和技术人员前往蒙彼利埃大学,

估算每个季节能生产多少粮食可以通过追踪农田和分享数据来改进

他们在法国工程师的指导和技术支持下建造了首颗卫星。现在,他们正在无需现场指导的情况下建造第二颗。法耶表示,第三颗将在塞内加尔组装,第四颗的技术将由他们自主掌握。

但除了对星空的憧憬,科学家们还面临更为严峻的政治问题。专注于建造复杂卫星及地面基础设施的中国一直在提供援助。欧洲、俄罗斯和日本也已能够为这种新技术培训提供支持。

“在每个层面都涉及团队伦理,”威斯康星大学的耶勒·克林格(Jelle Klinger)表示,并指出非洲国家往往会在众多国家中选择——超越其众多国家——努力创造一个新世界。她说:“这是一个竞争非常激烈的市场。”“我们不必选择第一个办事处。”

情况往往因地而异。中国在建造或销售卫星及基础设施时提供有竞争力的价格。当然,其乐意提供低息贷款也帮助了客户。法国和日本拥有研究机构,如国际空间大学和九州工业大学,这些机构历史上一直是众多对卫星感兴趣的科学家的首选之地。

地理位置也增强了非洲的战略重要性。例如,南非位于南半球顶端,使其成为支持极地卫星的特别有价值的地区。与其他国家不同,吉布提已将自己打造成为主要的火箭发射场。欧洲利用其在南美洲法属圭亚那的位置,从大西洋彼岸的地面站到里斯本。中国在肯尼亚和纳米比亚设有设施,美国声称这些设施对管理军事卫星至关重要。

马拉维等国甚至在没有任何公开规划的情况下启动了太空计划。 “你不想被落下,”一位发言人表示,并补充说集中专业知识是明智之举。

非洲要成为世界主要力量还有很长的路要走。但唯一的方向就是向上。“我们被允许捐赠,”法耶在被问及塞内加尔是否最终能将国家送入太空时表示。他很快克制了自己。“我们非常有抱负,但我们努力让自己的目标保持在可衡量的范围内。”

法律与正义

前波兰总理指责卡钦斯基激进化右翼反对党

《共和国报》 — 华沙

莫罗维茨基指责其前政党领袖亚罗斯瓦夫·卡钦斯基在明年议会选举前将更多盟友逐出法律与公正党(PSJ),并激进化该党。

本月,PSJ纪律法庭驱逐了40名议员,包括莫罗维茨基,此举是对卡钦斯基自创立PSJ以来面临的最严重挑战之一。

前波兰总理莫罗维茨基在接受基亚德·卡钦斯基采访时表示,过去一年,卡钦斯基允许极端主义政治家将PSJ进一步推向右翼。他补充道:“领导层的策略是激进化该党,但经过11个月后我们发现这一策略未能奏效,支持率已下降。”

卡钦斯基指责莫罗维茨基“在最不合时宜的时刻”蓄意分裂PSJ,并称“在明年选举前”。8日,卡钦斯基写道:“对于玛热娜·莫罗维茨基而言,敌人不是[总理唐纳德]图斯克,而是法律与公正党本身。”

莫罗维茨基在采访中回应称:“我驳斥了他所有这些不实言论,不会再与他进行任何有意义的对话。”

他表示,PSJ在民调中的支持率下滑表明该党“无法找到与年轻人沟通的合适语言”。他即将于10月启动的新政党“发展_plus”将吸引那些“对政治不那么情绪化的保守选民”。

当被问及PSJ的问题是否归咎于卡钦斯基时,莫罗维茨基含糊其辞,称卡钦斯基应为更年轻的党领袖让路,并认为其在位时间过长(如他认为美国前总统所为)。莫罗维茨基表示:“我认为他的状态比那位前总统好得多。”

莫罗维茨基称,卡钦斯基暗示若PSJ在下次选举中失利,他可能会辞职,这加剧了党内权力斗争。他说:“这可能也是其他党领导人试图将[某人]逐出的原因。”他表示他们的“主要目标是接管卡钦斯基总统之后的控制权”。

莫罗维茨基补充道,卡钦斯基本想在选举前动员PSJ,但却冒险制造了“一个自我实现的神秘辩论”。

塔斯克试图利用这一分裂,近日表示他正“微笑着”加强英国一方,并将其比作电视肥皂剧。他说:“我相当喜欢这部剧。”

本周,塔斯克还批评莫罗维茨基的强硬移民计划“极其无耻”,因其前总理提议设立部门监督非法移民驱逐。他指责莫罗维茨基在任期间是“一个不情愿且疯狂的消息源”,并提及2023年PSJ政府期间波兰清关非法出售的丑闻。

莫罗维茨基的立场较一些PSJ低层政客更亲欧盟,后者曾威胁英国若脱离欧盟将有多少人能维持其社会盟友。莫罗维茨基表示:“有些人试图说服公众,我们……可以在与他国隔绝的情况下发展经济。”他补充道:“但作为前财政部长和领导人,我深知最佳解决方案。”他表示:“我相信欧盟需要巨大修复、变革与改革,但我希望成为这一变革的一部分,而非令欧盟分崩离析。”

自今夏PSJ分裂以来,塔斯克的政党在民调中领先,最新民调显示其支持率为3.15%,而PSJ为16.9%。莫罗维茨基的新政党支持率为10.4%,在八个党派中排名第二。

但由于没有任何政党可能赢得议会多数席位,明年的选举预计将取决于各党派在5%得票门槛以上的得票结果,以及它们之间的联合谈判。他还在2025年无法找到足够的合作伙伴组建政府。

莫拉维茨基预测,在其政党正式启动后,将获得动能,“并将为两位数规模而战”。他表示,其优先事项是开始行动。这将是与更保守的联盟伙伴——特别是农民党(波兰人民党)——的第二次合作。

“我是那种能和几乎所有人交谈的人。”莫拉维茨基说。


2026年8月25日

《金融时报》

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Companies & Markets

UBS讨论撤换可持续金融基金经理

  • 私募市场扩张引发担忧
  • 英国合作伙伴Record暂时保留职位

BRYANT & ALLEN AND ALEXANDER HILLS — LONDON NEWSWEEK 2026 / 7

瑞银(UBS)近期讨论对一只第85只可持续金融基金进行管理层重组,该基金与世界银行等开发机构合作。此举缘于对英国投资合作伙伴Record向私募市场扩张的担忧。

知情人士透露,瑞银在过去数月讨论是否需要为该基金寻找替代管理方,尽管由于基金持有大量非流动性投资,转换管理方可能影响新兴经济体的开发项目。

知情人士称,瑞银最近完成了对该基金的审查,决定维持现有策略并继续委任Record为管理方。但有关Record职位的讨论“可能仍将持续”。

“他们正在寻找新的归属,但这需要时间……找到新的管理方和载体。”一位知情合作伙伴表示。

该第85只基金是瑞银最大的可持续投资策略之一,也是极少数由私营机构运营的此类基金之一,允许世界银行和非洲开发银行等机构对开发贷款进行货币风险对冲。承担此类风险的资金由瑞银的高净值客户提供。

知情人士表示,随着Record近期将业务重心从核心货币对冲业务转向私募股权、基础设施及私人债务资产管理等领域,瑞银与Record的关系随之紧张。

过去三年,Record试图通过多项举措扩张至私募市场,包括推出一只大幅调整的合规供应链金融基金,以及与刚果民主共和国达成一项22亿加元协议为该国私营部门提供融资。知情人士称,上述项目均未获批。

知情人士透露,瑞银考虑的替代方案还包括替换Record作为该基金的管理方。该基金在截至7月的五年间实现了52%的年化回报。瑞银还在考虑更小规模的调整,如引入不同管理方负责Record现有职能的部分业务。

Record由尼尔·Record创立。

知情人士称,未能为该瑞银基金吸引更多资产(除初始募集资金外)也是瑞银考虑的因素之一,并补充称瑞银财富客户仍占该基金约90%的资产。

瑞银表示:“我们最近完成了对新兴市场可持续金融基金的审查,作为常规监管流程的一部分。审查确认了我们对该基金、其投资组合经理及策略的持续信心,自成立以来该基金的表现已超出预期。”

Record未对其与瑞银的关系置评,但表示其私募市场项目“对管理新兴市场金融基金的团队的使命或重点没有影响”,该基金“表现强劲”。尼尔·Record于2023年卸任其公司职务,但仍为该公司最大股东。

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Blank Street成立于六年前,最初仅在布鲁克林开设一家咖啡小摊,现已跻身快速成长的高街连锁行列,试图挑战Marbucks和可口可乐等老牌对手。

Blank Street已扩张至逾100家门店,主要集中在伦敦和纽约。据联合创始人苏珊·普罗夫卡(Susan Profka)介绍,该公司正在加州富裕地区的飞地开设新店,包括比弗利山庄、西好莱坞和哈利法克斯。

Blank Street尤其受到年轻顾客的欢迎,其特色饮品——matches饮料——在社交媒体上颇受关注。

“Match是我们memos的关键部分,与咖啡并驾齐驱。但我们不希望被单一品类定义,”普罗夫卡表示,“我们的愿景是将Blank Street打造成一个全方位的日常奢侈品牌,无论是早晨的咖啡,还是下午的matches或像冰淇淋这样的小食,都能为你提供服务。”

普罗夫卡称,Blank Street的大部分销售额来自下午时段,且其feature growing time也集中在下午4点后。“我们不得不彻底refillish我们的菜单、hospitality experience、门店设计和operation flow,”他补充道。

据接近该公司的人士透露,Blank Street在去年一轮融资中估值为$500mn,而最新一轮融资后估值约为$650mn。

Blank Street的一些投资者原本希望新一轮融资能将公司估值推升至接近85%,但普罗夫卡表示此类预期并不准确。

Blank Street的投资方包括消费投资机构Leff Lane Capital,以及General Catalyst和Tiger Global等以投资快速成长科技公司闻名的机构。Tiger还支持了该公司的huge trade。

General Atlantic亦持有丹麦咖啡、果汁和三明治集团6.70 pints的股份。该集团拥有约$250m的资产,并在消费领域进行了其他投资,支持fitness brand to prepack以及use alcoholic beverages with little interest。

“我们相信外出咖啡和matches是一个规模庞大且持续增长的品类,有稳固的消费需求支撑,”General Atlantic表示,“我们很期待与Blank Street才华横溢的创始团队合作,助力其打造独特品牌与菜单并实现规模化。”

Shein寻求香港IPO估值为270亿美元

ARJON WELL ALUM — 香港

快时尚零售商Shein寻求在下周香港上市时达到270亿美元估值,相比此前尝试达到的峰值下降近四分之三。

这家中国创立的在线公司计划在9月1日上市时最多筹资140亿港元(约18亿美元)。公司以每股47.60港元至49.50港元的价格出售3.8亿股,根据香港交易所昨日发布的上市公告,其市值将达500亿港元至200亿港元(约80亿英镑至270亿美元)。约90%的股份将面向国际投资者。

中国监管机构批准该市场申请一个月,为这项酝酿四年多的首次公开募股开出绿灯。Shein此前在纽约和伦敦上市的尝试均因政客和监管机构的反对以及市场对其估值的长期争议而告吹。

此次估值低于300亿美元,相比之下,Shein在2022年私募融资轮中达到约1000亿美元估值。公司有权根据需求额外出售200万欧元股份,这可能使其进入市场。

由高盛、摩根士丹利和Pritchett牵头的交易银行将共同收取相当于所筹资金1.5%的承销佣金,以及6 / 75%的可自由决定的投资者费用。这是因为在出售任何额外股份前,投资者池已接近8亿人。

基石投资者——承诺在六个月内购买并持有股份——约占上市股份的五分之一,主要由Shein现有支持者组成,包括美国私募股权公司General Atlantic和中国科技巨头腾讯。General Atlantic和投资集团老虎环球均参与了2022年对Shein的20亿美元融资轮,当时估值为5000亿美元,据Phil Mook称。中国私募股权公司Peter Capitel拿下最大配额1.5亿美元,其次是General Atlantic、老虎环球和腾讯,各约5000万美元。

另据彭博社昨日报道,Shein收购美国服装品牌Everlawn的3.8亿美元交易正在美国外国投资委员会的国家安全审查之下。

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私人信贷的保险热潮或引发数十年年金困境

BISNINGS洞察

编者按

作者:Patrick Jenkins

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比尔曼·马克·沃尔特(Billman Mark Walter)近期短暂持有洛杉矶湖人篮球队股份(他于本月表示其持股)及切尔西足球俱乐部(正在进行出售测试)的所有权状态,可能不会引发球迷关注。

但他从体育迷那里获得的关注,与金融市场可能面临的冲击相比,几乎不值一提。

这些动荡似乎与一波寻求现金的浪潮有关,该浪潮与沃尔特商业帝国内部此前隐藏的“关联投资”之间的审查相关。然而,这可能不仅仅是市场更广泛层面的新偏差。沃尔特是将私人信贷资产管理公司与人寿保险公司结合这一新兴热门做法的先驱,尽管监管机构对整个行业可能出现的问题感到担忧。

当数十年前爆发全球金融危机时,多重因素推波助澜。许多人将焦点放在银行固有的脆弱性上。银行大多通过短期资金(如存款或隔夜银行间拆借市场)借贷,并将其用于更长期的投资。

在众多危机后的监管改革中,有一系列举措试图缓解这种“期限错配”所带来的系统性风险。金融结构变化之一,是转向由“影子银行”提供贷款,例如私人资本集团,它们的资金并非来自个人存款,而是来自全球主权财富基金、捐赠基金等所谓的有限合伙人。

个人银行客户面临大规模损失风险曾是2008年政府救助银行的主要触因之一。将这一风险转移至成熟的机构投资者,在当时看来几乎是明智之举——市场如是推理。

多年来,私人资本集团确实如此运作,直到金融创新的必然进程显现。随着更多银行从企业借贷中撤离,沃尔特等人的新模式——将寿险现金业务与寻求信贷的企业相结合——开始兴起。

私人资本集团阿波罗收购了雅典人寿保险公司。KKR收购了环球大西洋保险。不久之后,这种结合成为主流。原因不言而喻。

对于私人资本集团而言,他们获得了新的稳定现金流——来自人寿保险保费——用于放贷。对于寻求利润的投资者而言,该模式看似比传统银行借贷杠杆率更低,且不太可能产生存款风险。

尽管如此,仍有至少三个领域令人担忧。

首先,自2008年以来,尚未出现过重大信贷周期下行。最近虽有迹象显现,投资者有时会撤出私人信贷基金。公募基金市场估值已创下新低,并在近几个月大幅下跌。考虑到地缘政治紧张局势和持续通胀,信贷违约率急剧上升的风险早已成熟。

其次,私人信贷与保险公司的合作在设计上存在严重缺陷,至少对保险单持有人而言如此。随着私人信贷集团不再依赖机构投资者的资本(这些投资者期望在几年后退出),对业绩和低税负债务的审查力度减弱。另一个利益冲突在于,保险公司可能过度投资私人信贷,忽视资产分散化的良好实践。

第三,正如“影子银行”一词所暗示的,该行业的数据及任何新兴问题的获取难度极大。此外,私人信贷通过多种复杂方式杠杆化基础资产的透明度极低——其中许多借贷最终又回流至银行系统。

保险监管在不同美国州及离岸中心的薄弱性质意味着对这些风险的监管可能不力。以沃尔特为例,隐藏的关联交易规模之大并未由后续问题所引发,而是由美国检察官和美国证券交易委员会监管。

若最坏情况发生,沃尔特引发更广泛危机,金融家们认为不会出现2008年那样的突然冲击。这将是一个“长期民主化的问题”,正如一位银行高管对我说的那样。换句话说,痛苦将在数十年期年金的期限内分摊,中性贷款的损失可能通过降低支付额,最终影响数百万年金所有者。

对于那些担心金融业长期运营社会许可的人而言,这并不比2008年的纳税人救助更令人不安。

patrick.jenkins@fi.com

KPMG Australia 裁员数百人

合伙人薪酬将削减15%,营收因审计丑闻影响大幅下滑

WICHAEL C. STONEY

由于审计丑闻余波持续至少两年,毕马威澳大利亚公司将裁减数百名员工,并将合伙人平均薪酬削减15%,以节省政府资金。

这家"四大"之一的公司数月来深陷动荡,此前有指控称其部分高级审计合伙人为赢得新合同而使用机密客户文件。

这场风波,加之该公司对举报人关于此事的投诉处理不当的指控,引发了政治危机,并导致澳大利亚大部分高管离职。

其影响在于,公共部门组织对新业务采取威胁态度,一些长期企业客户表示将终止与毕马威的合同,导致咨询业务急剧下滑。

该公司昨日表示,将裁减360名员工和27名合伙人,主要在咨询部门。公司将重组部分团队,包括其中端市场和双重咨询业务,以与毕马威的国际服务保持一致。该公司在澳大利亚约有$600名员工。毕马威还表示

平均合伙人薪酬将削减15%,因软弱的前景及政府工作减少,其咨询业务年度营收下降近17%。在[其重塑]服务交付方式之际,政府对咨询师的支出仍处于较低水平

17%。据当地媒体报道,毕马威去年将平均薪酬提高了10%,至$752,000(¥812,000)。毕马威拒绝透露削减后的平均薪酬水平。上月被任命为毕马威澳大利亚首席执行官的约翰·萨姆斯表示,预计增长至少要到1,027 英镑才能恢复正常。

"专业服务行业……随着客户期望的快速变化,我们正在重塑服务交付方式,而政府对咨询师的支出仍处于较低水平,"他说道。

"我们也认识到自身丑闻带来的挑战,以及我们必须继续努力重建信任的工作。"

即将接任毕马威国际首席执行官的加里·温格罗夫此前曾负责澳大利亚地区。本月,毕马威高管已在悉尼、墨尔本和布里斯班的北部办事处巡视4至5次,以在重组公告前与合伙人会面。毕马威高管本月已连续4至5次出面回答有关客户文件数据如何被忽略的问题。

该公司昨日表示,多项内外部审查将在未来数月完成,并将影响其在丑闻后采取的"积极光明"计划下一阶段的走向。

毕马威截至6月底的年度总营收下降1%,至$2,780(6,486 英镑),但咨询业务放缓的影响将在下一个财年显现。

石油与天然气

壳牌吸引潜在买家对其在美国80亿美元化工资产的出售意向

中国(彭博社和路透社)- 伦敦

壳牌已吸引到包括埃克森美孚和利安德巴塞尔在内的潜在买家对其价值数十亿美元的美国化工资产表现出兴趣,该集团正寻求剥离表现不佳的业务。

壳牌的美国化工厂分布在路易斯安那州、德克萨斯州和宾夕法尼亚州的四个地点,生产用于塑料、洗涤剂和制药业的多种化学品。

这些地点包括宾夕法尼亚州的巨型莫纳卡综合体,该工厂于2012年开始运营,每年可生产多达1400万吨聚合物。壳牌已在此设施投资86亿美元。

据熟悉此事的人士透露,包括埃克森、利安德、私募股权集团阿波罗以及国有科威特石油公司化工部门在内的竞标者已对这些资产表示出兴趣。

这些人士称,竞标方上月提交了非约束性行业报价,这些提议包括拟议收购整个业务以及客户资产。这些资产可能达到80亿美元,但这些人士补充称,并无保证。

该价格将较壳牌投资于美国化工设施的资本金形成大幅折价。壳牌正与顾问合作在欧洲营销其化工资产,尽管这些资产可能价值远低。

壳牌首席执行官瓦德·哈斯拉姆去年表示,壳牌已部署了84太比特(tBu)的资本“这些资本对我们表现不佳”,分布在其化工业务和埃克森美孚能源部门之间。

该集团去年3月表示,它认为自己“不是其化工投资组合的天然所有者”,并表示到2030年将无法运营。

今年初,中东战争引发价格激增之前,该公司的化工部门尽管努力削减成本,仍举步维艰。但他于2月表示,壳牌将“保持耐心”,因为它“不愿在市场底部抛售”。

壳牌退出化工业务之际,包括雪佛龙、阿布扎比国家石油公司(Adnoc)和沙特阿美在内的其他石油公司正在扩大或考虑扩大在该行业的投资,以克服石油价值下滑的挑战,从而为生产塑料和其他化学品奠定基础。

壳牌正致力于将业务重新聚焦于核心油气运营。该集团今年同意以86亿美元收购加拿大油砂生产商达德利资源公司,这是其十年来最大规模收购。该集团在第二季度报告了第二高的季度利润。

壳牌、埃克森和阿波罗均未置评。利安德巴塞尔和科威特石油公司未回应置评请求。

技术:融资

中国政府支持的类人机器人“循环”交易引发需求质疑

WILLIAM JAMES P. - 广州

中国类人机器人制造商正在将大量研究转向政府支持的培训中心——这些中心随后收集并将培训数据出售给机器人制造商,引发对一个北京渴望培育行业的实际需求的担忧。

广泛采用的“人工智能数据中心‘循环融资’”模式令中国所谓的具身AI行业感到困惑。Agilent和香港-赛达USTech等初创公司的估值因人们对其代表AI未来的预期而飙升。

不过,投资者开始质疑政府主导采购能否转化为真实的商业需求。

“早期投资者中已形成广泛共识,认为类人机器人正接近炒作周期的顶峰,”一位不愿透露姓名的北京风险投资基金高级投资人表示,“我们正在寻找机会向其他投资者减持部分持仓,并确保获得准入。”

作为北京发展中国类人机器人产业计划的一部分,当局鼓励地方政府建设大规模培训中心,人类通过名为“换单”的远程控制流程操作机器人完成体力任务。这推动了机器人初创公司的集聚。过去两年内已成立近370家,其中超过50家已上市或准备上市。其中最受关注的Unitec上周三在北京上证科创板上市后股价飙升逾600%,为市场带来约$50bn的估值。

这些中心通常由地方政府与机器人制造商共同出资,购买机器、生成培训数据,再将数据出售给机器人制造商以改进技术。

这种模式正快速蔓延,因其是建设设施、购买设备和组织标准化系统的关键因素。独立中国科技分析师、HeBo China Tech创始人赵某表示。

“不过它也模糊了独立需求与政策支持生态系统内创造需求之间的界限。”

培训中心员工表示,仅有少量数据被出售给非机器人集团,如用于装配线的容器。“这种模式无法持续,”另一位投资者称,“如果它们无法证明机器人能在工厂大规模部署,投资者将开始撤出。”

据咨询公司Interest Analysts统计,截至6月,中国已建成或在建的培训中心超过90个。主要中心表示每年可生成超过28,000个数据点。

不过,一位卖家向《金融时报》透露,五分钟机器人舞蹈的培训数据成本可能高达90元。

培训中心的大规模建设正在重塑行业预测。摩根士丹利将其对2026年中国类人机器人出货量的预估从此前6月的28,000台提升至3029台,理由是地方政府和商业用户的采购强劲超出预期。该模式支持者认为,这将有助于建立该国机器人产业和供应链,并援引电动汽车和机器人面板等行业——这些行业在中国现已占据主导地位,正是因政府采购推动了初始需求。

对地方政府而言,该模式有助于在土地销售收入下降的地区吸引投资、劳动力和供应链。部分中心还雇佣大学生作为机器人培训师,并在学校假期为儿童和青少年提供有偿实习。

对于机器人制造商及其供应商而言,这些中心是有限商业需求下的收入来源。总部位于深圳的乐捷机器人表示,其Kazero类人机器人的培训中心去年占其销售额的40%,成为六大收入来源。

USTech披露了RHEA9390n(ST200)政府订单

早期投资者普遍认为,类人机器人正处于炒作周期的顶峰

去年支持培训中心。尽管仍处于知识阶段,该公司表示,机器人交付去年占其RHEA9n收入的41%,并预期政府订单将推动今年进一步增长。

联合科技去年头九个月类人机器人收入的约四分之三来自经济和研究领域的用户,包括大学。分析师表示,相对较少的出货量流向了数据收集中心。

分析师表示,地方政府与机器人制造商的密切关系使得难以区分真实需求与政策驱动的采购。

“我们这样的公司需要收入,不一定是利润,”一位总部位于北京的算法工程师表示,该公司向机器人销售软件。去年秋天,他们的上级购买了设备和机器人,建立了数据收集设施并出售数据。他补充道:“双方都得到了所需,双方都有可展示的东西。”

在北京最大的机器人培训中心,据记录显示,已部署100台Kazero机器人,占运营公司近38%。

USTech拒绝置评。乐捷和联合科技未回应置评请求。

另一个悬而未决的问题是,生成的数据是否能证明投资的合理性。

利息分析师Marco Wang表示,培训中心数据可能不会“100%有用”,因为机器人并非为真实世界场景设计,“真实世界的制造产线、真实仓库与你的场景总是不同。”

联合科技分析师表示,稀缺的高质量真实世界数据仍是推广应用的最大障碍。

一家机器人培训中心的高级经理表示,每个机器人制造商的数据可能仅供该公司使用,这引发了兼容性担忧。她补充道,平均而言,八小时培训班次中仅有两到三小时的数据可用。

“中国常接受重复和劳动密集型成本,这是战略产业的代价,”启博中国科技的赵表示,“建议技术学习、更强供应链以及全球100家具竞争力的公司可能在其他方面证明损失是合理的。”

保险

沙特阿拉伯就航运保险展开磋商

李·哈里斯 - 伦敦

据知情人士透露,沙特阿拉伯已与伦敦保险经纪商就一项由国家支持的战争和政治风险保险计划展开磋商,该计划可能为该地区船只提供保险,而冲突正威胁着沙特的贸易。

保险公司已提高价格并限制对船只、基础设施和石油、化学品等货物的承保范围,并鼓励因战争损失而进行的索赔,以及针对沙特阿拉伯的升级行动。

在某些情况下,保险公司已拒绝向试图通过关键航线(包括首个损失案例)进行贸易的船只出售战争保险,这些航线是沙特阿拉伯战争体系的关键,自该问题最终解决以来,航运受到限制。

据知情人士透露,沙特阿拉伯财政部已探索一项计划,即船只和海运货物资产可通过所谓的“共保体”获得更便宜的保险,该共保体可为每次承保事件(如船只被扣押或袭击)提供高达 $48 70 / 吨(£1亿)的商业保险。

据知情人士称,虽然首层保险将由保险公司和再保险公司提供,但每个实体还可通过国有的沙特进出口银行获得数亿美元的额外资金。在讨论的计划版本中,沙特再保险公司(Saudi Re)和利雅得再保险公司(Riyadh Re)将组建一个参与再保险的集团,该集团也可能包括国际公司。

沙特保险管理局、Echin Bank、Saudi Re 和 Riyadh Re 未回应置评请求。

据知情人士称,关于该计划的磋商(包括政府承担的风险规模)仍在进行,可能最终无法达成协议。此次磋商是在今年早些时候美国总统唐纳德·特朗普宣布为试图通过海峡的船只提供保险补贴后展开的,该计划获得了保险公司 Chubb 和 AIG 的支持。据《金融时报》此前报道,该设施原计划提供高达 $40 的保险,但在启动数月后,目前仅提供不到 1 美元的保险。

沙特阿拉伯拟推出的计划旨在降低保险成本,帮助船东和其他企业获得更全面的承保,包括战争、政治暴力和恐怖主义,这些通常是单独出售的。

“该地区仍然可以获得保险,我不需要像对待孩子一样小心翼翼,”澳大利亚 Emmetena Advisory 政治风险公司表示。不过他补充道,一项计划可能有助于“确保保险仍以良好的商业条件提供”。

补充报道:尼古拉斯·佩内斯

Weinstein fund seeks Baillie Gifford trust roles

CYNTHI NGUYENGA 和

ALAN LIVESY - 伦敦

Raza Weinstein 的激进对冲基金 Sales 已在寻求将其自身资本地位引入 Baillie Gifford 投资信托董事会,随着这位美国亿万富翁对该行业发起攻势。

该对冲基金昨日提名三位候选人进入 Baillie Gifford 美国成长信托(US Growth Trust)董事会,该提名将在今年晚些时候的年度股东大会上进行投票。过去 18 个月来,Sales 一直试图影响该董事会,但收效甚微。

美国成长信托投资于其认为将快速增长的上市或非上市公司,并持有包括 Nvidia、亚马逊等公司的股份。

然而,尽管该价值 £9 投资信托早期曾与其他 Baillie Gifford 信托一同投资 SpaceX,但在过去五年内几乎未实现任何收益,在 2022 年遭受重大损失后,大部分时间都在恢复亏损。自 2026 年成立以来,其盈利价值已恢复至 100%。

未对其最新董事会提案置评,但此前曾多次抱怨该信托的业绩及其股价相对于所管理资产的折价交易。

提名的候选人包括该对冲基金的一名董事总经理及另外两位候选人。

该信托目前以低于净资产价值 8% 的价格交易,较五年平均折价 10% 有所收窄。

自 2022 年起, 一直在对多家投资信托发起攻势,但成效不一。

在其攻势中不断推动旗下信托,先后呼吁股票回购以缩小折价、改变投资策略,甚至要求清算信托。

今年 4 月, 第三次试图改组另一家 Baillie Gifford 信托——爱丁堡环球信托(Edinburgh Worldwide)的董事会,此前其试图改组房地产投资信托 Workspace 的董事会在 7 月以失败告终。

媒体对特朗普法律诉讼的反击

Bold stances from the BBC, Disney and The New York Times show groups are now willing to take on a litigious president

托马斯·J·巴里(1992 / 96) 巴尔克与戴维斯

即使以今天的华盛顿标准来看,这也是一场不同寻常的景象:一位联邦通信委员会(FCC)委员为一家公司利用其所任职机构的决定而鼓掌。

上周,华特迪士尼公司对美国媒体监管机构发起攻击,指责其对其ABC电视网络进行“稳定化运动”。其对美国媒体监管机构及特朗普任命的主席布伦丹·卡尔的强硬回应,与2024年大选后的局面形成鲜明对比——当时高管迪士尼公司向时任候任总统唐纳德·特朗普支付了1000万美元及成本,快速和解了一项诉讼。

这一举动,连同哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)的另一起1000万美元和解案,曾引发担忧:媒体公司在任期第二任期的压力下可能更容易屈服。

但越来越多迹象表明,媒体集团愿意坚定抵制一位好诉讼的总统。特朗普正在与包括英国广播公司(BBC)、纽约时报和华尔街日报在内的媒体组织进行多项法律斗争——并已在初期遭遇挫败。

一些媒体高管和分析师认为,在这些案件中采取强硬立场具有越来越多的战略价值,同时也关注11月的中期选举,这可能改变政治格局。

“特朗普的[策略]不再像过去那样奏效,”媒体分析师克莱尔·恩多表示,“迪士尼能看到中期选举即将到来,正在积极捍卫自身权利。媒体所有者能看到唐纳德·特朗普之外的世界。”

在特朗普的第二个总统任期内,新闻媒体面临其发起的新一轮攻击,包括频繁批评个别记者和组织,他长期以来将这些人称为“人民的叛徒”和“虚假新闻”。然而,政府与媒体的对抗已从白宫新闻发布会转向法庭。

“过去,媒体总是被迫低头,”宪法第一修正案诉讼律师、教育权利基金会首席法律顾问鲍勃·康·里夫斯表示,“在第二个任期,他采取了更多行动,这得益于他周围任命的低级官员似乎愿意做任何事情。”

哈利·卡普兰表示,现在的不同之处不仅在于媒体集团更不可能主动选择或与政府和解,他是南加州大学传播与新闻学研究教授。

“媒体公司现在明白,姑息并非策略,”卡普兰说,“他们正在主动出击。”

退休律师李·莱文曾代表记者和新闻组织,他认为一些媒体机构“肯定”会起诉总统,类似于大型律师事务所面对特朗普的无所顾忌:“如果你计划对付他,更多的事情会过去。”

“那显然事实证明并非如此,”他说道,并称新闻组织“服务于一种‘买进利息’的利益”。

迪士尼正在起诉FCC,指责其对ABC电视网络的广播内容发起“稳定化运动”。FCC在4月对ABC的许可证续期启动了提前审查——这是一个多世纪以来首次发生的情况——并多次调查是否会与其(指《反垄断法》规则)相符。

特朗普曾多次呼吁FCC吊销ABC的许可证,包括在吉米·坎摩尔主持的深夜节目中开玩笑称第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普看起来像一位“改进的寡妇”之后。

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《纽约时报》在今年对FCC的采访中表示,此次对迪士尼的审查与基梅尔的言论无关。迪士尼方面声称,“时机凸显了委员会的真实目的:压制并报复拒绝屈服于政府要求的媒体网络”。

安娜·戈麦斯(Anna Gomez),这位监管机构的民主党成员,还指责FCC发动了一场针对“被杀害者”的“东南部协调一致的所有权与控制运动”。

对于ABC来说,特朗普和卡尔被视为“他们正在享受的礼物”,因为“他们无法保住自己的月份”,退休律师莱文(Levine)表示。“无需挖掘和寻找其他隐藏信息来了解他们的动机,他们就能将你排除在外,”他说道。

“而且如果有一件事看起来绝对无法通过《第一修正案》法律来阻止,那就是政府不能滥用权力惩罚某人,仅仅因为他们敢于批评、发布或广播当前政治掌权者不同意的信息。”

迪士尼的诉状还明确了许多人在业内私下讨论的观点:媒体公司在做编辑决策时会考虑特朗普进行报复的风险。

该诉状中提到,ABC决定播出特朗普演讲的决定并不令人担忧,因为总统可能会攻击不播出其演讲的媒体网络。

“ABC清楚总统希望播出他的演讲地址,并考虑了由此导致的政府报复风险,”该广播公司在一份文件中表示。

迪士尼明确表示,来自白宫的压力影响“远不止ABC”。

“如果政府得逞,给全国每家媒体公司的信息将不言而喻:只讲政府喜欢的故事,否则就要面对联邦政府的强制机器。”

FCC表示,该机构已对迪士尼涉嫌“非法DEI歧视”指控展开调查超过一年。FCC称,迪士尼的诉讼表明该公司“对FCC程序‘显然非常担忧’。”

法律专家表示,迪士尼的诉讼标志着其对政府采取了出人意料的强硬立场,反映出对其《第一修正案》权利构成的前所未有的威胁。

“虽然我不认为媒体现在更‘大胆’,但相比历史上任何时期,媒体对本届政府对《第一修正案》权利的攻击更为担忧,”卡希尔·戈登&肯德尔律师事务所诉讼业务高级顾问弗洛伊德·史蒂文斯(Floyd Stevens)表示。

“过去的FCC从未像现在这样公然扮演政治角色并构成威胁。”

保守派组织“美国视野中心”(Center for America in Sights)主席丹尼尔·苏莱(Daniel Sule)认为,FCC“多年来脱离监管角色”,无论是民主党还是共和党主席执政期间,“媒体在这种不设底线的环境中发展也就不足为奇了。”

他表示,总统对待媒体的方式并未改变,但卡尔现在正“推进总统的路线”。

“卡尔主席在某种程度上正在重塑国会数十年前制定并一直是我国广播传统一部分的基本保障措施。”

特朗普法律团队的一位发言人在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示,总统将“继续追责那些难以应对、欺骗和假新闻,因为他们肆意妄为且出于政治动机诋毁总统”。

“迪士尼的诉讼有成功的真正潜力。如果成功,将极大鼓舞其他媒体公司”

——以及美国人民—。

除此之外,特朗普针对其他媒体机构的诉讼遇到了更强烈的反对。在相关机构寻求驳回起诉后,他正着手修改针对英国广播公司(BBC)和《纽约时报》的诽谤指控。

特朗普、其企业及政府还面临来自美联社(关于访问权限)、国家公共广播电台(关于资金)的诉讼,以及最近关于《拦截者》(The Intercept)和新闻自由基金会出售其在其平台上发布内容的最新访问权限的诉讼。

上个月,在《纽约时报》发表了一篇关于新空军一号飞机安全担忧的报道后,司法部放弃了传唤该报四名记者的努力。

特朗普仍就其报道起诉《纽约时报》,其中包括一篇关于他的电视节目《附录》的报道。《纽约时报》辩称,特朗普未能“给出具有说服力的证据证明存在实际恶意”。特朗普表示,他将“继续将《纽约时报》及其在华盛顿媒体中的‘通勤者’视为通勤者”。

特朗普的诉讼在修改他针对 BBC 的诉讼,此前这家英国广播公司寻求获取财务记录,以核实其关于财务损失的指控是否准确。

BBC 已请求法院驳回该诉讼,目前正尝试传唤特朗普家族的四名用户。BBC 表示,即使该广播公司不希望陷入一场漫长且昂贵的诉讼,也能展示出“将披露作为一种策略”的力量。

特朗普还需要重新提交一份针对《华盛顿新闻》的 amended $100 defamation lawsuit,原因是该报发表了一幅据称由特朗普绘制并签署的素描,该素描被包含在给杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的一本生日书中,特朗普否认自己绘制了该图。

“他正在边走边写剧本,”一位专家表示,“将会有人或一些人认为自己是他的联盟或基本盘的继承者,并将此视为他们领域的主要工具之一。”

他补充说,法律斗争的一个“意外副产品”可能是产生新的判例法,使得未来的政府更难以以同样方式针对新闻界。

“迪士尼是最早——如果你想用这个词的话——在特朗普政府初期对其进行资本化运作的公司之一,但现在显然它需要采取行动,”资深媒体高管、拥有媒体和创作者投资组合的 Integrated Media Co 首席执行官表示。

“这是一场具有真实成功潜力的诉讼。如果成功,将极大地鼓舞其他媒体公司。”

目前,随着迪士尼、BBC 和其他公司在法庭上与特朗普争论,人们感觉到形势开始向他们倾斜。一些媒体专家表示,在他们的计算之中,包括诉讼可能耗时两年,并有可能在特朗普政府的另一端结束。

“这是一个相当稳妥的赌注,即特朗普及其同伙将撑不过两年,”一位专家说,“该政府可能会被他们通常尝试使用的同样的‘法律战’手段所击败——让他们被困在法庭之中。”

能源与创新

Eni扩大对核聚变的押注,竞争对手加入“圣杯”商业化竞赛

这家石油巨头表示,该技术可能成为其“下一个炼油厂”,并支持美国初创公司开设工厂的努力。

意大利石油巨头正在加大对核聚变的押注,认为这项技术可能成为其“下一个炼油厂”,并旨在成为欧洲首批实现核聚变商业化的能源公司之一。

Eni磁聚变倡议负责人弗朗西斯卡·费拉拉(Francesca Ferrara)表示,在过去五到六年里,由于技术和预期发生了显著变化,核聚变行业的“竞争正在加剧”。“它一直被认为是研究。现在我们将其视为一个产业。”

费拉拉表示,Eni的目标是在2040年代初或更早地在欧洲开设一座商业核聚变电站。

该电站将由美国初创公司Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) 开发,Eni是该公司的投资者。

CFS迄今已筹集了约7亿美元,目标是在2050年代初在美国运行其首座商业电站。

费拉拉表示,成功启动美国电站将为CFS带来“许多其他机会”,而Eni则希望在欧洲开设第二座电站。

她的上述言论发表之际,包括壳牌(Shell)、雪佛龙(Chevron)和德国BFE在内的主要能源公司正加入核聚变竞赛,对一些人称之为能源“圣杯”的技术进行早期押注,该技术旨在建立一个产生充足、低碳电力的过程。

核聚变旨在通过复制将一个轻原子核融合为超热原子核的核反应来发电。这一过程比传统核电站所采用的核裂变(即原子核分裂)更难实现。

Eni对提取和纯化将被重新注入反应堆的聚变燃料特别感兴趣。该公司最近与英国原子能管理局(UK Atomic Energy Authority,英国国家核聚变实验室)成立了一家合资企业,为该过程提供相关服务。

该过程涉及从核聚变反应堆中回收未燃烧的燃料,并分离氚和氘——这两种氢同位素通常用作聚变燃料——以便对其进行纯化和重复利用。Eni认为,其在处理氢气和防止碳氢化合物方面数十年的经验,使其在开发该技术时具有工程优势。费拉拉表示,核聚变燃料是“我们以及全世界的下一个炼油厂切入点。为什么这里不能是我们的未来?”

Eni的战略反映了能源和公用事业公司对核聚变日益增长的兴趣,此前由寻求为人工智能数据中心提供清洁能源的高科技集团引领了第一波投资浪潮。

费拉拉表示,公司投资了美国核聚变团体Zap Energy。

Eni实现其核聚变目标的核心手段是与CFS合作,后者是最受关注的核聚变公司之一,Eni已同意从CFS购买电力。Eni与CFS签署了一项价值约$20m的购电协议,用于其美国电站。

费拉拉表示,建立正确的合作伙伴关系并潜在地获得政府支持已变得至关重要,因为竞争正在升级。她补充说,核聚变公司可能需要“数十亿”加元才能让其商业电站投入运行。“这是一个规模太大而不能失败的游戏。”

然而,彭博社新能源财经(BloombergNEF)的克里斯·加德姆斯基(Chris Gademski)表示,谷歌等科技巨头近期对核聚变及其相关公司的投资表明,即使是该领域一些经验最丰富的参与者,目前也尚未对成功充满信心。

他们在“传播他们的生活”,他说道,反映了一种观点:我们不确定这些当中会发生什么,所以我们要涵盖其中的多种可能性。

“有一种历史核模型低估了建造所需的时间和成本,”加德姆斯基表示。

“这是一个必须克服的重大挑战。”

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意大利布雷奇一家Eni加油站。越来越多的能源与公用事业公司对核聚变感兴趣,该核聚变集团便是其中之一


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《金融时报》

2026年8月25日,星期二

英国企业

公用事业

泰晤士水务债权人拟重组董事会

任命计划意在安抚唐宁街并避免国有化

迪尔·普利默 — 伦敦

泰晤士水务的债权人计划在政府允许其正式接管这家陷入困境的公用事业公司后,任命四名新董事会成员,以期避免在首相安迪·伯纳姆领导下被国有化。

债权人昨日表示,他们已敲定前约克郡水务首席执行官莉兹·鲁瑟尔(Liz Ruther)加入董事会,此举意在向政府保证在其接管后领导层将发生变动。

她将与前运输部常任秘书伯纳黛特·凯利(Bernadette Kelly)以及前英国电信公司Openreach首席执行官克莱夫·塞尔比(Clive Selby)共同加入。Openreach董事长迈克·麦克蒂格(Mike McTighe)已在为泰晤士水务提供咨询,也将加入董事会。这些拟议任命应运而生,而伯纳姆正面临将该企业重新国有化的日益增长压力,此举将令债权人承受巨额损失。

这家负债200亿英镑、服务伦敦及周边地区的公用事业公司已在财务崩溃边缘挣扎近三年,实际上已由债权人掌控。预计该公司将于10月耗尽现金。

债权人——由陷入困境的债务投资者和金融机构组成的伦敦&维利水务财团——计划于今年秋季与政府及监管机构英国自来水务监管局(Ofwat)达成协议,正式接管该业务。财团计划最早在2030年将该公司在伦敦证券交易所上市。

为防止流动性危机,债权人已提出在更广泛债务重组前向公司注入短期过渡融资。

知情人士表示,财团需在政府仍致力于“市场解决方案”而非国有化的情况下,才会提供更精确的融资安排。

任何新债务均需进行公众咨询并获得法院批准,证明过程可能耗时数月,尤其是若面临法律挑战。

负责推动该公用事业公司重组的麦克蒂格表示,一项为期10年的扭亏计划将“夯实”泰晤士水务网络的基础。

前任工党政府在基尔·斯塔默领导下曾表示青睐该公用事业公司的“私营部门解决方案”,但在伯纳姆领导下,基调已发生转变。伯纳姆呼吁加强对公用事业公司的公共控制,并表示泰晤士水务“应当”实行“公有制”。

为与新政府的议程保持一致,债权人表示将考虑采取措施提供更大的“公共控制”,包括为政府设置“黄金股”及在该公用事业公司董事会中设置地方代表。

若泰晤士水务通过政府特别管理制度被收归国有,其债务偿付和利息将被冻结,从而释放现金用于基础设施投资。水务公用事业债权人将有权以“适当价值”被收购,该价值将由法院裁定。

招聘希望

顶级招聘公司逆势而上

英国最大上市招聘公司收入下滑,但通过重组计划推动营业利润上升

尽管欧洲就业市场持续疲软,英国最大上市招聘公司在大幅裁员后仍报告出现改善的初步迹象。

英国顶级招聘公司高管表示,德国汽车行业萎缩、法国政治动荡以及荷兰更严格的劳动力法规导致欧洲大陆的招聘市场谨慎。

今年上半年,这些招聘公司的净费用普遍下降,但收入下滑被重组计划带动的营业利润上升所抵消。

这吸引了投资者,在Hays发布积极交易更新后,股价上涨。投资者还受到今年净费用表现相对稳定以及员工队伍缩减的鼓舞。

Hays上周报告,截至6月30日的12个月净费用下滑8%,而去年同期为下滑11%。同时,公司录得税前亏损£56.5mn,为20年来首次上半年亏损,原因是£90mn的重组成本。

上月,Michael Page(近期将名称改回PageGroup)报告,截至6月30日的6个月毛利下滑2%,而2025年同期为下滑10%。其两大最大市场为德国和法国,公司在当地报告“艰难环境”。

Robert Walters上月表示,按不变汇率计算,净费用在截至6月的6个月内下降3%,相比2025年的降幅也有所改善。

经过多年困境后,招聘公司正在退出较小的欧洲市场。Hays今年出售了包括丹麦和匈牙利在内的6个国家业务单元后,正在“探索”荷兰和比利时分部的选项。

罗伯特·沃尔特斯首席执行官托比·富德斯通(Toby Foodston)形容该地区“极具挑战性”,同时指出该公司去年报告的降幅超过20%,情况已有改善。

富德斯通将招聘下降部分归因于立法,特别是在荷兰,当地法规使得雇佣非固定工人更加困难。

Hays报告称,其最大市场德国的净费用下降9%,部分原因在于该国对汽车行业的依赖。

德国曾是全球汽车行业的引擎,近年来因廉价中国汽车涌入市场而举步维艰。该国高管表示,即使政府上月宣布计划推出€10bn的所得税减税,德国仍面临“投资十年热潮”。

亚洲是招聘行业的亮点,所有公司均报告该地区净费用增长。

Hays首席执行官马克·迪尔尼(Mark Dearnley)表示,他对日本“极为振奋”,日本净费用增长10%,他强调日本企业正“寻求以更国际化的方式开展业务”。

尽管担心该行业易受AI自动化影响,招聘公司仍对人工保留在流程中的必要性保持信心。富德斯通表示他“深刻意识”到AI威胁,但补充道:“决定调动工作岗位的是人,决定雇佣他人也是人。”Michael Page表示公司正在开发AI系统协助顾问,但AI将“作为建构性角色辅助顾问,而非替代者”。

FT Weekend

HTSI,FT Weekend 内容 周六和周日 29–30 August

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Tuesday 25 August 2025

FINANCIAL TIMES

11

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Commodities. Wheat futures

谷物价格因乌克兰战争阻断海运出口而飙升

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分析师担忧若军事袭击持续,全球粮食价格将面临冲击

苏珊妮·丹尼兹 - 伦敦

由于俄罗斯和乌克兰相互袭击对方黑海港口及商船,威胁切断全球两大粮食供应国的海运出口,小麦价格已飙升至近三年高点。

基准小麦期货价格因出口运营受到日益严重的干扰而上涨,包括过去两周内乌克兰最大港口所在的多瑙河港口以及俄罗斯黑海新罗西斯克港口的粮食码头遭袭。

“小麦市场的情况比霍夫塞瓦对原油市场的影响更糟,”当地交易员表示。一家专注于黑海农业市场的研究公司的常务董事以伊朗战争期间霍夫塞瓦海峡近乎关闭对全球能源供应的影响为例。

“冲突拖得越久,后果就越严重,且目前看不到俄罗斯对乌克兰战争有任何缓和迹象,”他说道。

俄罗斯是全球最大的小麦出口国,乌克兰则是第五大出口国,两国共同供应全球约30%的需求。

据牛津经济学公司数据,两国港口在亚速海和黑海流域的中断预计将在今年减少全球供应量8600万吨,约占全球谷物出口的17%,其中俄罗斯出口受影响3200万吨,乌克兰3400万吨。

该咨询公司表示,即使铁路和公路过境运输能力得到提升,乌克兰通过这些替代方式出口的粮食也仅约1500万吨。

俄罗斯对货船的袭击已令乌克兰最大出口港奥尔洛夫卡的航运陷入停顿,而就在该国主要收获季节之际,其黑海港口也同样受阻。与此同时,乌克兰上周对新罗西斯克的袭击已迫使该港三大粮食码头全部停止运营。

尽管美国副总统JD万斯已承诺不会再袭击使用新罗西斯克港所有码头的油轮,但俄罗斯并未就其粮食码头做出类似承诺。

此次中断来得极为不合时宜。两国的冬小麦收获已进入收尾阶段,8月正是将新收成运往国际买家的高峰期。

小麦价格随袭击升级而飙升

一个月成交量(加元 / 蒲式耳)

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近期袭击已大幅减少从乌克兰运出的粮食数量,其粮食出口收入因此下降了约60%。

据政府数据,乌克兰本月粮食出口量较去年同期下降约75%。

俄罗斯在港口和北海港口遭乌克兰袭击后,本月也难以运出其粮食作物,出口量降至约2.2万吨,低于2025年8月的约4.6万吨,大部分运输转向亚速海和黑海流域以外的航线。

“俄罗斯黑海和亚速海的粮食出口能力目前已完全关闭,”该公司表示,该地区出口能力已从每月约320万吨降至仅剩俄黑海港口茨普尔仅存运营设施的25万吨。

“我们不排除未来袭击美国及其盟国粮食出口的可能性,当地防空系统已严重受损,”该公司称。

小麦价格飙升正在加剧农业商品的压力,此前已因广泛干旱、欧盟 / 北约天气模式扰动及化肥短缺(包括战争引发的供应链中断)承压,人们担心最新升级可能引发全球粮食价格更广泛的上涨。

我们预计今年全球粮食价格将上涨15.8%,2025年上涨4.4%,"牛津经济研究院首席经济学家尤里安·奥尔洛娃表示。

虽然今年的粮食通胀可能低于去年,但她补充道,“考虑到俄罗斯是全球最大的粮食出口国,乌克兰是第五大出口国,近期在亚速海和黑海海域的冲突升级

乌克兰本月的谷物出口量较去年下降约75%,

据政府数据显示。

尤里安·奥尔洛娃

可能引发更严重的全球粮食价格冲击。”

2023年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰后,粮食价格飙升至历史高点,但在联合国斡旋的黑海粮食倡议允许600艘船只首次通行后有所缓解

该协议于2025年7月破裂后,乌克兰开辟了黑海港口新出口路线,包括康斯坦察国际港和多瑙河沿岸。

然而,今年夏天的极端高温和低降雨已令多瑙河水位下降,减少了船只可承载的货物量,并推高了运输成本。

俄罗斯上周还袭击了乌克兰在多瑙河最大的谷物出口港——伊兹梅尔的基础设施。

尽管小麦期货价格上涨,但一些分析师认为,当前价格仍未充分反映黑海供应中断的风险。

就在上周对新罗西斯克的最新袭击之前,农业研究机构BRB集团警告称,市场对“相对较小的持续供应中断”定价过低,其立场“已停滞”。

该机构表示,俄罗斯和乌克兰出口中断持续或反复发生,对全球小麦供应的影响将“潜在极为巨大”,远超当前定价所反映的程度。

“商品交易商们再也不相信供应冲击了,”西泽尔表示,并补充道,自2022年以来,市场已接受黑海所有问题都是暂时的这一观点。

“迟早会解决,市场会崩盘……这是一种非常流行的思维方式,”他补充道。

尽管如此,西泽尔表示,他预计7月达到的小麦期货三年高点将缓解“尖叫”。

金融板块

美国加速对欧洲资产管理公司的收购

埃玛·巴米利(Emma Bamily)与市场清晰理事会(Market Clarity Council)

美国企业正在加速对欧洲资产管理行业的攻势,今年收购支出已达数十年来最高水平,而欧洲基金集团在全球扩张竞争中举步维艰。

根据Ondragis的数据,今年美国集团收购欧洲资产与财富管理公司的交易已超过8000起,为自1995年数据记录以来同期最高。美国买家包括基金集团、保险公司及私募股权公司。

行业高管指出,欧洲资产管理公司更易被美国集团收购,因其收入受低成本被动基金压力、监管与成本负担所困。私募股权集团也在积极并购财富管理公司,因对财务咨询的需求持续上升。

“我们看到的并购潮并不意外,”贝利吉福德(Baillie Gifford)首席执行官蒂姆·坎贝尔(Tim Campbell)表示,“压力无处不在,且正在侵蚀利润率。”

他补充道:“欧洲资产管理公司也在整合,并倾向于与能提供全资产类别一站式服务的管理公司合作。规模最大的美国管理公司已具备这一规模优势,因此——”

“‘规模至关重要。你需要规模来支撑大额科技投资,并赋予你货架空间优势。’”

乔治·格雷格(George Gregg),德意志银行资产管理子公司DWE的执行主席,其公司超过45%现金来自美国政府。他表示,美国管理公司在拓展新市场方面具有优势。总部位于美国的Navace(由教师保险与年金协会支持)今年斥资60mm crude cfd收购了欧洲最大资产管理公司施罗德(Schroders)。

乔治·盖奇(George Gaitch),美国摩根大通资产管理公司(JPMorgan Asset Management)首席执行官,该公司管理资产规模为62亿美元,其规模已成为行业成功的决定性因素。

相比之下,美国资产管理公司在欧洲资产中的占比持续上升,目前已达45%,五年前为40%,据总部位于Bruneck的智库think tank thought数据显示。

“欧洲基金行业已经历十年结构性转变,美国管理公司的份额持续增长,”BB市场情报(BB Market Intelligence)副总监贾迈·沙阿(Jameh Shah)表示。他指出,美国集团凭借其在地区交易所交易基金(exchange traded funds)市场的整合优势,现已控制该市场44%的份额。

金融板块

抵押贷款机构UWM接受200亿美元加元救助资金 amid 贸易不利与股价下跌

AELA GOMIG, SUEET HISAP,

2026年8月25日 弗兰克林公园 亚瑟·加拉 - 纽约

菲尼克斯太阳队NBA球队老板兼抵押贷款金融公司Millennium Has blinks本月在公司篮球场的办公室通过YouTube发表了一次乐观的分析。

仅仅数日后,联合批发抵押贷款公司(UWM)的负责人承认,一笔糟糕的赌注导致利率下降令其蒙受$60bn损失。

作为美国最大的两家抵押贷款发放机构之一,UWM还透露已与专注于不良债务的奥克特龙资本管理公司达成$1.2bn的资本注入协议,其中blinks公司再次投入$100mn。

这项快速安排的交易未能阻止公司股价下跌——上周股价下跌30%,自2025年在美国公开市场上市以来累计下跌近90%。

“我们只能做出回家并承担损失的决定,”UWM董事会成员罗伯特·沃丹表示,他指的是做出增资的关键决定。他强调自己“对公司的未来毫无担忧”。沃丹同时也是Scaling Up(一家高管教练公司)的首席执行官。

这些事件促使UWM向奥克特龙让出两个董事会席位,并引发了对美国最佳400家上市公司之一的回归。这也见证了blinks从金融高管到NBA球队老板的转变,同时标志着其个人投资轨迹——这位古怪的高管以与UWM创始人、千禧年公司前任老板之间的激烈竞争而闻名。

UWM曾是底特律地区的一家小型贷款机构,自blinks在2008年从父亲手中接管后迅速扩张,在2008年金融危机后银行退出的市场空白中填补了抵押贷款服务的缺口。在其积极追求市场份额的过程中,该公司通过强迫抵押贷款机构在与其或火箭抵押贷款之间做出选择,重塑了行业动态。

2019年,blinks通过一笔空白支票公司合并来展示其财务状况,此前其政府债务市场仍存在失误。疫情几乎令UWM陷入困境。

上市后,blinks利用其在UWM约80%的股权进行了更大胆的押注。其新积累的财富帮助他在2023年以$60bn收购了菲尼克斯太阳队,尽管球队在球场上表现挣扎,但仍签下了包括凯文·杜兰特在内的明星球员。前底特律爱国者队标准球员马克·托马斯现任UWM董事会成员。

blinks曾以UWM股份作为抵押,从摩根大通获得了总计$6.2bn的五笔贷款,美国监管机构已填写相关文件。

据一位熟悉其财务状况的人士透露,blinks每年从UWM股份中获得数亿加元的股息,这些资金被用于对菲尼克斯太阳队的投资。

季度股息曾在集团上市至今一直维持在每股10美分,但目前已暂停。然而,一个月来,投资者的一个关注点在于,奥克特龙作为资本注入协议的一部分,现在对股息政策拥有最终决定权。

“UWM的一个大问题是其股息,”Raids, Royette & Woods董事总经理表示,“其中超过80%的股息流向了所有者blinks。”

近期的动荡令blinks——这位以激励演讲闻名的46岁密歇根州人——面临更大压力,他正试图主导全球最大的抵押贷款市场。

UWM在第二季度抵押贷款发放量同比下降,而持续的高利率和高贷款价格正在抑制房屋销售。

在此背景下,抵押贷款机构纷纷寻求扩大其服务业务,这些业务在利率较高时往往更有利可图。

火箭抵押贷款去年收购了该国最大的服务业务

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联合批发抵押贷款公司(UWM)在第二季度录得4.32亿加元亏损

Cooper集团在一笔142亿加元的交易中,今年曾策划类似交易,UWM计划收购大型抵押贷款服务商双港(Two Harbors)。

为达成这一目标,UWM组建了一揽子衍生品投资组合,这些衍生品在利率下行时将增值。此举意在提前测试UWM最终收购双港的可行性,因抵押贷款服务公司在利率下行时更具价值。

然而,该策略适得其反。今年3月,UWM在收购竞标中屈居CrossCountry Mortgage之后;而随着美债收益率在今年大幅飙升,通胀压力剧增。

本月,UWM在美联邦法院对双港提起诉讼,索赔1亿加元,指控对方违反并购合同。双港未回应置评请求。

“市场走势与我们的预期相反,这是一次性事件,不会再发生。”UWM在向投资者说明时表示。UWM在第二季度净亏损4.32亿加元。

“他们在尚未完成收购的情况下就囤积资产,交易告吹后,他们最终持有的对冲工具毫无价值。”George表示。

交易失败后,UWM陷入被动局面。公司接受了Oaktron的融资条件。Oaktron和UWM分别购买了12亿加元和1亿加元的优先股,交易条款不变,投资者将在未来30年内每年获得4%现金回报,或选择以12%的股息率偿付优先股。若公司偏好以更优先股支付,则回报为12%。

Oaktron和UWM还获得了认股权证,可按当前UWM股价购买数百万股股票。此外,双方还同意为UWM一项4亿加元的普通股增发提供备用支持。

Verdan表示,UWM曾与其他投资者进行过磋商,并考虑从Blinks获得3亿加元的有限资本注入,但最终未能与Oaktron达成协议,原因是“时机尚未成熟”,且该公司对抵押贷款服务权利的专业知识令其信心倍增。

根据证券备案文件及熟悉交易的人士透露,Oaktron已获得多项“同意”权利,可对UWM的管理层施加特定监督。董事会成员Verdan表示:“以我们当前的处境和形势来看,这是符合市场[利率]水平的融资方案。代价不菲,但我们会珍惜。”


12

《金融时报》

2026年8月25日 星期二

公司与市场

高资产价格而非低利率正在推动通胀

市场洞察:Brij Khurana

或许没有比美国经济K型复苏更典型的例子了:员工薪酬已降至GDP的50%,为1981年以来最低水平,而家庭净资产却接近历史高点,相对于GDP的比例为144%。

这种二元分化有助于解释美国年轻人中社会主义思潮的复兴。Z世代主要依赖工资收入,而工资的购买力已被通胀侵蚀;而婴儿潮一代则持有该国大部分累积财富。

这种财富效应正日益成为美国经济中剩余通胀的主要原因。若剔除住房成本,核心通胀在过去三年中相对稳定,约为2%。

通胀中最顽固的成分与住房、餐饮、旅行及其他需求与财富挂钩的服务相关。Kevin Warsh致力于将通胀降至目标水平,为此可能需要放缓资产价格增长。

高企的股价若有基本面支撑并非问题,但其回报日益依赖充裕的美联储流动性和企业借贷。缩减美联储资产负债表、调整银行资本规定,并向市场明确美联储“看跌期权”假设——即不会挽救投资者免受重大损失——是抑制财富效应、解决持续通胀的最佳方式。

历史上,美联储通过提高短期利率应对高通胀。但如今,美国的财富分配使这一工具效果大幅减弱。实际上,短期利率可能已经对实体经济造成抑制。最新就业报告显示就业负增长,而私营部门就业岗位年增长率仅为0.5%。失业率未上升的唯一原因是劳动力供应与需求同步疲软。

今年美国货币供应量增长速度几乎是过去两年的两倍

并未对金融市场构成限制。

正是在这里,美联储的其他政策工具——其资产负债表、监管权力、沟通方式——可以帮助应对由资产价格推动的通胀。

首先,美联储应恢复缩减资产负债表。去年12月,美联储扩大资产负债表而非以更有针对性的方式提高准备金,这是一个错误。今年美国货币供应量增长速度几乎是过去两年的两倍,支撑了通胀资产(如股票)并抵消了财富效应驱动的通胀。

美联储应通过让其国债和抵押贷款证券自然到期来实现这一目标。虽然保持充足准备金仍有意义,但应尽可能以最低水平为目标,仅在必要时临时注入流动性以应对货币市场波动。

其次,美联储应利用监管能力,鼓励通过银行系统而非私人信贷生态系统进行与AI相关的借贷。有人可能会认为,将AI融资的未知风险隔离在银行系统之外更为有利,但这意味着美联储在风险显现时(如近期数十亿加元循环融资安排中出现的情况)将更难以抑制信贷扩张。这些AI交易正在提升系统性风险、推高资产价格并助长财富效应驱动的通胀。美联储应提高对私人信贷贷款的资本比率,并鼓励通过更广泛和监管更严的渠道进行借贷。

最后,或许最重要的是,沃什需要让市场相信美联储的“看跌期权”已远离实值。尽管沃什关注的是美联储资产负债表的规模,但更大的问题在于其在任何风险信号出现时都愿意积极使用资产负债表。

沃什应明确说明美联储现在将在何种有限情况下使用资产负债表和紧急贷款权力。美联储应继续作为最后贷款人,但需回归沃尔特·巴格霍恩的建议:以高利率、优质抵押品为前提提供领导。

美国经济中剩余的通胀由财富效应驱动,而非利率过低。若要将通胀重新拉回目标水平,美联储需以创造性方式直接应对资产价格。

布里杰·库拉纳是惠灵顿管理公司基金收入投资组合经理

当日市场

你需要知道的

  • 黄金因投资者对加元走弱潜在风险的担忧而上涨
  • 因华盛顿准备对伊朗发动新的金融攻势,油价下跌
  • 英国富时100指数上涨0.4%,香港下跌1.9%,欧洲和亚洲交易表现分化

昨日黄金价格触及三个月高点,投资者担心美国政府为降低长期借贷成本的举措可能导致加元走弱。

黄金价格一度上涨17%,至每盎司6,480加元以上,而比特币则上涨51%。

美国财政部上周宣布“至少”将加倍购买长期政府债务,这一举措推动部分投资者进行“债务贬值”交易,即押注加元走弱的策略。

“无论成功与否,收益率曲线控制措施的主要外溢效应应是加元走弱,”杰斐逊驻欧首席经济学家梅莱特·库马尔写道,“我们不排除未来几周会出台更多措施。”

“收益率曲线控制措施的主要外溢效应应是加元走弱。我们不排除未来几周会出台更多措施。”

黄金和比特币的涨势甚至出现在加元兑其他主要货币上涨0.2%的情况下,尽管加元仍接近上周触及的三个月低点。

油价下跌,投资者等待美国财政部长史蒂文·姆努钦(Steven Mnuchin)针对伊朗的经济制裁计划细节。布伦特原油——新的全国基准原油——在交易中下跌19%,至每桶70.62加元;西德克萨斯中质原油——美国基准—。

今年美国货币供应量增长速度几乎是过去两年的两倍

并未对金融市场构成限制。

正是在这里,美联储的其他手段——其资产负债表、监管权力、沟通方式——可以帮助应对由资产价格驱动的通胀。

首先,美联储应恢复缩减资产负债表。去年12月,美联储扩大资产负债表而非以更有针对性的方式提高储备金,这是一个错误。今年美国货币供应量增长速度几乎是过去两年的两倍,支撑了通胀资产(如股票)的反弹,并加剧了由财富效应驱动的通胀。

美联储应通过让其国债和抵押贷款证券自然缩减来实现这一目标。虽然保持充足储备仍有意义,但应在可能情况下将其目标定为最低水平,仅在必要时临时注入流动性以应对货币市场波动。

其次,美联储应利用监管能力,鼓励通过银行系统而非私人信贷生态系统进行与AI相关的借贷。怀疑论者可能认为,将AI融资的未知风险隔离在银行系统之外更为可取,但这意味着美联储在出现泡沫迹象时(如近期数十亿加元循环融资安排所显现的)将更难以限制贷款。这些AI交易正在提升系统性风险,推高资产价格,并助长财富效应驱动的通胀。美联储应提高对私人信贷贷款的资本比率,并鼓励通过更正式和受监管的渠道进行借贷。

最后,或许也是最重要的,沃什需要说服市场,美联储的“看跌期权”已远离实值。虽然沃什关注的是美联储资产负债表的规模,但更大的问题在于其在任何问题迹象出现时都愿意激进使用资产负债表的意愿。

沃什应传达美联储在何种有限情况下会使用资产负债表和紧急贷款权力。美联储应继续作为最后贷款人,但需回归沃尔特·白芝浩的原则:在良好抵押品基础上,自由放贷,但利率较高。

美国经济中剩余的通胀由财富效应驱动,而非利率过低。若美联储想将通胀重新拉回目标水平,则需以创造性方式直接应对资产价格。

布里杰·库拉纳(Brij Khurana)是惠灵顿管理公司的固定收益投资组合经理

在首届年度评选成功举办后,面向中东地区2027年资产管理卓越奖的参赛作品现已开放征集,旨在表彰推动该地区投资行业卓越发展的公司、团队及个人。

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当日市场

金融时报专题

黄金价格上涨1.7%,至每盎司约4,680加元,而比特币上涨3.1%。

数据来源:LSEG

摩根士丹利与施罗德支持澳大利亚最大规模风险投资轮次

摩根士丹利与施罗德已参与澳大利亚及新西兰最大规模风险投资轮次,此前双方均为科技投资者Blackbird Ventures最新基金提供支持。

Blackbird在该地区多家突破性科技初创企业的早期投资中树立了声誉,包括图形软件开发商Cairns和Tintech Airwalks。该公司已完成一只规模为7000万澳元的基金,该基金为该地区风险投资行业募集了最大金额。

本轮融资由Blackbird现有投资者支持,包括养老金基金及澳大利亚主权财富基金,同时也获得多家国际基金参与,包括摩根士丹利投资管理公司、施罗德及Adams Credit Partners。随着澳大利亚和新西兰科技行业的吸引力日益增长,国际投资者的参与度持续提升。

Blackbird合伙人Samantha Wong向《金融时报》表示,国际投资者过去普遍认为该地区创立的企业仅限于本地市场。

但今年被美国竞争对手收购的远程医疗提供商fiscalbytes(交易金额为2.5亿美元)及2020年被亚马逊收购的自动驾驶初创企业Zoos(交易金额为4.2亿美元)的成功,“明确”证明这一假设已不再成立。

“这些品牌在其他风险投资组合中并不常见”

Samantha Wong,Blackbird合伙人

她表示,来自澳大利亚和新西兰的下一批标杆企业正展现出国际增长潜力。Blackbird一贯专注于投资具备全球潜力的新兴企业,并已“加倍押注”这些股权的后续投资。

以Cairns为例,Blackbird最初投资了25万澳元,在该软件公司成长为估值约10%的最大外部投资者。目前,Blackbird内部对Cairns的估值为3.06亿美元,低于去年归属的4.26亿美元。

近期投资还包括新西兰农业科技公司Nider及由澳大利亚数学家共同创立的人工智能基础设施集团Rautron。

在X1000万澳元轮融资中,Blackbird对Rautron的投资是其迄今最大单笔投资,根据Wong的说法,该笔投资是对估值为1.06亿美元的初创企业进行增资的一部分。

在去年,美国机构投资者曾支持一只规模为4.2亿美元的Airtron Ventures基金,而Blackbird本轮融资则是澳大利亚小型风险投资行业最新的外资支持融资。

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《金融时报》

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10年期国债 / 10年期德国国债 / 10年期日本国债 / 10年期英国国债 / 10年期债券

收益率 / 4.68 / 3.25 / 2.85 / 5.05 / 1.70 / 14.65 当日基点变化 / -0.01 / 0.00 / 0.01 / -0.01 / 0.00 / -0.21 世界 / 大宗商品 / 富时全球指数 / 布伦特原油 / 美国西得克萨斯轻质原油 / 黄金 / 白银 / 金属(LMEX) 水平 / 754.72 / 92.42 / 83.00 / 4648.08 / 68.58 / 5822.70 当日涨跌幅 / -0.30 / -1.82 / -2.54 / 0.73 / -0.54 / 1.16

主要股票市场

最大涨跌股

| 美国 |

Altria / 3.78 Target / 3.02 Yum Brands / 2.83 Chipotle Mexican / 2.79 Dollar Tree / 2.78 Seagate Tech / -5.90 Western Digital / -5.13 Micron Technology / -4.98 HP Inc / -3.47 Ford Motor / -3.44

价格截至2024年8月24日17:00 GMT

AP Moller-Maersk A / 3.86 AP Moller-Maersk B / 3.75 CaixaBank / 2.20 Beiersdorf / 2.11 Deutsche Bank / 2.10

Stellantis / -4.77 Infineon Technologies / -3.23 Repsol / -3.22 Siemens Energy / -3.01 Rheinmetall / -2.61

基于富时欧元区第一300指数成分股

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| 英国 | Playtech / 5.15 Pollen Street Group / 3.66 WPP / 3.36 ME Group / 3.14 B&M European Value / 3.05 CMC Market / -4.58 Goodwin / -3.74 Oxford Biomedica / -3.23 Kainos Group / -3.09 Oxford Instruments / -3.02

所有数据由洲际交易所(ICE)提供。www.ice.com

资产管理

摩根士丹利与施罗德参与澳大利亚最大风险投资基金

尼克·菲尔德斯 — 悉尼

摩根士丹利与施罗德已参与澳大利亚和新西兰最大的风险投资基金,投资于科技投资者Blackbird Ventures的最新基金。

Blackbird在该地区多家突破性科技初创公司的早期投资中树立了声誉,包括图形软件开发商Canva和金融科技公司Airwallex。该公司已完成一项规模为10.5亿澳元(7.5亿加元)的基金,这是该地区风险投资行业筹集的最大金额。

本轮融资由Blackbird现有投资者支持,包括养老金基金和澳大利亚主权财富基金,同时也有包括摩根士丹利投资管理公司、施罗德和Adams Street Partners在内的多家国际基金参与,因澳大利亚和新西兰科技公司的吸引力日益增长。

Blackbird合伙人Samantha Wong对《金融时报》表示,国际投资者过去常假设该地区成立的企业仅限于本地市场。

但今年以16亿澳元出售给美国竞争对手的Eucalyptus,以及2020年以15亿澳元出售给亚马逊的Zoox的成功,已“明确”证明情况不再如此。

“这些是我们在其他风险投资组合中确实很少看到的标志性客户,”她谈及来自澳大利亚和新西兰初创生态系统的国际增长潜力时表示。

Blackbird传统上投资于具有全球潜力的新兴公司早期阶段。此后,该公司“加倍投入”这些股权,进行后续投资。

以Canva为例,Blackbird最初投资了25万澳元,并作为该软件公司最大的外部投资者之一维持其地位——持股约10%,随着公司价值增长。

Canva目前被列为潜在的纳斯达克IPO候选公司,Blackbird内部对其估值为350亿加元,低于去年归属的420亿加元估值。

更近期的投资包括新西兰农业科技公司Halter和由澳大利亚数学家共同创立的AI基础设施集团Baseten。

Wong表示,对Baseten的1.43亿澳元投资是Blackbird迄今为止开出的最大单笔支票,也是该初创公司估值130亿加元的一部分融资。

在去年美国机构投资者支持Airtree Ventures筹集4.2亿澳元基金后,Blackbird的此次融资是澳大利亚小型风险投资行业最新的外资支持融资。

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日 0.66% 月 -1.10% 年 27.97% 股市在过去30天的走势,与同币种的富时全球指数进行比较

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生效日期 07.11.2025

7月24日 - 8月24日< / td><>指数< / ><>全球指数< / >< / tr><><>S&P 500< / >< colspan="2">纽约< / >< / table>

<><>国家< / ><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>All Ordinaries< / ><>9316.70< / ><>9269.70< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>S&P ASX 250< / ><>9103.10< / ><>9058.90< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>S&P ASX 200 Res< / ><>8492.50< / ><>8304.70< / >< / ><><>奥地利< / ><>ATX< / ><>6817.52< / ><>6621.80< / >< / ><><>比利时< / ><>BELT 2< / ><>5811.50< / ><>5607.1< / >< / ><><>比利时< / ><>BEL Mid< / ><>6578.18< / ><>6564.36< / >< / ><><>巴西< / ><>Bovespa< / ><>172556.18< / ><>171031.73< / >< / ><><>加拿大< / ><>S&P TSX 60< / ><>2146.85< / ><>2144.95< / >< / ><><>加拿大< / ><>S&P TSX Comp< / ><>36804.97< / ><>36620.23< / >< / ><><>智利< / ><>S&P / FLX 20PIA 52 / N< / ><>5769.66< / ><>57028.69< / >< / ><><>中国< / ><>China TSSE 4200< / ><>11445.32< / ><>11467.5< / >< / ><><>< / ><>上海51< / ><>4070.25< / ><>4094.63< / >< / ><><>< / ><>上海B< / ><>282.80< / ><>280.77< / >< / ><><>< / ><>上海综合指数< / ><>3862.01< / ><>3905.20< / >< / ><><>< / ><>深圳A< / ><>2612.98< / ><>2657.30< / >< / ><><>< / ><>深圳B< / ><>1195.65< / ><>1149.63< / >< / ><><>克罗地亚< / ><>CROEX< / ><>4487.51< / ><>4423.45< / >< / ><><>塞浦路斯< / ><>CSE M&G 1295< / ><>317.23< / ><>317.54< / >< / table>

<><>国家< / ><>指数< / ><>最新< / ><>前值< / >< / ><><>捷克共和国< / ><>Czech Republic PX< / ><>2794.43< / ><>2784.64< / >< / ><><>丹麦< / ><>OMAC Copenhagen 20< / ><>1641.01< / ><>1634.37< / >< / ><><>埃及< / ><>EDX 30< / ><>55164.90< / ><>55350.40< / >< / ><><>爱沙尼亚< / ><>OMX Tallinn< / ><>2158.32< / ><>2147.13< / >< / ><><>法国< / ><>OMX Stockholm General< / ><>13408.88< / ><>1249.10< / >< / ><><>法国< / ><>Swiss CAC40< / ><>8463.01< / ><>8464.43< / >< / ><><>塞尔维亚< / ><>SBF 120< / ><>6336.81< / ><>6420.46< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>MX-DAX< / ><>32031.55< / ><>32110.41< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>TecDex< / ><>4049.23< / ><>4080.64< / >< / ><><>希腊< / ><>KETRA Dex< / ><>26188.00< / ><>26138.00< / >< / ><><>希腊< / ><>ASAN< / ><>263.17< / ><>200< / >< / ><><>希腊< / ><>FTSE / ASEA< / ><>6272.84< / ><>6733.94< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>恒生指数< / ><>25517.33< / ><>28009.46< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>恒生企业指数< / ><>8471.36< / ><>8634.34< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>恒生红筹指数< / ><>4247.63< / ><>4292.35< / >< / ><><>匈牙利< / ><>BASF< / ><>10150.00< / ><>148059.01< / >< / ><><>爱尔兰< / ><>BSF Sensex< / ><>77369.11< / ><>77540.83< / >< / ><><>印度尼西亚< / ><>雅加达综合指数< / ><>6501.67< / ><>6025.69< / >< / table>

当日 ▶ -0.37% 当月 ▶ 6.29% 当年 ▶ 6.62% 欧洲市场

| 美洲 |

活跃股票 / 股票交易量(百万股) / 收盘价 / 日内变动 Nvidia / 61.84 / 210.68 / -4.04 Intel / 53.47 / 97.73 / -2.34 Super Micro Computer / 24.31 / 35.60 / - Moderna / 20.87 / 138.69 / - Tesla / 18.67 / 356.92 / -5.94 Micron Technology / 16.99 / 918.65 / -48.13 Walmart / 16.76 / 105.21 / 1.51 Palantir / 13.94 / 177.50 / -2.44 Amazon.com / 13.83 / 262.74 / 4.11 Apple / 12.93 / 311.89 / 2.54 最大涨跌股 / 收盘价 / 日内涨跌

活跃股票 / 股票交易量(百万股) / 收盘价 / 日内变动

Lloyds Big Gp / 73.94 / 1.12 / - Glencore / 72.00 / 5.93 / -0.04 Barclays / 38.90 / 4.95 / 0.03 Legal & General / 35.03 / 2.88 / 0.04 Anglo American / 29.76 / 41.18 / 0.51 Vodafone / 29.34 / 1.18 / 0.01 Mire Group / 28.03 / 2.09 / 0.01 BP / 24.86 / 5.34 / -0.16 Beasley / 24.07 / 12.96 / - Investec / 21.94 / 6.36 / -0.01 最大涨跌股 / 收盘价 / 日内涨跌

活跃股票 / 股票交易量(百万股) / 收盘价 / 日内变动 Stellantis / 44.49 / 4.42 / -0.22 Intesa Sanpaolo / 24.56 / 6.82 / 0.05 Banco Santander / 17.98 / 12.70 / 0.15 Banco De Sabadell / 17.02 / 3.71 / - Enel / 11.14 / 9.52 / 0.02 Nokia / 11.04 / 8.58 / -0.18 Royal KPN / 7.81 / 4.08 / 0.01 Eni / 7.33 / 23.54 / -0.60 Svenska Handelsenk A / 5.06 / 144.55 / - Banco BPM / 5.00 / 16.30 / -

国家 / 指数 / 最新 / 前值 爱尔兰 / ISED综合指数 / 14290.01 / 14186.95 以色列 / 特拉维夫125指数 / 4014.95 / 4059.40 意大利 / FTSE意大利全股指数 / 55145.71 / 55273.31 意大利 / FTSE意大利中盘股指数 / 61455.17 / 61268.22 意大利 / FTSE标普500指数 / 32542.16 / 32686.65 日本 / 日经225指数 / 65528.09 / 66016.36 日本 / 东京指数 / 4073.29 / 4067.29 科威特 / KXK市场指数 / 9105.45 / 9108.40 拉脱维亚 / OMX里加指数 / 944.02 / 943.05 立陶宛 / OMX / 125 / 4

维尔纽斯 / 1556.59 / 1558.08

卢森堡 / 卢森 / 1954.06 / 1948.71 墨西哥 / 墨西哥城 IPC 指数 / 50586.62 / 65729.18 马来西亚 / 富士通马来西亚指数 / 1736.32 / 1736.48 摩洛哥 / MASI 指数 / 19124.18 / 18992.40 荷兰 / AEX 指数 / 1109.95 / 1105.97 波兰 / AEX 全股指数 / 1507.37 / 1508.08 新西兰 / NZX 50 指数 / 13881.88 / 13972.66 尼日利亚 / 证券交易所综合指数 / 23985.17 / 23051.16

恒生指数

活跃股票 / 股票交易量(百万) / 收盘价 / 日涨跌

日本电信电话 / 201.00 / 166.50 / 0.40 软银集团 / 61.71 / 235.00 / 1.20 富士仓 / 50 / 5016.00 / -264.00 东京电力 / 42.21 / 536.00 / -13.30 软银集团 / 35.12 / 4975.00 / -280.00 太阳诱电 / 32.79 / 9149.00 / -151.00 日本钢铁 / 32.64 / 666.10 / 6.70 日产汽车 / 24.56 / 334.00 / -2.00 古河电工 / 23.54 / 3625.00 / -193.00 三菱日联金融集团 / 22.29 / 3481.00 / -27.00

富时全球指数

7月24日 - 8月24日 / 指数 / 全球指数 德国法兰克福 Xetra Dax 指数 / 法兰克福

日 ▷ -0.24% 月 ▷ 1.44% 年 ▷ 22.17%

国家 / 指数 / 最新 / 之前 挪威 / 奥斯陆综合指数 / 2477.86 / 2468.92 巴基斯坦 / KSE 100 指数 / 176966.68 / 177168.52 菲律宾 / 马尼拉企业指数 / 6251.38 / 6238.46 波兰 / Wig 指数 / 151058.76 / 155911.92 葡萄牙 / P3 20 指数 / 9391.96 / 9324.49 葡萄牙 / PSI 综合指数 / 6331.72 / 6350.89 罗马尼亚 / 罗马尼亚 BET 指数 / 36474.45 / 36437.39 俄罗斯 / 俄罗斯美元交易指数 / 988.10 沙特阿拉伯 / 塔达瓦尔综合指数 / 11174.13 / 11076.68 新加坡 / 富时新加坡指数 / 5680.46 / 5688.96 斯洛伐克 / TCS 25 指数 / 326.05 斯洛文尼亚 / SIB TOP 指数 / 3188.75 / 3213.78 南非 / 富时 / 约翰内斯堡证券交易所综合指数 / 116712.04 / 117747.80 南非 / 富时 / 约翰内斯堡证券交易所资源指数 / 76249.82 / 7635.81 南非 / 富时 / 约翰内斯堡证券交易所前40指数 / 159389.61 / 110287.07 韩国 / 科斯达克指数 / 6936.96 / 6912.05 韩国 / 科斯达克200指数 / 1054.01 / 1096.25 西班牙 / 西班牙IBEX 35指数 / 20098.60 / 19961.50

最大涨跌股 / 收盘价 / 日内变动 / 日内变动%

| 涨幅榜 | | | | AP Moller-Maersk A / 21540.00 / 800.00 / 3.86 AP Moller-Maersk B / 22430.00 / 810.00 / 3.75 Covabank / 13.27 / 0.28 / 2.20 Beiersdorf / 61.28 / 1.68 / 2.11 Deutsche Bank / 33.05 / 0.68 / 2.10 | 跌幅榜 | | | | Stellantis / 4.42 / -0.22 / -4.77 Infineon Technologies / 54.16 / -1.81 / -3.23 Repsol / 27.09 / -0.90 / -3.22 Siemens Energy / 148.74 / -4.82 / -3.01 Rheinmetall / 1125.20 / -30.20 / -2.61

富时100指数 / 价格(英镑) / 周涨跌% / 年涨跌%

| 赢家榜 | | | | Endascor / 47.73 / 13.78 / 23.27 Antofagasta / 39.72 / 9.85 / 21.13 Croda International / 34.68 / 9.75 / 28.68 Fresnillo / 32.00 / 9.21 / -4.02 Weir / 28.78 / 7.71 / 1.12 Rio Tinto / 76.66 / 7.58 / 27.89 RELX / 26.52 / 7.37 / -12.19 Glencore / 5.93 / 7.10 / 45.89 Unilever / 47.83 / 5.98 / -1.58 Experian / 29.63 / 5.86 / -11.89

最大涨跌股 / 收盘价 / 日内变动 / 日内变动% | 涨幅榜 | | | | 住友金属矿业 / 11475.00 / 715.00 / 6.84 日立建机 / 6005.00 / 361.00 / 6.40 小松 / 7414.00 / 349.00 / 4.94 住友重机械工业 / 5888.00 / 273.00 / 4.86 瑞可利控股 / 16515.00 / 615.00 / 3.87 | 跌幅榜 | | | | 软银集团 / 4875.00 / -280.00 / -5.33 古河电工 / 3825.00 / -193.00 / -5.05 藤仓 / 9216.00 / -264.00 / -5.00 Advantest / 34500.00 / -1400.00 / -3.90 东京电力控股 / 536.00 / -13.30 / -2.42

日 ▶ -0.59% 月 ▶ 1.78% 年 ▶ 2.94%

国家 / 指数 / 最新 / 前值 瑞典 / DMX斯德哥尔摩30 / 3290.84 / 3292.34 瑞典 / DMX斯德哥尔摩AS / 1138.66 / 1139.67 瑞士 / 瑞士指数 / 14447.19 / 14456.98 中国台湾 / 加权股价指数 / 44762.32 / 45234.29 泰国 / 博维斯帕50ETF / 1612.05 / 1613.24 土耳其 / BIST 100 / 14501.49 / 14514.62 英国 / 富时100 / 10856.32 / 10816.56 英国 / 富时400英国 / 9450.52 / 9399.14 英国 / 富时全股指数 / 5850.42 / 5832.63 英国 / 富时每周中盘100 / 953.02 / 956.24 美国 / 道琼斯

Composite / 16858.64 / 16941.86

道琼斯工业平均指数 / 53029.69 / 53277.01 道琼斯运输业平均指数 / 21331.81 / 21570.26 道琼斯公用事业平均指数 / 424.70 / 421.26 纳斯达克100指数 / 29100.06 / 29308.86 纳斯达克综合指数 / 26305.45 / 26185.45 纽交所综合指数 / 24679.13 / 24728.67 标普500指数 / 7659.74 / 7674.37

| 输家 |

Polar CapTech / 6.24 / -8.11 / 34.38 Babcock Intl / 10.81 / -8.11 / -12.99 Melrose Ind / 4.62 / -6.34 / -21.48 BAE SYSTEMS / 20.97 / -6.22 / 22.35 JD Sports Fashion / 0.85 / -5.02 / 1.23 Legal & General / 2.88 / -4.57 / 10.04 Investec / 6.36 / -4.22 / 15.23 Rolls-Royce / 15.00 / -4.07 / 30.45 Halma / 35.54 / -4.00 / 0.45 Barclays / 4.95 / -3.89 / 4.08

| FTSE 250 | 股价(英镑) / 本周涨跌(%) / 年初至今涨跌(%) | 赢家 | Oxford Nanopore Technologies / 1.67 / 34.33 / 29.83 Kainos Group / 12.54 / 28.95 / 24.90 Pan African Res / 1.37 / 21.91 / 13.14 Hochschild Mining / 6.30 / 19.77 / 22.69 Gamma Communications / 10.95 / 12.48 / 18.51 Ithaca Energy / 2.71 / 10.79 / 63.45 Ataiaya Mining Copper / 10.10 / 9.19 / 18.13 AEP Plantations / 1.95 / 8.33 / 42.34 THG / 0.34 / 7.80 / -25.05 Michael Paige / 2.21 / 7.18 / -6.12

FT.COM / 市场数据

英镑 / 欧元

价格 / 涨跌 / %

| 上涨 | | | | Playtech / 4.12 / 0.20 / 5.15 Pollen Street Group / 8.78 / 0.31 / 3.66 WPP / 4.00 / 0.13 / 3.36 ME Group / 1.25 / 0.04 / 3.14 B&M European Value / 2.44 / 0.07 / 3.05 | 下跌 | | | | CMC Market / 7.09 / -0.34 / -4.58 Goodwin / 180.20 / -7.00 / -3.74 Oxford Biomedica / 5.09 / -0.17 / -3.23 Kazoa Group / 12.54 / -0.40 / -3.09 Oxford Instruments / 27.60 / -0.86 / -3.02

布伦特原油 \$

国家 / 指数 / 最新 / 前值

委内瑞拉 / IBC / 5924.26 / 5864.56 越南 / 越南指数 / 1788.78 / 1768.12 跨境 / 欧元斯托克50(欧元) / 6447.98 / 6462.22 荷兰 / 罗素100(美元) / 1932.87 / 1938.94 跨境 / 富时400全球指数(美元) / 21312.75 / 21364.43 跨境 / 富时全球指数(美元) / 754.48 / 756.99 跨境 / 富时欧元300 / 2615.48 / 2614.74 跨境 / 富时欧元顶级100 / 5062.00 / 5064.86 跨境 / 富时全球100(美元) / 5703.76 / 5738.78 跨境 / 富时黄金矿业指数(美元) / 8594.60 跨境 / 富时拉美顶级指数(欧元) / 6137.00 / 6008.20 跨境 / 富时全球指数(美元) / 1408.87 / 1413.02 跨境 / 富时欧元第一100(欧元) / 7240.56 / 7240.25 跨境 / 富时欧元第一80(欧元) / 8764.58 / 8781.41

货币

| 跌幅榜 | | | | | 18 / Trainline / 1.94 / -20.85 / -12.16 19 / Hunting / 3.94 / -19.86 / 6.21 18 / Raspberry Pi Holdings / 5.93 / -12.72 / 97.70 15 / Chemring Group / 5.58 / -9.78 / 18.10 23 / Goodwin / 180.20 / -8.15 / -15.40 14 / Avon Technologies / 17.78 / -7.68 / -1.96 23 / Keller Group / 28.58 / -7.57 / 71.55 25 / JPMorgan Japanese IT / 8.00 / -7.08 / 15.94 15 / DR.Martens / 0.81 / -6.90 / 5.74 18 / Alliance Tech / 6.85 / -6.68 / 29.96

富时小型股指数< / td><>价格(英镑)< / ><>周涨跌%< / ><>年初至今涨跌%< / >< / tr> <>< colspan="4">赢家< / >< / > <><>图洛石油< / ><>0.20< / ><>28.94< / ><>238.02< / >< / > <><>熔炉网络公司< / ><>0.35< / ><>22.82< / ><>8.46< / >< / > <><>资本< / ><>1.18< / ><>15.69< / ><>3.51< / >< / > <><>盖格计数器< / ><>0.86< / ><>6.77< / ><>10.33< / >< / > <><>肯纳罗资源< / ><>2.08< / ><>6.67< / ><>-15.79< / >< / > <><>恩奎斯特< / ><>0.26< / ><>5.92< / ><>144.81< / >< / > <><>CGS自然资源增长与收益< / ><>4.29< / ><>5.67< / ><>20.85< / >< / > <><>Ebara特许权使用费< / ><>1.69< / ><>4.96< / ><>47.56< / >< / > <><>Pinewood科技G< / ><>4.48< / ><>4.92< / ><>25.14< / >< / > <><>CT英国高收益信托< / ><>1.22< / ><>4.27< / ><>8.93< / >< / > < / table>

<><>行业板块< / ><>价格(英镑)< / ><>周涨跌%< / ><>年初至今涨跌%< / >< / > <>< colspan="4">赢家< / >< / > <><>贵金属与矿业< / ><>38692.03< / ><>14.01< / ><>12.39< / >< / > <><>生物技术< / ><>21058.66< / ><>8.86< / ><>-4.43< / >< / > <><>基础材料< / ><>10999.70< / ><>7.29< / ><>30.84< / >< / > <><>工业金属与矿业< / ><>9935.84< / ><>6.81< / ><>33.90< / >< / > <><>软件与计算机服务< / ><>1928.11< / ><>6.26< / ><>-5.67< / >< / > <><>科技< / ><>1685.93< / ><>6.14< / ><>-5.41< / >< / > <><>个人护理、药品与食品杂货< / ><>4607.77< / ><>4.47< / ><>-2.38< / >< / > <><>制药与生物技术< / ><>23781.48< / ><>4.15< / ><>-7.24< / >< / > <><>金融与信贷服务< / ><>14214.20< / ><>4.14< / ><>-1.85< / >< / > <><>医疗保健< / ><>16645.01< / ><>3.89< / ><>-7.26< / >< / > < / table>

<>< colspan="5">输家< / >< / > <><>2.16< / ><>Ashhead科技< / ><>3.56< / ><>-18.16< / ><>14.84< / >< / > <><>1.21< / ><>Mobico集团< / ><>0.23< / ><>-12.65< / ><>< / >< / > <><>1.70< / ><>海湾海事服务< / ><>0.18< / ><>-8.36< / ><>-5.54< / >< / > <><>1.10< / ><>克雷斯特尼科尔森控股< / ><>0.65< / ><>-7.65< / ><>-54.56< / >< / > <><>1.40< / ><>美容科技集团< / ><>3.40< / ><>-5.82< / ><>17.24< / >< / > <><>1.98< / ><>斯皮迪租赁< / ><>0.18< / ><>-5.80< / ><>-26.00< / >< / > <><>1.55< / ><>曼彻斯特与伦敦投资信托< / ><>9.72< / ><>-5.63< / ><>21.65< / >< / > <><>1.94< / ><>未来< / ><>3.03< / ><>-5.19< / ><>-42.41< / >< / > <><>1.74< / ><>JPMorgan美国小型企业投资信托< / ><>4.34< / ><>-4.82< / ><>8.62< / >< / > <><>1.99< / ><>铸造< / ><>3.03< / ><>-4.72< / ><>11.40< / >< / >

富时精算师股价指数

<>< colspan="4">输家< / >< / > <><>1.84< / ><>技术硬件与设备< / ><>119.79< / ><>-12.72 97.71< / >< / > <><>< / ><>可替代能源< / ><>42.10< / ><>-5.87 91.46< / >< / > <><>5.54< / ><>航空航天与国防< / ><>24856.97< / ><>-4.93 23.81< / >< / > <><>5.56< / ><>电子与电气设备< / ><>14719.17< / ><>-2.74 15.45< / >< / > <><>7.24< / ><>工业< / ><>12065.07< / ><>-2.67 15.35< / >< / > <><>5.00< / ><>建筑与材料< / ><>15504.85< / ><>-2.19 13.24< / >< / > <><>5.65< / ><>汽车与零部件< / ><>854.92< / ><>-1.86 -40.24< / >< / > <><>2.41< / ><>银行< / ><>9486.29< / ><>-1.47 19.70< / >< / > <><>3.62< / ><>消费者服务< / ><>4029.11< / ><>-1.35 -2.64< / >< / > <><>4.40< / ><>封闭式投资< / ><>15160.49< / ><>-1.03 10.04< / >< / >

8月24日< / td>< rowspan="2">收盘中间价< / >< colspan="2">美元< / >< rowspan="2">收盘中间价< / >< colspan="2">美元< / >< colspan="2">欧元< / >< colspan="2">英镑< / >< / tr><><>当日变动< / ><>当周变动< / >< / ><><>阿根廷比索< / ><>1508.3524< / ><>10.2468< / ><>18.5059< / ><>1757.1953< / ><>26.2700< / ><>23.7000< / ><>2593.7013< / ><>13.4671< / ><>< / >< / ><><>巴西雷亚尔< / ><>1.0011< / ><>0.0011< / ><>0.0003< / ><>1.6306< / ><>0.0012< / ><>0.0014< / ><>1.8054< / ><>0.0039< / ><>< / >< / ><><>巴林第纳尔< / ><>0.3770< / ><>< / ><>0.4399< / ><>0.0044< / ><>0.0141< / ><>< / >< / ><><>玻利维亚诺< / ><>11.5000< / ><>-0.2600< / ><>13.4100< / ><>-0.2636< / ><>15.4707< / ><>-0.2650< / ><>< / >< / ><><>巴西圣马力诺< / ><>5.1474< / ><>-0.2108< / ><>-0.0469< / ><>8.0004< / ><>0.1146< / ><>-0.0183< / ><>< / >< / ><><>加拿大元< / ><>1.3839< / ><>0.0056< / ><>-0.0071< / ><>1.6144< / ><>0.0057< / ><>0.0070< / ><>1.8693< / ><>0.0104< / ><>< / >< / ><><>智利比索< / ><>915.2700< / ><>-0.6889< / ><>1051.5450< / ><>9.5031< / ><>1255.2950< / ><>9.2901< / ><>< / >< / ><><>人民币< / ><>8.1237< / ><>-0.0213< / ><>7.8439< / ><>0.0527< / ><>0.5627< / ><>9.1875< / ><>0.0492< / ><>< / >< / ><><>捷克克朗< / ><>3502.1800< / ><>-10.8000< / ><>3501.3175< / ><>-46.1977< / ><>4192.3179< / ><>20.6965< / ><>< / >< / ><><>哥伦比亚比索< / ><>448.6400< / ><>-1.1100< / ><>534.5386< / ><>-3.4624< / ><>613.3498< / ><>3.5935< / ><>< / >< / ><><>捷克克朗< / ><>20.0360< / ><>-0.0360< / ><>-0.2360< / ><>24.1615< / ><>-0.1035< / ><>28.1844< / ><>-0.2176< / ><>< / >< / ><><>瑞典克朗< / ><>6.4040< / ><>0.0040< / ><>-0.0400< / ><>7.4970< / ><>-3.0001< / ><>8.8822< / ><>0.0117< / ><>< / >< / ><><>埃及镑< / ><>50.7300< / ><>0.0000< / ><>-0.0000< / ><>58.1916< / ><>1.5602< / ><>66.1709< / ><>1.7831< / ><>< / >< / ><><>港元< / ><>7.8365< / ><>-0.0037< / ><>-0.0086< / ><>9.1423< / ><>-0.0098< / ><>-0.0092< / ><>10.6849< / ><>0.0029< / ><>< / >< / ><><>印度卢比< / ><>311.1400< / ><>-4.2972< / ><>303.5300< / ><>-1.1930< / ><>53.4330< / ><>-2.2058< / ><>< / >< / ><><>印度日元< / ><>95.7483< / ><>0.0330< / ><>0.1350< / ><>111.8976< / ><>-0.0276< / ><>0.0318< / ><>130.5452< / ><>0.1417< / ><>< / >< / table>

变动 / 美元 / 欧元 / 变动 / 英镑

中间价 / 当日变动 / 单周变动 / 中间价 / 当日变动 / 单周变动 / 中间价 / 当日变动 / 单周变动 37.415% / 印度尼西亚卢布 / 1,777,000 / 20.0000 / -115.0000 / 2060.4800 / 151.6500 / 24416.7000 / 44.5690 / -10.0330 0.000% / 瑞典克朗 / 3.0010 / 0.0142 / 0.0003 / 3.5010 / 0.1415 / 0.0644 / 0.0021 / 0.0124 日元 / 139.1930 / 0.2300 / -0.1000 / 159.7599 / 0.1571 / 1.1418 / 217.5045 / 0.4726 / 1.1959 -0.250% / 科威特第纳尔 / 129.4000 / - / 150.5981 / 1.4802 / 176.4035 / 1.4617 -0.07% / 雀巢 / 6.3895 / - / 6.3998 / -0.0083 / 0.0023 / 4.0258 / 0.0095 / 0.0088 0.007% / 马来西亚卢布 / 8.4245 / 0.0040 / -0.0160 / 8.7160 / -0.0099 / 5.5118 / 0.0095 / 0.0088 0.000% / 俄罗斯卢布 / 196.929 / 0.0459 / -0.0691 / 196.7899 / -0.1018 / 1.2191 / 0.0853 0.046% / 新西兰元 / 1.6783 / 0.0037 / -0.1739 / 1.8578 / 0.0031 / -0.0033 / 2.2863 / 0.0066 / -0.0051 -86.544% / 2 / 1341.5880 / -14.1300 / -13.1430 / 1512.2955 / -8.8116 / 1873.5075 / -3.6932 0.000% / 俄罗斯卢布 / 9.3074 / 0.0825 / -0.1175 / 10.6836 / -0.0191 / 12.8351 / -0.0191 -0.2176% / 巴基斯坦卢比 / 277.4750 / - / -0.0500 / 323.7024 / -0.1942 / -2.1341 / 378.3233 / 0.2774 / 2.2075 0.000% / 俄罗斯卢布 / 2.9482 / -0.0372 / -0.0272 / 3.3833 / -0.0071 / 0.0071 / 0.6874 / 0.0016 / 0.6874 1.735% / 菲律宾泰铢 / 61.7520 / 0.0825 / 0.2280 / 72.0844 / 1.8476 / 84.1950 / 0.1469 / 0.8179 0.052% / 波兰兹罗提 / 3.6915 / -0.0312 / 4.3085 / 0.0085 / 5.0332 / 0.0002 0.000% / 秘鲁马耳他 / 4.9252 / -0.0327 / 5.2948 / 0.0137 / 1.6165 / 0.0002 0.966% / 俄罗斯卢比 / 83.6380 / -1.0000 / 97.5279 / 2.1165 / 113.9845 / 2.3093

FTSE行业与全球指数

年初至今涨跌幅

行业 / 年初至今涨跌幅(%) ------ / --------------------- 技术硬件与设备 / 57.71 可替代能源 / 91.46 工业金属与矿业 / 33.90 医疗保健服务提供商 / 32.21 非寿险 / 31.70 基础材料 / 30.64 航空航天与国防 / 23.81 能源 / 23.68 石油、天然气与煤炭 / 23.59 银行 / 19.70 电子与电气设备 / 15.45 工业 / 15.35 工业运输 / 15.33 电信服务提供商 / 15.14 电信 / 15.14 化工 / 14.84 金融(不含投资公司) / 14.52 综合工业 / 13.86 金融 / 13.78

FTSE全球指数

地区与国家 / 股票数 / 美元指数 / 久期(年) / 日涨跌(%) / 年初至今涨跌(%) / 美元指数 / 年初至今涨跌(%) / 股息率(%) ------------ / -------- / ---------- / ------------ / ------------- / --------------------- / ---------- / --------------------- / ------------- | FTSE全球行业 | | | | | | | | | 美国 / 1,013.1 / 1,269.39 / 5.04 / 3.03 / 13.34 / 291.18 / 1.468 / 1.59 全球大型股 / 1,870 / 1,197.28 / 0.57 / 2.98 / 17.82 / 2,192.97 / 1.41 / 1.50 日本及其他 / 1,200 / 1,044.44 / 0.44 / 2.98 / 17.82 / 2,181.50 / 1.41 / 1.50 全球小型股 / 5,651 / 1,470.22 / 0.26 / 3.35 / 14.57 / 2,279.93 / 1.50 / 1.71 全球除欧元区 / 9,498 / 1,344.48 / 0.55 / 2.83 / 13.57 / 2,261.35 / 1.48 / 1.50 Markit I / 7,582 / 4,264.58 / 0.34 / 3.03 / 13.34 / 2,198.16 / 1.41 / 1.50 全球除美国 / 8,562 / 824.10 / 0.44 / 4.22 / 14.69 / 1,657.37 / 1.65 / 2.40 那不勒斯亚太 / 9,882 / 4,365.47 / 0.54 / 3.03 / 14.57 / 2,198.16 / 1.41 / 1.50 全球除日本 / 8,757 / 1,327.43 / 0.38 / 3.00 / 13.11 / 2,309.72 / 1.44 / 1.57 | FTSE区域利息 | | | | | | | | | 亚太地区 / 1,986 / 1,752.59 / 0.52 / 2.45 / 12.62 / 2,726.30 / 1.31 / 1.50 亚太地区 / 6,321 / 929.44 / 0.62 / 4.05 / 19.41 / 1,668.50 / 2.15 / 1.96 欧洲除日本 / 4,985 / 176.17 / 0.90 / 3.03 / 14.57 / 2,107.22 / 1.87 / 1.97 欧洲 / 1,452 / 222.29 / 0.25 / 4.19 / 10.06 / 1,503.86 / 1.87 / 2.78 | 欧洲除

UK< / td> 1221< / ><>836.11< / ><>0.51< / ><>4.13< / ><>9.97< / ><>1736.50< / ><>1.28< / ><>2.68< / ><>< / >< / tr> <>非日本非洲地区< / ><>614< / ><>133.85< / ><>0.44< / ><>3.03< / ><>14.57< / ><>1605.47< / ><>1.88< / ><>2.83< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="10">AEE已开发市场地区< / >< / ><><>已开发市场< / ><>3357< / ><>1317.98< / ><>0.51< / ><>3.05< / ><>13.67< / ><>2248.38< / ><>1.44< / ><>1.50< / ><>< / >< / ><><>已开发市场(不含北美)< / ><>3357< / ><>787.48< / ><>0.53< / ><>4.57< / ><>16.43< / ><>1586.07< / ><>1.78< / ><>2.45< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="10">2021年8月地区与国家< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">亚太地区< / >< rowspan="2">N / A< / ><>美元< / ><>日涨幅%< / ><>月< / ><>年初至今涨幅%< / >< rowspan="2">美元< / ><>年初至今涨幅%< / >< rowspan="2">总股息收益率< / ><>< / >< / ><><>美元< / ><>美元< / ><>< / >< / table>

英国近期增资权问题

数字信息服务< / td>< / tr><><>电信与计算机服务< / ><>351< / ><>351.00< / ><>0.98< / ><>7.53< / ><>-2.07< / ><>4729.75< / ><>-1.64< / >< / ><><>媒体< / ><>183< / ><>830.44< / ><>-0.02< / ><>10.50< / ><>-8.78< / ><>1193.67< / ><>-8.10< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">科技< / >< / ><><>智能手机< / ><>283< / ><>883.64< / ><>0.05< / ><>-1.20< / ><>41.66< / ><>866.69< / ><>42.17< / >< / ><><>科技硬件与设备< / ><>693< / ><>679.69< / ><>-0.16< / ><>-2.44< / ><>40.30< / ><>9632.29< / ><>40.81< / >< / ><><>科技< / ><>1231< / ><>4804.41< / ><>0.27< / ><>1.10< / ><>20.55< / ><>6045.95< / ><>21.02< / >< / ><><>电信< / ><>1231< / ><>4804.41< / ><>0.27< / ><>1.10< / ><>20.55< / ><>6045.95< / ><>21.02< / >< / ><><>电信设备< / ><>114< / ><>577.93< / ><>2.88< / ><>8.25< / ><>72.87< / ><>8671.79< / ><>73.99< / >< / ><><>电信服务< / ><>250< / ><>598.77< / ><>1.85< / ><>-0.23< / ><>33.71< / ><>8177.71< / ><>10.96< / >< / ><><>电信服务提供商< / ><>145< / ><>452.60< / ><>1.39< / ><>4.97< / ><>3.22< / ><>1009.79< / ><>6.05< / >< / ><><>电子与电气设备< / ><>344< / ><>210.57< / ><>0.18< / ><>3.60< / ><>24.24< / ><>3057.74< / ><>25.24< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">金融< / >< / ><><>金融与信贷服务< / ><>112< / ><>933.06< / ><>0.64< / ><>1.92< / ><>-5.84< / ><>1461.34< / ><>-4.78< / >< / ><><>金融< / ><>1152< / ><>738.39< / ><>0.89< / ><>2.10< / ><>10.23< / ><>1518.45< / ><>12.67< / >< / ><><>银行、房地产与服务< / ><>1152< / ><>738.39< / ><>0.89< / ><>2.10< / ><>10.23< / ><>1518.45< / ><>12.67< / >< / ><><>银行< / ><>489< / ><>534.39< / ><>0.64< / ><>1.63< / ><>14.56< / ><>1244.17< / ><>17.53< / >< / ><><>其他保险< / ><>9< / ><>971.41< / ><>0.30< / ><>-0.01< / ><>1000.00< / ><>-0.01< / >< / ><><>非寿险< / ><>125< / ><>1089.36< / ><>0.52< / ><>1.32< / ><>5.42< / ><>1863.19< / ><>8.30< / >< / ><><>投资银行与借贷服务< / ><>344< / ><>170.94< / ><>1.47< / ><>4.03< / ><>6.60< / ><>2042.58< / ><>7.53< / >< / ><><>投资与融资服务< / ><>56< / ><>149.01< / ><>1.43< / ><>5.15< / ><>0.24< / ><>137.02< / ><>0.89< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">房地产< / >< / ><><>房地产< / ><>648< / ><>982.34< / ><>0.03< / ><>-0.52< / ><>5.51< / ><>1174.75< / ><>8.01< / >< / ><><>房地产与商业服务< / ><>115< / ><>738.39< / ><>0.03< / ><>-0.52< / ><>5.51< / ><>1174.75< / ><>8.01< / >< / ><><>房地产投资信托< / ><>319< / ><>571.60< / ><>0.15< / ><>-4.97< / ><>1.79< / ><>5666.33< / ><>12.52< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">消费品< / >< / ><><>消费者数字服务< / ><>98< / ><>319.42< / ><>0.97< / ><>-3.29< / ><>-1.62< / ><>323.83< / ><>-1.42< / >< / ><><>非必需消费品< / ><>1513< / ><>1230.60< / ><>0.63< / ><>3.06< / ><>-1.76< / ><>1189.29< / ><>-0.69< / >< / ><><>必需消费品< / ><>1513< / ><>1230.60< / ><>0.63< / ><>3.06< / ><>-1.76< / ><

金融时报

13.24 / 必需消费品 / -0.02

13.15 / 金融与信贷服务 / -1.85 12.39 / 个人护理、药品与食品杂货 / -3.38 10.04 / 消费者服务 / -2.84 9.32 / 休闲用品 / -2.56 8.57 / 个人用品 / -3.32 7.33 / 烟草 / -4.29 6.72 / 生物技术 / -4.43 5.40 / 房地产投资与服务 / -5.31 5.26 / 科技 / -5.41 4.19 / 软件与计算机服务 / -5.67 3.78 / 医药与生物技术 / -7.24 3.48 / 医疗保健 / -7.26 2.76 / 医疗设备与服务 / -10.52 2.18 / 家用耐用品与家庭建设 / -20.70 1.43 / 汽车与零部件 / -40.24

平均 21 / 股票数 / 美元指数 / 日涨跌% / 年初至今涨跌% / 股息收益率

| 地区与国家 | | | | | | | | | 发达市场(不含加拿大) / 5148 / 1322.21 / 0.50 / 2.95 / 13.62 / 2249.03 / 14.89 / 1.48 发达市场(不含欧洲) / 4164 / 1508.00 / 0.51 / 2.85 / 14.39 / 2435.24 / 15.38 / 1.27 发达市场(不含日本) / 4778 / 1325.52 / 0.52 / 2.90 / 14.08 / 2413.23 / 15.00 / 1.44 发达市场(不含美国) / 3806 / 802.23 / 0.56 / 4.72 / 16.26 / 1640.08 / 18.52 / 2.40 发达市场(不含英国) / 5136 / 1006.59 / 0.51 / 2.94 / 14.31 / 2341.22 / 14.44 / 1.44 发达市场(不含德国) / 4001 / 1369.62 / 0.54 / 3.02 / 13.47 / 2384.42 / 14.76 / 1.47 发达亚太地区 / 2316 / 859.81 / 0.55 / 5.16 / 26.30 / 1541.25 / 27.98 / 2.03 发达亚太地区(不含日本) / 1860 / 1112.00 / 0.57 / 4.11 / 17.08 / 1580.66 / 21.15 / 2.15 发达亚太地区 / 1193 / 739.72 / 0.52 / 4.18 / 9.87 / 1580.66 / 12.68 / 2.78 发达市场(不含欧洲、不含英国) / 982 / 868.64 / 0.50 / 4.12 / 9.71 / 1693.83 / 12.53 / 2.70 发达市场(不含欧洲、不含日本) / 445 / 1461.19 / 0.43 / 3.94 / 10.00 / 1595.63 / 12.68 / 2.69 发达亚太地区 / 3509 / 789.37 / 0.53 / 4.60 / 16.47 / 1590.84 / 18.77 / 2.45

| 金融时报新兴市场指数 | | | | | | | | | 新兴市场 / 4756 / 1007.60 / 0.86 / 2.82 / 10.50 / 2310.17 / 12.40 / 2.38 新兴亚太地区 / 4035 / 1231.40 / 0.73 / 2.61 / 11.24 / 2248.02 / 12.86 / 1.87

Europe / 259 / 376.00 / 0.75 / 4.92 / 21.63 / 853.75 / 24.43 / 2.51

Emerging Asia Pacific / 36 / 166.00 / 1.35 / 3.30 / 13.50 / 1000.00 / 15.50 / 2.00 Emerging Plus Korea / 5209 / 4364.43 / 1.04 / 4.02 / 19.73 / 8619.16 / 21.55 / 2.08 Emerging Plus Korea+Poland / 7119 / 5221.11 / 1.10 / 4.60 / 30.30 / 8645.25 / 33.22 / 2.06 Emerging Europe / 1231 / 1130.30 / 1.30 / 4.94 / 12.58 / 1258.57 / 13.53 / 2.23 Secondary Energy / 3525 / 1000.12 / 0.47 / 1.99 / -6.81 / 1822.57 / -5.22 / 2.23

8月21日行业 / 股票数 / 指数 / 日涨跌 / 月涨跌% / 年初至今涨跌% / 年初至今存量 / 净值 / 年初至今存量 / 净值 / 股息收益率

对冲商品与家居用品 / 122 / 538.39 / 0.64 / 4.75 / 0.28 / 824.85 / 1.68 / 2.22 医疗保健 / 15 / 152.10 / -1.10 / 1.63 / 0.14 / 1147.86 / 1.80 / 2.07 医疗保健 / 851 / 1221.64 / 0.93 / -1.44 / 10.12 / 1931.07 / 11.50 / 1.56 制药与生物技术 / 118 / 1060.59 / 1.14 / -1.37 / 10.88 / 2255.67 / 11.89 / 1.54 制药与生物技术 / 523 / 1065.61 / 0.90 / 8.75 / 15.98 / 1987.83 / 17.74 / 1.76 制药与生物技术 / 22 / 1277.80 / 0.89 / 12.60 / -4.65 / 2177.05 / -4.21 / 0.97 | 农业食品与饮料 | | | | | | | | | 食品生产商 / 306 / 862.64 / 0.32 / 1.44 / 5.23 / 1188.45 / 7.90 / 3.11 食品生产商 / 104 / 991.95 / 0.65 / 5.05 / 13.63 / 1598.61 / 14.56 / 2.98 | 能源 | | | | | | | | | 能源 / 373 / 712.15 / -0.17 / 6.52 / 33.11 / 1542.20 / 35.92 / 2.95 电力 / 248 / 465.04 / -1.14 / -1.30 / 1457.36 / -1.30 / -0.33 可替代能源 / 89 / 38.25 / 0.37 / -2.98 / 7.37 / 123.55 / 9.34 / 3.55 石油与天然气 / 67 / 411.39 / 0.15 / -1.03 / -0.54 / 554.59 / -0.38 / 3.38 石油与天然气煤炭 / 306 / 737.37 / -0.17 / 6.83 / 34.54 / 1662.67 / 37.55 / 3.09 天然气水务与综合公用事业 / 117 / 710.44 / -1.35 / -2.53 / 4.52 / 1791.35 / 7.13 / 3.59 银行 / 452 / 895.12 / -1.12 / -3.14 / 3.13 / 1693.55 / 5.16 / 2.97 | 交通运输 | | | | | | | | | 汽车与零部件 / 298 / 1082.61 / 2.84 / 0.63 / -10.96 / 1778.92 / -10.04 / 1.48 汽车与零部件与国防 / 386 / 1088.67 / 1.00 / -1.00 / -0.50 / 1778.92 / -10.04 / 1.48 | 工业 | | | | | | | | | 工业工程 / 102 / 2069.32 / -0.45 / 1.62 / 8.91 / 4720.14 / 9.67 / 1.07

工程 / 330 / 2358.29 / 0.83 / 0.53 / 20.80 / 2735.44 / 21.91 / 1.37

工业材料 / 95 / 298.79 / 0.75 / 5.46 / 3.81 / 537.42 / 5.58 / 2.76 工业金属与矿业 / 318 / 1177.29 / 2.28 / -1.00 / -0.50 / 1177.29 / -1.00 / 2.76 工业支持服务 / 235 / 1308.12 / 1.05 / 6.73 / 1.79 / 1916.59 / 2.78 / 1.26 工业 / 2062 / 1625.16 / 4.46 / 3.29 / 11.98 / 2964.12 / 13.14 / 1.42 房地产 / 204 / 168.29 / 0.48 / -0.01 / 168.29 / -0.48 / 0.00

资源与材料

基础材料 / 998 / 1017.68 / 1.95 / 13.53 / 20.83 / 2056.31 / 23.52 / 1.92

多元化材料 / 434 / 1086.17 / 0.62 / 1.63 / 17.44 / 1947.86 / 19.21 / 2.07 建筑与材料 / 461 / 1453.48 / 0.03 / -0.91 / 2.96 / 2145.66 / 4.19 / 1.62 贵金属与矿业 / 40 / 107.54 / 0.04 / -0.01 / 107.54 / -0.04 / 0.00 贵金属与矿业 / 95 / 1683.51 / 3.26 / 38.65 / 18.48 / 2984.05 / 19.76 / 1.37

英国公司业绩

公司 / 营业额(英镑) BATH Advanced Comms $ / 内部 4170万英镑(6040万英镑) Capital $ / 内部 2.19亿英镑(1.592亿英镑) Global Opportunities Trust / 内部 -(-) Hunting $ / 内部 4.97亿英镑(5.286亿英镑) Ithaca Energy $ / 内部 17亿英镑(15亿英镑) JPMorgan American Investment Trust / 内部 -(-) Kenmare Resources $ / 内部 1.491亿英镑(1.677亿英镑) Manchale Capital / 融资 34.1万英镑(40.9万英镑) Resolute Mining $ / 内部 5.847亿英镑(4.475亿英镑) Temple Bar Investment Trust / 内部 -(-)

富时100指数摘要

收盘价(英镑) / 涨跌幅(%) / 收盘价(英镑) / 涨跌幅(%) 3i集团 / 2934.00 / 1.49 / 国际航空公司 / 432.20 阿伯丁集团 / 246.20 / 1.30 / IDC / 2528.00 阿德米拉尔 / 4080.00 / 0.00 / 国际集团 / 54545.00 非洲电信 / 336.00 / 2.69 / 因韦斯特 / 835.50 联合威尔顿 / 1370.00 / … / JD Sports Fashion / 85.50 盎格鲁美国 / 4118.00 / 1.25 / 翠丰 / 317.70 安托法加斯塔 / 3972.00 / 1.72 / 林德娱乐 / 687.00 Legal & / 2698.00 / 0.39

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英国近期股票增补

收盘价(便士) / 涨跌幅 / 收盘价(便士) / 涨跌幅

ATC Music Group / 182.50 / - / Mendell Helium / 4.95 / 6.60 Braunus Solutions / 167.50 / -4.83 / Meridian Mining / 91.80 / - Central Africa Group / 200.00 / - / Perihot Comms / 26.50 / - Comah Metals / 110.00 / 3.77 / Power Probe / 65.50 / - Dach Corp / 484.00 / 1.26 / Ritch Helium / 7.45 / 0.68 EDM Medical Group / 11.25 / 15.38 / Sensil Resources / 22.00 / 7.33 Generation Essentials / 95.35 / -0.08 / Sintana Energy / 22.25 / - Halo / 10.50 / 2.44 / Sunbelt Rentals / 59.00 / 0.32 Fonix Financial / 145.00 / - / Tape Holdings / 44.00 / - Mayflower Acquisition / 602.09 / -0.07 / The Smearner Web Co / 35.25 / 1.31

BioNTech / 116.57 / 5.68 / 124.00 / 79.52 / 0.00 / 55.78 / 29.48

| 香港(港元) | AIA Group / 75.15 / 2.40 / 92.15 / 68.95 / 2.63 / 127.16 / 777.55 HKEX / 421.00 / 3.20 / 466.00 / 360.00 / 3.31 / 28.96 / 523.76

Naspers N / 784.76 / 3.19 / 1311.44 / 776.71 / 0.65 / 93.03 / 600.41 | 西班牙(欧元) | Banco Santander / 12.55 / 0.32 / 13.12 / 7.99 / 1.55 / 13.79 / 188.49 BBVA Spain / 24.82 / 0.31 / 25.28 / 15.28 / 3.00 / 95.46 / 138.53 CaixaBank / 12.98 / 0.07 / 13.47 / 8.38 / 3.12 / 38.18 / 90.55 Iberdrola SA / 20.05 / -0.06 / 22.08 / 15.33 / 2.75 / 36.32 / 133.80 Inditex / 58.22 / 0.64 / 59.42 / 41.24 / 2.43 / 132.02 / 181.45

金融时报全球500强:全球最大公司

股票 / 价格 / 涨跌 / 52周 最高 / 最低 / 股息率 / 市盈率 / 市值(十亿) | 澳大利亚(澳元) | ANZ Group Holdings / 37.13 / 0.12 / 41.00 / 32.46 / 5.86 / 19.07 / 111.98 BHP Group / 65.16 / -0.59 / 65.98 / 39.30 / 3.68 / 33.66 / 331.29 Commonwealth Bank / 157.99 / 1.55 / 165.59 / 146.98 / 3.20 / 24.21 / 264.39 CSL Ltd / 168.30 / -2.90 / 228.30 / 90.00 / 2.42 / 26.17 / 80.60 Macquarie Group / 248.43 / -3.87 / 267.90 / 197.31 / 3.24 / 25.38 / 95.31 National Australia Bank / 38.17 / -0.26 / 48.45 / 35.48 / 4.45 / 17.27 / 118.99 Wesfarmers / 82.37 / -1.97 / 95.17 / 70.80 / 2.59 / 31.93 / 93.51 Westpac Banking / 33.83 / 0.01 / 43.32 / 33.66 / 4.55 / 16.84 / 115.71 | 比利时(欧元) |

Anheuser-Busch InBev(巴西,BRL) / 67.16 / 0.62 / 76.18 / 48.87 / 1.20 / 25.34 / 120.70 Itau Unibanco Holding / 41.39 / 1.06 / 47.80 / 32.24 / 0.00 / 232.52 Itau Unibanco Holding Prfd / 38.60 / 1.09 / 49.67 / 35.99 / 0.00 / 208.79 巴西石油公司 / 49.34 / -0.07 / 56.14 / 30.96 / 0.00 / 43.73 / 367.20 巴西石油公司 Prfd / 44.30 / -0.02 / 50.69 / 29.31 / 0.00 / 241.28 淡水河谷 / 75.03 / 1.01 / 91.62 / 52.95 / 0.00 / 84.54 / 319.31

股票 / 价格 / 涨跌 / 52周最高 / 52周最低 / 股息率(%) / 市盈率 / 市值 / 百万

名称 / (当前) / (%) | Fielo(欧元) | | 北欧银行亚洲金融(欧元) / 17.29 / 0.21 / 17.77 / 12.94 / 0.00 / 12.44 / 58.83 空气化工产品 / 167.12 / -0.26 / 189.80 / 154.86 / 2.01 / 32.03 / 106.65 空客 / 203.70 / -1.06 / 221.30 / 157.42 / 1.57 / 38.00 / 161.39 巴斯夫 / 42.72 / 0.10 / 44.66 / 36.55 / 5.31 / 12.18 / 97.41 法国巴黎银行 / 170.50 / -1.54 / 173.40 / 133.20 / 1.88 / 14.98 / 202.62 Commerzbank / 81.20 / 0.40 / 98.38 / 65.88 / 2.83 / 12.12 / 40.18 法国农业信贷银行 / 19.07 / -0.03 / 20.40 / 15.29 / 0.00 / 8.75 / 57.70 戴姆勒 / 86.32 / 0.14 / 80.14 / 60.64 / 3.39 / 25.61 / 45.32 Enel / 22.43 / 0.20 / 30.36 / 15.97 / 1.00 / 24.92 / 30.10 意大利国家电力公司 / 25.29 / -0.28 / 29.89 / 17.33 / 4.08 / 16.64 / 64.30 依视路-陆逊梯卡 / 163.20 / 2.00 / 323.80 / 159.20 / 2.45 / 31.38 / 75.77 爱马仕国际 / 1573.00 / 23.50 / 2300.00 / 1465.50 / 1.14 / 35.81 / 166.06 林德集团 / 386.80 / 0.80 / 403.50 / 285.50 / 1.14 / 34.18 / 166.06 LMH医药公司 / 452.50 / 0.40 / 654.70 / 440.00 / 2.87 / 20.70 / 223.81 赛峰集团 / 343.60 / -0.00 / 366.50 / 262.60 / 0.97 / 45.21 / 143.74 赛诺菲 / 78.94 / 1.15 / 91.15 / 71.25 / 5.22 / 10.08 / 95.34 施耐德电气 / 296.80 / 2.50 / 312.30 / 208.80 / 1.42 / 34.55 / 171.73 施耐德工业 / 199.80 / -0.10 / 209.80 / 149.00 / 1.15 / 14.98 / 171.73 VNOI / 119.30 / -0.10 / 143.15 / 112.40 / 4.23 / 13.79 / 70.03

Cognizant(欧元 / 百万) / 297.82 / 5.71 / 348.94 / 168.61 / 0.03 / 25.41 / 151.73

Agnico Eagle Mines / 85.06 / -0.39 / 95.15 / 680.30 / 1.00 / 29.44 / 79.08 American Axle & Service / 85.06 / -0.39 / 95.15 / 680.30 / 1.00 / 29.44 / 79.08 Bank of Nova Scotia / 120.57 / 1.21 / 127.63 / 76.58 / 3.78 / 24.81 / 148.61 Broadfield / 57.40 / 0.32 / 102.59 / 52.04 / 0.67 / 102.50 / 129.13 Brookfield Asset Management A / 71.97 / 0.87 / 86.51 / 58.09 / 3.85 / 41.13 / 114.95 Canadian Empire Bank / 100.32 / 0.55 / 172.87 / 100.43 / 2.67 / 26.07 / 148.55 Canadian National Railway / 178.70 / 1.85 / 185.25 / 126.11 / 2.05 / 31.46 / 107.95 Canadian National / 70.81 / 0.37 / 70.99 / 40.98 / 3.53 / 17.27 / 145.97 Canadian Pacific Kansas / 133.08 / 2.27 / 132.50 / 98.50 / 0.75 / 42.25 / 116.98 Constellation Software / 3041.21 / -54.68 / 4634.98 / 2396.00 / 0.18 / 1012.38 / 63.45 Enbridge / 69.54 / -0.33 / 80.85 / 62.42 / 5.58 / 36.41 / 151.88 Manulife Financial / 58.61 / -0.03 / 63.58 / 47.23 / 3.31 / 21.87 / 97.25 Royal Bank of Canada / 205.67 / -0.96 / 216.16 / 108.54 / 2.49 / 25.65 / 302.42 RBS Securities / 205.63 / 2.53 / 210.10 / 108.54 / 2.49 / 25.65 / 302.42 Suncor Energy / 94.25 / 0.43 / 96.53 / 53.02 / 2.55 / 24.61 / 110.24 TCE Energy / 85.44 / -1.57 / 100.18 / 69.41 / 4.11 / 34.18 / 85.44 The Toronto-Dominion Bank Inc. / -0.18 / 175.33 / 100.01 / 2.69 / 19.52 / 272.41 Waste Connections / 233.35 / 0.92 / 261.25 / 203.46 / 0.83 / 56.23 / 58.82

Korean Finance House / 0.77 / 0.00 / 0.85 / 0.77 / 3.12 / 23.12 / 15.22

| 墨西哥(墨西哥比索) | | | | | | | | Ameica Movil B / 20.14 / 0.28 / 24.49 / 17.48 / 2.68 / 0.00 / 1252.41 Wal-Mart de Mexico / 46.57 / -1.08 / 63.97 / 46.45 / 2.49 / 0.00 / 812.48 | 荷兰(欧元) | | | | | | | | Adyen / 1074.00 / 11.20 / 1600.80 / 772.40 / 0.00 / 58.98 / 34.03 ASM Holding / 1506.00 / 0.60 / 1741.00 / 611.80 / 0.52 / 75.64 / 584.55 Heineken / 72.42 / 0.64 / 80.44 / 63.90 / 2.85 / 15.54 / 40.95 | ING | | | | | | | |

组别 / 29.83 / 0.09 / 31.21 / 20.21 / 3.81 / 15.07 / 85.71

| 挪威(NOK) | | | | | | | |

| 德国(EUR) | | | | | | | |

inkddi AG / 154.45 / 3.45 / 196.40 / 129.95 / 1.81 / 20.70 / 27.88 安联 / 440.80 / 2.50 / 442.90 / 328.80 / 3.88 / 15.41 / 167.69 SAB / 51.67 / 1.30 / 51.67 / 40.00 / 1.80 / 10.00 宝马 / 58.98 / 0.96 / 97.92 / 56.40 / 7.47 / 4.95 / 36.26 德意志银行 / 32.38 / 0.09 / 34.26 / 23.82 / 3.09 / 10.25 / 61.85 德意志交易所 / 202.90 / 3.30 / 280.70 / 200.10 / 1.48 / 42.93 / 52.70 德国电信 / 29.54 / 0.22 / 34.36 / 23.53 / 3.46 / 14.69 / 140.35 DVA集团 / 55.98 / 0.58 / 58.30 / 36.99 / 3.39 / 18.12 / 64.38 Informa科技 / 65.57 / 0.56 / 68.63 / 38.82 / 0.63 / 12.69 / 73.09 Fiatris / 65.72 / 0.10 / 67.19 / 40.00 / 0.00 / 12.54 / 213.54 默克 / 537.95 / -0.10 / 148.80 / 100.70 / 1.59 / 21.59 / 17.83 Muncherech Russ / 516.40 / 3.20 / 575.90 / 437.40 / 4.65 / 24.66 / 65.57 保时捷 / 45.01 / 0.41 / 50.66 / 35.62 / 2.24 / 11.29 / 20.50 Rivonmental / 1155.40 / -6.60 / 2088.00 / 800.20 / 1.00 / 69.98 / 54.05 SAP / 188.12 / 2.48 / 244.30 / 127.50 / 1.33 / 30.64 / 231.11 施耐德通讯 / 262.72 / 1.10 / 278.10 / 189.20 / 1.10 / 10.00 西门子能源 / 153.36 / 0.78 / 191.66 / 83.32 / 0.46 / 243.43 / 132.06 西门子健康 / 40.20 / 0.39 / 49.71 / 32.81 / 2.49 / 21.05 / 45.35 大众汽车 / 76.30 / 0.65 / 110.20 / 71.00 / 6.82 / 5.74 / 22.52 大众-菲亚特 / 75.02 / 0.58 / 109.15 / 68.20 / 7.01 / 5.64 / 15.47

农业银行乳业 / 0.78 / -0.03 / 8.69 / 5.79 / 3.68 / 8.85 / 21.64 中国银行 / 6.05 / 0.00 / 6.39 / 5.13 / 3.74 / 8.18 / 14.43 交通银行A / 7.02 / 1.01 / 7.77 / 6.37 / 4.56 / 6.59 / 412.29 中国建设银行A / 10.52 / -0.05 / 10.98 / 8.50 / 3.89 / 8.10 / 223.06 中国人寿保险B / 10.02 / 0.14 / 51.92 / 30.32 / 2.31 / 6.79 / 771.10 中国移动通信B / 10.02 / 0.01 / 10.02 / 8.00 / 2.80 / 6.80 / 214.00

| 中国石油化工

股票名称 当前价格 涨跌额 最高价 最低价 涨跌幅(%) 市盈率 市值(亿元)
E 5.10 -0.04 8.14 4.43 3.82 19.47 485.43
中国神华能源A股 48.41 -0.14 51.18 47.24 3.43 17.45 648.86
中国能源药业E股 27.96 -0.20 29.57 25.38 3.58 18.63 664.13
中国联通(香港) 10.02 0.01 10.02 8.00 3.80 18.63 214.00
信安工程服务T股 391.15 6.15 468.75 272.72 0.92 24.23 1724.33
东睦信息A股 18.91 0.11 29.36 17.22 0.53 24.72 290.20
法克森国际互联网 82.84 0.71 84.95 44.03 1.56 25.30 1247.00
IDEX 7.72 -0.01 10.00 7.00 1.00 10.00 100.00
海通中国 18.10 -0.07 23.04 16.64 5.89 5.23 380.05
江苏恒鑫茶叶基金A 17.76 -1.74 74.04 45.26 0.42 40.12 2043.54
贵州马来西亚 1723.83 -38.67 1568.60 1151.61 4.09 19.38 1591.14
鲁银金融服务S股A 54.65 1.31 61.78 39.61 0.55 23.86 461.23
鲁银金融服务S股B 54.65 1.31 61.78 39.61 0.55 23.86 461.23
秘鲁亚洲A股 11.20 0.21 13.69 8.04 4.20 13.02 1.81
中国平安保险集团S股A 5.21 1.21 74.68 46.90 5.12 6.95 568.71
中石油储蓄银行中国A股 4.98 0.01 6.44 4.76 4.36 8.82 4.99
上海一丰房地产C股 10.02 0.01 10.02 7.98 3.80 10.02 100.00
五粮润银行T股A 7.19 -0.90 131.85 70.52 7.24 30.86 278.33
紫金矿业集团 34.74 0.49 44.94 30.45 2.30 17.82 715.71
股票名称 当前价格 涨跌额 最高价 最低价 涨跌幅(%) 市盈率 市值(亿元)
Equinor 399.10 -2.70 422.30 226.40 3.59 205.72 954.15
韩国(韩元)
LG能源解决方案 340500.00 -14500.00 527000.00 290500.00 0.00 74.92 80379.00
三星生物制剂 1551000.00 -20000.00 1987000.00 983000.00 0.00 64.38 71797.27
三星电子 281500.00 10500.00 374500.00 67500.00 0.60 42.62 0.00
三星电子优先股 207000.00 15800.00 243500.00 55100.00 0.61 195.73 166006.84
三星Eplus 360000.00 -18000.00 773000.00 329000.00 0.00 265.04 8957.90
SK hydra 1730000.00 38000.00 2987000.00 245000.00 0.17 27.88 0.00

股票 / 价格 / 涨跌 / 52周 / 市盈率 / 市值(十亿)

最高 / 最低 / 股息率 Shin-Etsu Chemical / 6051.00 / -110.00 / 7930.00 / 4368.00 / 1.92 / 23.95 / 12911.21 SoftBank / 233.80 / 0.70 / 244.80 / 322.60 / 3.76 / 20.60 / 11225.15 SoftBank Group / 5255.00 / -132.00 / 37695.00 / 3365.00 / 0.21 / -6.02 / 30015.76 Sony Financial Group / 160.30 / 2.70 / 219.00 / 129.30 / 5.00 / 39.10 / 11805.26 Sony Group / 3785.00 / 8.00 / 4778.00 / 3043.00 / 0.92 / 69.20 / 22576.72 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial / 6606.00 / 60.00 / 7500.00 / 3868.00 / 2.72 / 16.04 / 25110.23 Takeda Pharmaceutical / 5764.00 / -61.00 / 6633.00 / 4102.00 / 3.54 / 59.58 / 30254.54 Tokio Marine Holdings / 7347.00 / 114.00 / 8468.00 / 5300.00 / 3.33 / 26.30 / 14208.10 Tokyo Electron / 54260.00 / 270.00 / 81290.00 / 19670.00 / 0.85 / 43.27 / 25485.50 Toyota Motor / 3132.00 / 66.00 / 4000.00 / 2666.00 / 3.19 / 10.61 / 45711.50

| 沙特阿拉伯(SAR) | | | | | | | |

ACWA Power / 186.40 / 252.60 / 154.50 / 0.25 / 77.67 / 142.87 Al Rajhi Bank / 64.80 / 113.00 / 62.00 / 2.57 / 16.62 / 388.80 Saudi Arabian Mining / 66.80 / 79.90 / 51.25 / 0.00 / 85.64 / 259.77 Saudi Arabian Oil / 26.40 / 27.96 / 23.04 / 5.14 / 18.33 / 63.89 Saudi Basic Industries / 49.50 / 64.00 / 48.20 / 5.25 / 97.06 / 148.50 Saudi National Bank / 41.66 / 45.24 / 33.30 / 5.52 / 10.31 / 249.96 STC Co / 44.14 / 45.38 / 41.14 / 4.98 / 14.86 / 220.70

HCP / 471.00 / 3.20 / 496.00 / 390.00 / 3.31 / 29.98 / 533.75 | 印度(INR) | | | | | | | | Bajaj Food / 1092.00 / -1.95 / 1177.60 / 788.40 / 0.55 / 57.38 / 8806.22 Bharti Avant Ltd / 1948.90 / 3.40 / 2174.70 / 1745.00 / 1.23 / 148.73 / 21149.63 HCL Technologies / 1304.00 / -1.95 / 1770.00 / 1030.00 / -4.60 / 20.32 / 3536.82 HDFC Bank / 727.50 / 1.00 / 1987.80 / 715.05 / 1.79 / 14.70 / 12111.59 Hindustan Unilever / 2017.00 / -1.95 / 2778.70 / 2006.45 / 2.03 / 46.11 / 4719.13

Powerful study of racial violence

THEATRE

Hang Time

爱丁堡国际艺术节:


蒂姆·贝恩

妮可拉·贝内代蒂为今年爱丁堡国际艺术Festival选择的主题是美国独立250周年。部分节目选择比其他更忠实地延续这一美国主题——如一部关于阿片类药物危机的世界首演歌剧、《再次在美国》——但《Hang Time》却以最直接和最微妙的方式与之相遇。

在缓慢的开场中,幕布拉开,三名黑人男子悬挂在一架无形的绞刑架上。他们的双脚悬在空中,头部下垂。这一静止的场景仅伴随着时间流逝的短暂声音:狗吠、鸟鸣、光线变化。随后他们苏醒并开始交谈。

他们的对话是那种填补空闲时间的轻松闲聊。卡迈尔·博尔登饰演的角色吹嘘他曾与美女同台演唱,偶尔哼唱几句,还拿脾气暴躁的长者伯德(朱利安·拉塞尔饰)开涮,质问穆迪·沃特斯还是弗雷迪·金才是更优秀的音乐人。拉塞尔饰演的谨慎长者伯德给出了长者的睿智而谨慎的建议,而年轻的布拉德(布赖斯·福利饰)则梦想着突破他们所处的困境。

这里有打趣、玩笑、对陈旧轶事的精心复述,还有许多梦想。暗示他们已相识多年。但一切都只是暗示。他们在哪个镇?不知道。可能是任何一处美国社区,任何时代。没有任何解释。没有解释将他们带到那里的情况,也没有解释地点或时代,更没有多少关于这三个男人的信息。

那么,为什么他们会时不时在闲聊中扭动身子,甚至一次次死去又复活?

偶尔会有一些细节可以抓住。布拉德已经攒了$1,000准备旅行。他谈到镇上其他人从未离开过。“他们最期待的就是复活节主日,”他叹息道,“那时他们可以穿上最好的鞋子。‘我不能一辈子都在等待我的一生。’”

很容易被他的梦想所感染。福利饰演的角色那坚定的面容、他的决心和乐观,简直就是一个年轻人的写照。但你随即会想起他所处的境地,以及一切早已为时已晚。

这正是这部剧作力量的源泉——既来自其惊悚构想与他们平凡幽默的对话之间的残酷对比,也来自霍华德在台词表面下推动的巨大暗示与潜台词。仅仅一个小时内,我们仿佛了解了这些男人作为个体及其代表意义的某些本质。

霍华德在导演上也让他们保持静止,除了头部可以从一边转向另一边,仿佛被某种束缚所限制。每当其中一人变得愤怒、情绪激动或烦躁时,就会传来绳索收紧的吱吱声,他的眼睛开始凸出,身体紧绷,脸上充满痛苦。

暗示显而易见。他们陷入了一种永恒的私刑或驯服状态,就像你可能训练一条狗不再吠叫那样,这部作品的隐喻如此可怕地贴近它所代表的事物。

“美好的一天,”布拉德说。“安静。”伯德答道,“世界和平。”在这部剧漫长而无与伦比的延伸中,你几乎可以相信这一点。但这正是它最可怕的地方。所有这些和平、幽默、渴望与同志情谊——直到绞索再次收紧。

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一段令人心碎的分离、更衣室争吵以及一位明星的眼泪悉数呈现在《A Beautiful Obsession》中,这是一部关于佩普·瓜迪奥拉执教曼城最后两个赛季的新Prime Video剧集。

流媒体平台已深度介入足球俱乐部纪录片领域,自行制作或委托制作此类节目,例如亚马逊旗下88.38工作室的《无所不有》(All or Nothing)系列。Netflix的《桑德兰“永不言弃”》(Sunderland 'Til I Die)第一季于2008年上线,为同类作品树立了极高标杆,但大多数后续作品并未达到这一水平。然而,最新的曼城系列并未延续这些节目所描绘的精英世界观。焦点集中在一位绝望的瓜迪奥拉身上,他正在经历连败,而此前不久他刚刚率队完成英超历史上第四次连冠。

执导该片的凯文·麦克唐纳(Kevin Macdonald)曾凭借《九月一日》(One Day in September)斩获奥斯卡奖,该片讲述的是1972年慕尼黑奥运会期间以色列运动员遇袭事件。他的参与将这部作品从典型的俱乐部颂歌中提升至更高层次。他与曼城工作室(俱乐部内部内容制作团队)合作打造了这部四集作品。

麦克唐纳与联合导演约翰·德·坎(John De Cann)推出的一项创新是加入俱乐部首席执行官费兰·约维亚诺(Ferran Ioviano)与主席穆巴拉克(Mubarak)之间的语音便条。这些便条

更衣室风波:瓜迪奥拉在进行战术部署

丰富了令人震惊的镜头画面,这些画面揭示了曼城持续输球背后的深层裂痕。瓜迪奥拉与队长凯尔·沃克争执不断,导致后者在2024-25赛季中途离队。中场球员凯文·德布劳内在描述自己未获续约时泣不成声:“对我们这个家庭来说,这段日子太艰难了。”瓜迪奥拉的顾问曼努埃尔·埃斯蒂亚特(Manuel Estiarte)甚至向球员们透露老板的离婚,以便他们“看到一个真实的人”。

2024赛季那段艰难时光里,瓜迪奥拉头上的自残伤痕曾被对手球迷嘲笑,而最终球队还是锁定了欧冠资格。但挫败感在最后一个赛季中仍未消散。

在11月对阵勒沃库森的失利后,他对球员们进行了一次非同寻常的独白,提及为俱乐部付出的个人生活代价,并指责球员未能与他同甘共苦。

他问道:“我为你们工作,放弃了我的生活、我的离婚和我的家庭。你们又回报了什么?当我看到(这样的表现)时,我筋疲力尽、心力交瘁。我想要辞职。”

当球迷们渴望从俱乐部获得更多内容时,去除脚本化虚饰的压力与日俱增。一些曼城球迷对Netflix一部描绘球队夺冠赛季的纪录片感到不满,因为其中的“憾事”被包装成了心碎故事。

随着球队赢得两座国内杯赛冠军,纪录片最终回归了典型体育纪录片的温和基调,但围绕俱乐部的财务处罚问题(曼城否认不当行为)却未被提及。

然而,正是在伯尔滕穆尔(Beurtenmold)一场必须取胜的比赛中场休息时的一次战术谈话中,人们清楚地意识到瓜迪奥拉的时代即将终结。

这部影片表明,流媒体平台需要更多未经粉饰的真实故事来留住球迷——而这些故事也应超越俱乐部的核心粉丝群体。

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FT 深度报道:制造业

几十年来,瑞士出口商一直专注于为高端产品增值,但去年美国总统唐纳德·特朗普对瑞士征收关税、全球贸易碎片化以及瑞士法郎走强,正在给它们带来更严重的冲击。

当特朗普去年对瑞士征收关税时,Fekes公司首席执行官纳比尔·弗朗西斯的第一反应是震惊。

“这是一个警钟,”弗朗西斯说,Fekes以生产高品质园艺工具闻名,“当瑞士受到的待遇与欧盟不同,你就能理解世界正在发生变化。”

几代人以来,Fekes在法语区纳沙泰尔的绿色山谷中制造其标志性产品,并在此度假。据报道,约95%的产品在瑞士生产,这家家族企业的客户包括查尔斯国王和美国前第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马。

突然间,其最大单一市场——美国的关税从15%(欧盟竞争对手的税率)飙升至39%。但弗朗西斯的应对策略并非将生产转移至更廉价的国家,也不是让Fekes产品变得更便宜。

相反,他选择让产品更昂贵、更具吸引力,增加皮革包裹的手柄、镀金刀片和激光雕刻个性化等选项。

Fekes坚持高品质的策略是瑞士制造业的典型代表,瑞士制造业在GDP中仍占近39%。然而,随着法郎升值和主要贸易伙伴转向贸易保护主义,这一策略正变得越来越难以实施。为增加“瑞士制造”定义灵活性的举措已引发立法者和制造商的强烈反对。

“如果回顾法郎汇率从过去到现在的变化,你会惊讶瑞士公司竟然还能生存。”

瑞士今年在全球竞争力排名中从第一位滑落至第三位(1980年),而其经济表现排名从第13位降至第57位。

“在一个更碎片化、更保护主义的世界中,瑞士模式几乎无法保持不受污染,”INDI金融学教授阿图罗·布里亚表示。

瑞士制造业最大的行业协会将2023年描述为“动荡的一年”,销售停滞,6,600个科技行业岗位消失。该协会补充称,目前正在进行1,000人的裁员回收。

回到纳沙泰尔,弗朗西斯承认在个性化方面“一切都有极限”。但Fekes尚未触及这一极限,新系列产品将于9月推出,采用醒目的亮色(如电光蓝、活力绿、粉色牧场和橙红闪耀)为其知名产品增色。

他希望将简单的修枝剪打造成一种“生活方式物件”,就像拉科斯特那样——明亮色彩的厨具已成为厨房风格宣言。

“我们的重点仍将是创意高端。‘如果你是一家在瑞士生产并出口的工业企业,你不会去瞄准大众市场,’”弗朗西斯说。

“我们不会让你看到太多。”

工业异类

一个拥有900万人口、自然资源匮乏且工资水平为全球最高之一的内陆国家,看似并非制造业机遇的理想起点。

但瑞士做到了。面对高工资和不断升值的货币,瑞士企业通过提高生产率、专业化、精细化和高端化来应对,同时将目光投向全球市场而非本土市场规模。

“瑞士制造”成为优质周刊、机械和精密工具的代名词,全球客户愿为之支付溢价。其结果之一是,瑞士经济中涌现出大量相对较小的企业,它们在特定细分领域占据主导地位。

这些“隐形冠军”涵盖从VAT(一家为半导体生产提供真空阀的制造商),到Beechhardt Compression这样的压缩机专家,乃至Rondo等专业企业——其机器将面团压制成联邦和小联邦的糕点。

此类隐形冠军的韧性帮助阿尔卑斯国家抵御了席卷西欧的去工业化浪潮。瑞士在19个成员国中拥有最高比例的高科技制造业。

这种实力得益于瑞士异常深厚的学徒制体系。约三分之二的瑞士年轻人接受职业教育和培训,大部分在企业内部学习,为雇主提供熟练劳动力。

“瑞士制造”的日益增长的威胁

1960年代,Bernina公司的工人在斯德哥尔摩生产缝纫机。该公司以强势法郎及美国艰难的市场条件为由,将其批量生产转移至泰国。右下图:由Fekes生产的一双假发,该公司对特朗普关税的应对方式是提高产品吸引力并抬高价格。

该实力得益于瑞士异常深厚的学徒制体系。约三分之二的瑞士年轻人接受职业教育和培训,大部分在企业内部学习,为雇主提供熟练劳动力。

2024年1月,Born公司进一步推进其开放机械的承诺,单方面废除了所有工业品进口关税。政府认为,更廉价的进口组件将降低瑞士制造商的成本。

但其对自由贸易、出口驱动型成功故事的愿景正与一个更加保护主义的世界格格不入。美国关税正鼓励企业在更靠近美国客户的地方制造,而中国长期以来一直支持被视为战略性的产业,欧洲则以补贴和政策禁止在欧盟内部生产作为回应。

法郎仍是瑞士出口商的持续障碍。作为知名货币,法郎在不确定时期往往会走强——金融危机、新冠疫情以及乌克兰和中东冲突都使瑞士产品在海外变得更加昂贵。

“如果回顾几年前法郎汇率的位置与现在相比,真难以想象瑞士企业仍能生存。”瑞士PMS协会董事Urs Fuerer表示。

前瑞士国家银行主席Thomas Jordan认为,近年来法郎的实际汇率“异常稳定”,但他承认,在汇率急剧上升后进行调整需要企业付出巨大努力。

与Fekes老板一样,Fuerer也不认为瑞士能保住所有制造业。“大量生产廉价、低质商品不是未来。”他说。

瑞士制造的分量有多重?

在费克斯公司的工厂内,这座坐落于昔日钟表工厂的厂房中,自动化精密机器正在运转,知识在这里被加工。

弗朗西斯表示,公司因自动化并未直接裁员,这反而提高了生产力,使生产得以留在瑞士,同时工人转岗至新岗位。

每台机器仍由手工组装,这意味着费克斯遵守了2017年生效的严格“瑞士制造”立法。该法规规定,对于大多数工业产品,至少60%的制造成本必须产生于瑞士,且必须在瑞士完成关键制造步骤,才能以“瑞士制造”名义销售。

但对于拥有155年历史的缝纫机制造商伯尼纳公司而言,今年其生产已从瑞士东部的斯德哥尔摩转移至泰国工厂。该公司面临瑞郎走强和美国市场艰难条件的双重压力,而美国市场占其销售额近75%。

伯尼纳将在斯德哥尔摩保留逾300名员工,同时保留开发、生产、建设、测试和质量管理等岗位。“伯尼纳的DNA是且永远是瑞士的,”首席执行官凯特·希尔布兰特表示,尽管瑞士生产“不再具有经济合理性”,其缝纫机也不再能被称为“瑞士制造”。

自瑞士联邦知识产权局(IFI)在3月放宽对“瑞士制造”规则的解释(理由是瑞郎走强和美国关税)后,企业可在满足特定条件下使用“瑞士工程”或“瑞士研发”等替代性描述。

此前,一场长期争议围绕着以瑞士十字标识闻名的苏黎世运动鞋制造商——由网球明星罗杰·费德勒代言的品牌。该品牌曾将瑞士十字印在亚洲制造的鞋子上。该品牌辩称,海外制造已成为大规模生产的供应链所必需,而其产品的大部分价值——设计、工程、技术和知识产权——均在瑞士创造,因此应允许突出这一点。但“瑞士制造”执法机构(一个旨在打击瑞士标识滥用的公私合营实体)认为,此举违反了五项规则,因鞋子并非瑞士制造。

“为何要使用瑞士商标?”该机构总经理大卫·施特尔克问道,“你们是想从瑞士声誉的价值中获利。”

瑞士商业报纸《新苏黎世报》周日报道称,有人向IFI施压,包括威胁若当局的行动导致其在中国市场失利,将提起国家责任诉讼。IFI“强烈否认”了这一说法,并表示其通信属于寻求法律明确性的正常程序。

自IFI放宽规则以来,政治家们已提交动议,寻求再次收紧规则。“瑞士十字及其权利是针对海外制造的产品——就这么简单,”中右翼议员丹妮尔·舍恩伯格表示。

工业组织也表达了不满。瑞士机械协会主席尼古拉·托塔曼蒂表示,该协会代表逾1,000家瑞士机械企业,其成员仍强烈依附于“瑞士制造”理念。

他预期,在瑞士存续的生产将愈发专业化且技术要求更高,因机器人和AI公司需承担高成本。“我们在瑞士有机会,”他说,若企业在技术、质量和速度上保持卓越。

维氏仍在瑞士生产其著名的瑞士军刀,但其行李箱设计为瑞士风格,并在亚洲制造,其标识为黑底白十字的纹章图案,而非传统的白底红十字。

当家乐氏(Mondelez)的美国母公司将部分巧克力生产转移至斯洛伐克后,其包装不得再使用马特洪峰等瑞士原产地标识,但用一座普通山峰取代著名山峰并更改措辞并未影响销售。

隶属于德国Interuders的奢华护肤品牌La Prairie深化了其瑞士根基,将全球营销团队从纽约迁回,并于2021年全资收购了主要生产其护肤系列的St Collins公司。

“瑞士制造不仅是我们的原产国,更是我们的身份一部分,”La Prairie首席执行官埃梅勒·勒汉(Emelle Lehang)表示,“我们的瑞士传统持续塑造我们的创新方向。”她补充道,尽管价格不菲——其Skin Color Laser霜30毫升售价约200。

“生存的事业”

瑞士远非独自面对这些压力,但其产业界有理由保持信心。瑞士仍拥有世界上最复杂、最多元的工业基础之一,自动化正在改变某些行业中劳动力成本的占比。

剩余的制造业变得更加专业化、自动化,并集中在瑞士精密工艺仍能证明成本合理的领域。

瑞士制造商协会(Swissmen)董事Stefan Stegbacher认为,这种路径几乎别无选择。 “瑞士工业过于多元,无法选择少数几家公司进行补贴。”

长期以来的共识是:企业接受全球竞争,而政府则提供竞争框架——市场准入、优质教育、稳健的公共财政和有限的监管。

瑞士的Stühlke坚称瑞士制造业将挺过难关: “我不知道。全球市场的范围极为广阔,无论发生什么都无法改变。”

即便如此,全球贸易仍在碎片化。瑞士最近完成了与中国升级版自由贸易协定的谈判。修订后的协议将允许90.8%的瑞士现有出口商品进入中国市场。

Stegbacher质疑其他地区的补贴竞赛能否持续: “我们拭目以待,10年后谁能成功。谁有资金继续补贴?”

对瑞士制造商而言,答案是:生产顾客难以从其他渠道获取的产品和零部件。

“现在我们仍不可或缺,”他说道,“我们正在做‘生存的事业’。”

瑞士在增加值总额、生产率和就业增长方面超越欧盟同行

增长(2000年,美国,5)

数据来源:基于奥斯汀瑞士(Austin Suisse)的欧盟统计局数据计算


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《金融时报》

2026年8月25日,星期二

《金融时报》观点

《金融时报》 不偏不倚,秉公而论

R. Lunn / Sprinter

美国国债市场干预只是权宜之计

长期债券和日元干预措施无法从根本上缓解市场长期焦虑

在数月口头承诺维持汇率体系后,英国政府于1992年9月24日加入欧洲汇率机制,却未能与其他欧盟货币保持同步。"黑色星期三"事件损害了政府信誉,并为做空英镑的投资者带来丰厚回报。其中就包括一位在伦敦施乐基金管理公司工作的年轻美国交易员:斯科特·本内特。

如今,美国财政部长发现自己处于谈判桌的另一端。本内特无需维持货币挂钩,而是必须支撑全球最重要的债券市场——当美国国债面临短期弱势之际。

本内特喜欢将自己的角色描述为美国的"债盟"。其目标是维持债券高价与低利率。但他近期试图控制国债的举措并未触及美国债券市场动荡的根本驱动因素。正如本内特从约翰·梅杰执政时期的经验中所知(坦率而言,干预措施仅在决策者在市场眼中拥有信誉时才有效)。

近年来,美国国债脆弱性持续上升,主要源于高支出与减税政策导致的持续财政赤字。高利率进一步加剧了偿还国债的压力。典型的国债购买模式正从持有至到期的主权买家、养老基金和保险公司转向追求更高收益率的投机资金。大量资本投入AI dits system推高了债券价格,主权发行人正与企业借款方和私人信贷竞争,进一步推升利率。

本内特的干预措施旨在减轻长期国债收益率的上行压力。本月支持疲软日元的举动意在减轻日本加息或抛售国债以支撑本币的压力——两者均可能削弱加元并推高美国政府借贷成本。今年早些时候,本内特曾提议向海湾国家(如阿拉伯联合酋长国,也是美国国债的主要持有国)提供互换额度。支持盟国货币与流动性状况以避免国债抛售仅为权宜之计,无法解决政策信誉与过度债务问题。

上周,本内特继续调整对国债市场的政策,释放出财政部将购买两倍长期债券的信号。本内特一直批评美国财政部在债券到期问题上的"常规且可预测"流程。上周的干预在当天推高了长期债券,但其规模和最终效果却基本未改变市场状况。

唯一可持续的降低上行压力的方式是财政审慎

报告显示财政部可能动用主要支票账户资金回购债券,但该计划的规模仍有待观察。

作为全球最重要债券市场的管理者,以及维护全球储备货币的关键角色,本内特的干预措施影响着全球经济。美联储新班子的犹豫不决并未助其努力。他的话语旨在传达其观点:

但本内特的行动至今仅是为结构性高赤字与持续通胀导致的深层问题贴上创可贴。唯一可持续的降低国债上行压力的方式是财政审慎。本内特强调应将预算赤字限制在占GDP 5%的水平,约为当前赤字的一半。他应敦促特朗普政府与国会实现这一目标。

为何英国政府成本更高却效率更低

斯蒂芬·布什

英国政府在完成基本职能方面举步维艰,但税收负担却高得离谱。原因何在?

在威斯敏斯特,各种理论层出不穷。但令人意外的是,其中许多理论都基于一个基本事实:政府做得更少,是因为在金融危机后,我们有意识地拒绝通过管理危机成本(主要是通过削减支出而非时间)来让政府做得更少。

为何政府支出占GDP的比重比2010年前更高?原因在于,关于“GDP占比”的讨论几乎总是在兜售最多只能算是部分真相的东西。你可能会看到支出占GDP比重上升,仅仅是因为你的国家增长缓慢,或是你所花费资金的对象变得更加昂贵,或者是因为一系列

关于“GDP占比”的论点几乎总是在兜售某种片面真理

全球冲击迫使你承担更多债务。或者,如果你极其不幸——正如英国自2016年以来的处境——你可能因此被迫出售资产。

自金融危机以来,英国经济仅有一次短暂显现出复苏迹象,但那并非事实。我们将拭目以待。但如果经济增长乏力,即使你原地踏步,GDP占比也会上升。

“GDP占比”论点还能以其他方式提供虚假信息。

例如,从“GDP占比”来看,英国在2010年与现在的福利支出水平相当,福利账单并未“膨胀失控”或“失控”。但更重要的是,2010年英国更大一部分福利支出用于所谓的中间就业计划——为未做好工作准备的人提供就业经验——以及税收抵免,以提高最低工资水平。如今,更大一部分福利账单流向了失业者或无工作能力的人。后一群体已大幅增加,部分原因在于其他形式的帮助人们就业的福利支出被削减。

英国的政府规模确实比过去小了。例如,政府在金融危机期间为民众提供的许多服务如今已不复存在。税收抵免不再那么慷慨,而由于最低工资上涨,企业需缴纳更高税率,就业成本也随之上升。在英格兰,我们不再向最贫困的34至35岁群体每周支付20英镑以留在学校。在英国大部分地区,地方当局提供的信贷服务已成为历史。但与某些认为英国政府规模过大的观点相反,英国对普通民众的税负实际上也更轻。“风险分担”或“扩大承担范围”等比喻确实意味着富裕群体需承担更多。

我们有一个由富裕群体支付的政府,其成本主要用于风险承担、意愿支持和应对危机,而由于全球风险支出普遍上升,英国面临的成本也日益加大。与大多数其他发达国家不同,英国几乎所有医疗支出都需先通过政府渠道。

将以上因素综合考虑,英国有三种可行选择。第一种是接受现状:说服英国民众在现有税负下接受现有的政府服务水平。这看似无所作为。

另外两种选择则截然不同,或需承担双重风险。

一种是让民众接受政府需提供更多服务——不仅是针对事实,也针对少数为子女选择私立教育的群体——但为此他们需缴纳更多税款。

另一种是效仿同行,决定将更多医疗和老龄化人口成本通过私人支出来承担——无论是通过强制保险、学校模式或其他方式。

最后,你或许还可选择第三条道路,例如医疗共付制,或为刑事司法系统投入更多资金。

问题是,无论你选择哪种方案,都可能面临不受欢迎的风险,并让选民决定他们更倾向于另一种选择。但这总好过在回避公众对政府如何花钱这一艰难选择的同时,沉迷于讨论那些低垂的果实。

stephen.bush@fi.com

读者来信

古驰在平价与渴望之间的钢丝

成本削减是商业的自然使命。但对于古驰这样的奢侈品牌而言,若这一举措通过外部可感知的方式——例如提高产品的平价性——来体现,则可能损害其创造需求的核心排他性(“奢侈品牌的核心价值”),正如Lois在8月12日所言。

消费者购买古驰并非因为它便宜。他们为排他性与可持续性付费;该品牌是地位的象征,其价值深植于品牌认同。将成本效率转化为平价产品或许能扩大消费群体,尤其是在年轻一代中,但可能侵蚀品牌的渴望感,进而削弱其价值与潜力。

古驰希望找到一种平衡,正如新冠疫情期间最成功的品牌之一蒂芙尼所做的那样。蒂芙尼在渴望与平价之间走钢丝:既拥有高端独家产品,又配套推出平价系列。它在扩大受众的同时,继续投资于打造其高端奢侈品牌的工艺与传承,成效显著。

若古驰以成本节约为导向谋求长期增长,应效仿这一动态。在扩大整体产品供给的同时,投资于其传统高端时尚地位。

在品牌层面,现任创意总监领导下的创意力正被悉心培育。若古驰继续投入,或能在不损伤奢华品牌的前提下,扩展更多平价产品线。

Gonzalo Brogi 镀金2020,Interbond,马德里,西班牙

先有鸡还是先有蛋:非洲人口挑战

在其专栏《非洲子民太少了!》中(观点,8月12日),David Filling忽视了近期经济史的教训及撒哈拉以南非洲的具体语境:过去40年间,该地区国家以每年2.5%至5%的速度增长,却未能构建人力资本(教育与健康)。此外,非洲经济长期依赖原材料而非工业化。尽管撒哈拉以南非洲拥有若干大型城市,但大多数城市仍深受贫困困扰。最后,竞争并非机遇,正如19世纪欧洲人迁往美洲那样。

真正的关键不在于人口数量,而在于人力资本的质量——这才是推动发展的引擎,使国家得以融入全球经济。

没有任何国家能在未完成人口评估的情况下发展人力资本,包括显著降低生育率。这是撒哈拉以南非洲国家的先决条件,也是该地区提升人均GDP的唯一途径——过去60年间,该地区人均GDP始终令人痛心地停滞不前。

John F May 乔治·梅森大学研究教授,阿灵顿,弗吉尼亚州,03

Jean-Pierre Gonsignat 可持续发展研究所(IRD)研究主任,马赛,法国

这里有一个事实被忽视了

几乎整个科技界

玛格丽特·麦吉夫的来信(《“在某种程度上,它确实如此”》,7月21日)和克洛伊·麦克唐纳的客座专栏(《“这种复兴远不止对过去的怀念”》,8月7日观点版)都在教导(原文如此)一件本应显而易见但几乎被整个科技界刻意忽视的事实。即我们的智能是被引导、进化且具有生物性的,并与我们的身体密不可分。

大脑的工作是控制身体在世界中活动;它是最后发育的器官。

我们双手(以及皮肤其他每一平方厘米)中约有4,700个这样的感受器或神经末梢,对不同类型的触觉——例如一只狗、一位英雄、一场风暴、一个陷阱——都极为敏感,它们分布在不同部位,从而触发相应的反应。

对危险信号,自主神经系统会迅速做出反应;对携带意义的信号,则会以不同的通道缓慢处理。

除了双手无限的多功能性外,它还能自我调节,掌控自身的能力,因此无需编程即可判断对鸡蛋、网球或一天大的小鸡施加多少压力。

当我们将玻璃杯放在桌上或用刀切苹果时,我们感受到的是桌子或苹果,而不是手中的玻璃杯或刀柄(不妨一试!)。

最后,也是最紧迫的一点:整个人体——包括双手——仅靠约25瓦的可移除能量运转:这只是人类所参考的能量,甚至比当前其他原始位置的能耗还低得多。

因此,“这种复兴”并非文化意义上的复苏。

它是数年进化的呐喊,亟待被倾听,而我们却正在将其彻底压制,以服务于一个自动化且死气沉沉的星球。

希拉·谢尔曼 剑桥大学技术与民主中心顾问委员会成员 伦敦西敏 SW1,英国

更正

■《展望》栏目在8月22日美国工作评审小组中对一项实验性数据的表述有误:该数据与美国制药商施贵宝相关,而非德国的施托克。

展望

美国

重温洛克比空难37年后

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作者:帕蒂·沃尔德迈尔

1946年12月21日,泛美航空103号班机在苏格兰洛克比上空坠毁,造成370人死亡。如今,美国法院将首次审判被指控应为此负责的嫌疑人之一。

我原本预订了那趟航班。那个年代,纸质机票仍是主流,在线预订尚未普及,于是我前往伦敦一家“洛克比商店”购买了一张回底特律过圣诞的廉价机票。

正是那里的人救了我的命:在最后一刻,旅行社将我在伦敦飞纽约的航班从泛美103号改签至环球航空同一时刻的航班。我续程从纽约飞底特律的机票未受影响。我记得自己当时非常恼火,因为必须在纽约换乘。

我父亲是一名记者,只知道他要在底特律接泛美103号班机,赶上第二天是我母亲去世六周年忌日。当他听说航班起飞后不久便爆炸时,他甚至为我写好了讣告并送去排版。直到数小时后,他才得知我幸免于难。

其他父母、配偶、朋友和亲人则没有这么幸运。自此37年间,许多人在未能得知可能从华盛顿联邦法庭审判中浮现的关键细节的情况下离世。该案被告——一名被指控制造炸弹的前利比亚情报官员——的陪审团选定工作本周开始。

这并非首次洛克比审判——

但这是25年来首次在美国本土进行。早在2003年,利比亚前领导人马泽马尔政权曾为洛克比事件承担“整体责任”,此前一名利比亚情报官员于2005年在荷兰特别设立的法庭被判谋杀罪。如今,另一名前利比亚情报官员阿布·阿格·穆罕默德·瓦希德·海尔·马里米将在美国陪审团面前受审。这仍是美国历史上最致命的恐怖袭击,也是除9月11日外对美国平民造成伤亡最严重的袭击。

洛克比事件至今仍是公众关注的焦点。英国广播公司(BBC)的《泛美103号轰炸案》Netflix剧集上月在美国上线10年后登陆Netflix美国。该剧中多位“受害者权利”活动家——包括凯瑟琳·特伦斯(Kathryn Turrens)——认为袭击发生的时间是其魅力所在:“真正触动人心的是,这是一趟圣诞航班,机上有22个家庭团体,飞机坠落在苏格兰的一个小市场……”但特伦斯表示,1998年,整个故事中还包括35名留学生。

泛美103号班机最终改变了航空公司和政府处理航空安全的方式。保罗·戈登(Paul Gordon)的10岁女儿在这场悲剧中遇难,他现任航空乘客咨询组织“维塞诺格鲁”主席。他告诉我,洛克比事件促成了更好的爆炸物检测、奖励计划(用于揭发其他阴谋)以及对国家支持的恐怖主义的威慑。

我询问斯特凡妮·伯恩斯坦(Stephanie Bernstein)——她的丈夫在这场悲剧中遇难,现任“泛美103号受害者”美国团体副主席——一次新的审判能实现什么。毕竟,这已是近四十年后的事了。她说:“我们并非指望它能改变世界,无论那是什么。我们将其视为迈向正义的一小步,让那些法律上能被追责的人承担责任。最好的结果是,我们能确认谁应为此负责……我们需要确保,当人们登机时,不会被炸出天际!”

但专家表示,这可能是一个非常好的结局。瓦希德在利比亚拘留期间确认了其参与行为,其律师试图为其辩护,尽管大量证据令人信服,判决结果可能不会超过100年。

[修正后翻译]

我能理解不让时间拖累最该负责的人——但75年实在太长了!图伦斯表示反对。“时间长短无关紧要。只要有办法,我们就该、也必须追求正义。”我逃过了洛克比空难,而那些不幸罹难者及其年迈的家属,理应再有一天走进法庭。

作者为本报特约撰稿人

2020年8月25日

《金融时报》

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斯科特·贝森特

2020年8月25日

1943年,盟国召开德黑兰会议,谋划一场未知行动的进程。

罗斯福和丘吉尔权衡了一场最终将以诺曼底登陆告终的战役。

伊朗一直是世界上的一个恶性肿瘤。在伊朗国内,一个腐败的政权将本应成为世界最强经济体之一的国家推向崩溃,令其企业陷入衰退。

在其国境之外,伊朗政权维系着一个代理网络,延续其暴行。美国为此付出了尤其惨痛的代价,但我们并非唯一面对这一局面的国家。

然而,在捍卫世界秩序的决心方面,我们却发现自己形单影只。

特朗普总统已将伊朗经济推至前所未有的困境,美国从未如此迫切地寻求制裁,通胀也罕见地高企。该政权的最后避难所如今只剩下那些仍相信制裁是问题的国家的自欺欺人。

伊朗的航空能力与石油运输业为其金融流动提供便利,通过离岸金融机构和自由贸易区实现资金流通。它们为伊朗航班提供便利,并对世界各地的走私活动保持警惕——所有这些都在掩盖其同谋程度。简而言之,这些国家将与该政权保持表面联系视为外交常态。但

它们应当好好考虑持续支撑该政权的后果。

17世纪,法国哲学家帕斯卡对这种诱惑背后的困境给出了永恒的表达。他深知,不确定性并不能免除个人或国家做出直接判断的责任。事实上,它要求人们对风险进行更严格的评估,并为错误付出更高的代价。

那些从未切断与伊朗金融和商业联系的国家将重振自身。

它们将加深对全球资本的获取,增强市场信心,并获得其在世界经济中所追求的地位。

而那些选择依附德黑兰的国家,则别无选择,只能走向持久繁荣之路的终结。当信心崩溃时,非法金融往往会繁荣,正如它经常所做的那样。任何将自己变成一个日渐衰弱政权的金融动脉的国家,都应预期将分担其孤立。成为恐怖主义的庇护所,在美方眼中,即等同于成为全球强权。

全世界都应理解,我们的目标是永远切断为暴虐政权输送救命稻草的渠道,直到德黑兰陷入孤立。因为,倘若救赎成为一种选择,当一股伟大的美国浪潮从这个国家退去时,我们信任它。

在津巴布韦,报纸的支持者们呼吁现任总统终身担任“空中事实”(air-facts)总统。他刚刚向他们展示了这一点。现在,有人从特朗普昔日的支持者那里汲取了灵感,他们可能寻求第三个任期。而随着暴政接踵而至。

有人悲观地——且不准确地——谈论着“弱肉强食法则”的回归。当英国帝国主义的桂冠诗人鲁德亚德·吉卜林以该短语为诗作标题时,这本是一种赞美。他所描述的“弱肉强食”体现的是合作而非混乱。“因为群体的力量就是狼的力量,”他写道,“而狼的力量就是群体的力量。”

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《金融时报》

2024年8月25日

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帕特里克·詹金斯 私人信贷的保险热潮 或将在数十年间引发年金痛苦

近期商业新闻

Shein的IPO定位应更像Meta而非H&M

从快时尚到平庸时尚:Shein即将在香港公开发行的IPO估值,对一家投资者曾在2022年估值达$500bn的公司而言,是一次重大打击。

若将Shein视为一个饱受假货问题困扰的超级专业化市场平台,其估值下调实属应得。但若将其视为另一种存在——一个成瘾性下滑的游戏化缺口——那便是另一番景象。

投资者青睐的两大要素是增长与盈利能力,而Shein在这两方面均呈现错误方向。去年收入仅增长4%,相比之下,2024年为20%。

仅有4.9%的销售额转化为利润,几乎是前一年的一半。美国和欧盟收紧了所谓的文件规定,使低价值包裹得以规避进口税。

与时尚同行相比,其估值仍显偏高。公司称“黄色时尚市场”将在2030年前以约5.2%的年增长率扩张。若其能实现这一目标,并将销售额的2.5%转化为利润(如其在最近一个季度在调整一次性因素后所做),则公司今年利润将达15亿美元。

即便如此,$27bn的估值仍相当于21倍的预期收益。欧洲零售商的平均市盈率为26倍,而H&M为22倍。两者的盈利增长速度均快于这家新加坡注册的公司。难怪昔日的在线奇迹已黯然失色。倘若这些比较并不恰当呢?

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Shein长期受假货问题困扰

毕竟Shein与H&M和欧洲零售商在诸多重要方面存在差异。它缺乏对方的实体店网络,且其由众多小供应商构成的网络能按小批量生产以测试需求,从而提供几乎无限的产品组合且库存极低。

其价格足够低廉,在线引擎足够精密,以致用户能轻松浏览数小时并批量购买。实际上,Shein的价格优势不仅限于服装零售商,还适用于任何为屏幕绑定用户提供多巴胺套装的业务。

以游戏为例,该商业模式依赖于从目不转睛的用户身上榨取应用内购买。以7家低竞争度的交易平台为例,其预期市盈率约为30倍,未来5年利润预计年增长50%。

赌博业也试图从类似冲动中获利。美国体育与博彩公司DraftKings正拓展生产性市场,其预期市盈率约为47倍。

作为独居经济支出的最大受益者之一,DraftKings的净收入预计在未来几年内以年均超过100%的速度增长。

最强大的成瘾性下滑机器或许是Meta Platforms(Instagram与Facebook的母公司),其广告驱动收入年增长近30%。当然,差异巨大,Meta的股价因其庞大的AI投资而受压制。

但Meta的市值彰显了为用户提供多巴胺的巨大价值。若Shein仅将自身定位为一家时尚零售商,或许正在错失良机。

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减肥者对乳清蛋白的需求为蛋白质价格再添动力

“小矮人穆尔福特”领先于她的时代。如今,正如这句英语童谣的主人公,许多人正在培养对乳清蛋白的兴趣——如果还没有的话。这种奶酪制作的副产品在减肥药使用者加入运动爱好者及其他人群后,被赋予了新的生命,他们在减少饮食的同时学会了增加蛋白质摄入。

从“熏制甜甜圈”到英国零售商“Warks and Spencer”,各路商家纷纷推出自家产品。Warks and Spencer在多款乳制品和饮品中添加了乳清蛋白。库存极低——据美国农业部数据,截至6月底,美国乳清库存仅为三年前的一半——而价格却一路飙升。在欧洲,乳清蛋白80%浓缩物的价格在今年前六个月内翻了一番以上。

这导致乳清采购商的利润率不断收窄。去财年,英国上市公司55K%营养部门的利润率因此下降了2个百分点以上。但第四季度的价格谈判者或许能稍感安慰——买方的议价能力已略有回升。需求依然强劲;超市货架上新产品的涌现便是明证。

高价在大宗商品市场中总会产生相应效应。制造商已投资扩大生产,但在欧洲这一过程因监管限制更为困难。这也解释了为什么欧盟价格更高,且跨大西洋价差正在扩大。

食品生产商也在寻找替代方案。复制乳制蛋白的口感并非易事,但在某些情况下,鸡蛋或植物蛋白可以部分替代。后者的成本约为乳清蛋白的十分之一(据Vosper数据)。在某些情况下,5也能奏效:例如55K%蛋白质与胶原蛋白的混合制品。

需求不太可能大幅下降。约7%的人口正在使用或曾使用减肥药;这一比例在美国已是其两倍,且在州政府支持的医保计划下可能进一步扩大。增肌旺季才刚刚开始。

乳清蛋白价格上涨 乳清蛋白80%浓缩物价格(每公斤2英镑):

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第18,461期纵横填字谜 No. 18,461 作者:SLORMGORM

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| Food & Beverages | | | | | | | | AEP Plantations / 195.00 / 2.60 / 229.00 / 117.37 / 3.12 / 11.49 / 247.51 Assoc. Bitt Products / 2069.00 / 8.00 / 2539.00 / 1729.45 / 3.04 / 14.61 / 515.09 Ban (AS) / 608.00 / 0.00 / 715.32 / 499.00 / 3.01 / 14.41 / 149.57 Fevera / 139.00 / -8.00 / 150.00 / 114.50 / 1.73 / 6.02 / 39.57 Coca-Cola HBC / 4616.00 / 72.00 / 5195.00 / 3270.00 / 2.22 / 20.84 / 618.87 Cranovix® / 5430.00 / 70.00 / 5810.00 / 4755.00 / 2.07 / 18.35 / 43.52 Diageo® / 1711.00 / 52.00 / 2143.00 / 1295.00 / 2.07 / 30.92 / 481.16 Gazprom / 267.60 / 1.40 / 307.50 / 191.10 / 0.92 / 20.27 / 1122.38 Kerry Group / 7170.05 / 247.50 / 7646.35 / 5567.81 / 1.72 / 20.94 / 8.75 Tate & Lyle / 553.50 / -0.50 / 580.00 / 319.43 / 3.58 / 25.16 / 1356.22 Unilever® / 4782.50 / 101.50 / 5542.11 / 3644.00 / 3.45 / 12.91 / 381.86

DN Store Nord / 1065.79 / -13.12 / 1461.29 / 984.75 / - / 13.71 / 983.46

Smith&Neph / 1082.00 / 12.50 / 1441.50 / 1046.00 / 2.69 / 20.46 / 1945.92 | 房地产、休闲及个人用品 | | | | | | | | Barratt Redrow / 315.20 / 2.80 / 410.29 / 235.40 / 5.43 / 23.18 / 10832.29 Bellway / 214.00 / 30.00 / 2890.00 / 1715.00 / 3.36 / 16.14 / 2298.37 Carnival / 3566.00 / 12.00 / 4442.00 / 2966.00 / - / 10.75 / 1184.60 Berberry Group / 1078.00 / -8.50 / 1376.50 / 976.00 / - / 1893.72 Cairn Homes / 213.50 / -2.00 / 228.00 / 161.00 / 4.01 / 11.71 / 124.08 Cedar Workshop / 18510.00 / 20.00 / 2,0540.40 / 14670.00 / 31.10 / 28.68 / 97.15 Gleeson (MJ) / 272.00 / -2.00 / 435.00 / 221.00 / 4.04 / 10.03 / 53.35 Headlam Group / 8.80 / -0.10 / 76.00 / 4.64 / - / -0.09 / 1433.25 McBride / 186.80 / 3.00 / 170.00 / 108.20 / 1.80 / 8.55 / 121.07 Mitsubishi / 2020.11 / 21.68 / 2413.40 / 1796.30 / 3.68 / 47.29 / 818.92 PZ Cussons / 104.40 / -0.60 / 114.00 / 65.00 / 3.54 / 22.21 / 481.33 Vistry Group / 268.60 / 4.20 / 746.40 / 220.00 / - / 6.36 / 1060.90

Coats Group / 80.65 / 0.65 / 98.10 / 73.15 / 3.03 / 18.61 / 1152.74

Macfarlane / 71.80 / 0.30 / 99.00 / 59.80 / 5.10 / 18.00 / 107.50 Smiths / 2610.00 / 10.00 / 2754.18 / 2088.00 / 1.79 / 30.46 / 1000.07 | 工业运输 | | | | | | | |

| 保险 | | | | | | | | Admiral Group / 4000.00 / 24.00 / 4006.00 / 2624.00 / 3.58 / 16.23 / 545.21 Aviva / 728.00 / 10.80 / 740.60 / 590.60 / 5.52 / 27.06 / 12293.86 Chesnara / 330.00 / 4.00 / 352.00 / 264.58 / 6.82 / —65.35 / 511.00 Ecclesiastical Insurance / 142.25 / -0.50 / 155.00 / 135.00 / 6.06 / - / 30.27 Hansard Global / 54.00 / 3.00 / 57.00 / 43.20 / 8.24 / 41.54 / 5.59 Hiscox+ / 1832.00 / 37.00 / 1904.00 / 1257.18 / 2.11 / 13.82 / 656.53 Lancashire Hldgs+ / 608.50 / - / 700.00 / 549.00 / 2.76 / 6.86 / 275.84 Legal & General+ / 288.20 / 4.20 / 318.10 / 217.20 / 7.60 / 28.85 / 35033.41 Old Mutual / 57.60 / -0.20 / 78.80 / 53.80 / 7.05 / 6.39 / 294.04 Prudential / 1042.50 / 14.50 / 1238.00 / 910.20 / 1.89 / 9.22 / 6258.18 Standard Life / 928.50 / 8.00 / 948.50 / 615.00 / 5.97 / -197.13 / 1179.21

价格 / 日涨跌 / 52周 / 殖利率 / 成交量(千股)

最高 / 最低 BP Marsh / 678.00 / -- / 710.00 / 613.00 / 5.37 / 5.10 / 20.39 Burlap Finland / 315.20 / -1.60 / 1054.00 / 279.80 / 3.00 / 14.82 / 69.36 Premier Group / 39.25 / -- / 67.00 / 34.53 / 7.64 / 50.32 / 73.87 | 食品与饮料 | | | | | | | | Camellia / 5650.00 / -100.00 / 6300.00 / 4800.00 / 4.60 / 5.00 / 0.20 Fevertree Drinks / 856.50 / 3.50 / 973.00 / 711.00 / 2.02 / 45.61 / 153.76 Nichols / 1120.00 / 5.00 / 1275.00 / 860.00 / 3.47 / 19.09 / 106.31 | 房屋、休闲与个人用品 | | | | | | | | Churchill / 395.00 / -5.00 / 460.00 / 271.00 / 5.32 / 9.95 / 10.24 Frontier Dev / 424.00 / -21.00 / 588.56 / 302.00 / -- / 10.00 / 124.08 Portmeiraion / 53.00 / -- / 138.00 / 47.14 / -- / -1.11 / 0.76 Sanderson Design Gr / 78.00 / 1.00 / 80.00 / 40.00 / 1.92 / 26.17 / 32.35 | 工业工程 | | | | | | | | MS Int / 1690.00 / 100.00 / 1800.00 / 1120.00 / 1.54 / 25.07 / 49.49

价格 / 日涨跌 / 52周 / 殖利率 / 市盈率 / 股息市盈率

最高 / 最低 / 殖利率 Fidelity Spec / 474.50 / 3.50 / 477.50 / 372.00 / 2.18 / 470.52 / 0.77 Finsbury G&I / 836.00 / 8.00 / 910.00 / 706.25 / 2.42 / 807.56 / -6.75 Finsale G & Co / 192.20 / -0.40 / 198.90 / 162.72 / 1.64 / 203.10 / -4.54 GRTI (sup) / 1.25 / - / 1.25 / - / 14.40 / -91.32 Hansa / 336.00 / -2.00 / 346.00 / 250.00 / 1.31 / 544.03 / -38.45 Hansa A / 325.00 / -5.00 / 335.00 / 244.00 / 1.35 / 544.03 / -40.65 Hen FarEs / 259.50 / 0.50 / 281.50 / 229.00 / 9.65 / 248.95 / 4.99 Hen High Inc / 209.00 / 3.00 / 214.00 / 173.25 / 5.32 / 217.58 / -5.05

Smir / 974.00 / -2.00 / 998.00 / 800.00 / 2.98 / 1066.29 / -8.41 / < / td>< / tr> Hancock / 2903.00 / -35.00 / 3290.73 / 2285.00 / 1.32 / 3287.34 / -9.45 / < / >< / ><><>HICL Infra / 139.80 / -0.60 / 141.00 / 107.20 / 6.08 / 161.45 / -13.27 / < / >< / ><><>Impax Env / 442.00 / -3.00 / 494.76 / 379.00 / 1.15 / 505.16 / -11.77 / < / >< / ><><>Indiotech / 1105.00 / -15.00 / 1235.00 / 666.00 / 2.83 / 1189.69 / -3.66 / < / >< / ><><>Intl FP / 140.20 / -0.60 / 145.80 / 115.60 / 6.27 / 150.74 / -6.71 / < / >< / ><><>Inv Asia Dragon Tst / 486.00 / -7.00 / 519.00 / 438.35 / 3.95 / 521.61 / -7.90 / < / >< / ><><>Inv Bond Inc / 171.00 / - / 178.50 / 150.11 / 7.16 / 168.34 / 1.56 / < / >< / ><><>JPM Amer IT / 1206.00 / -6.00 / 1256.00 / 1041.00 / 0.95 / 1249.37 / -2.32 / < / >< / ><><>JPM Asia G&I / 570.00 / -12.00 / 652.00 / 397.39 / 5.46 / 585.21 / -3.18 / < / >< / ><><> China G&I / 271.00 / -3.50 / 313.00 / 258.00 / 5.00 / 297.37 / -10.87 / < / >< / ><><> Cleve / 982.00 / 10.00 / 986.00 / 791.74 / 3.72 / 990.12 / -1.24 / < / >< / ><><>&D Core / 80.80 / 0.70 / 86.60 / 68.00 / 1.50 / 310.00 / 181.65 / < / >< / ><><> Emrg EMEA / 245.00 / 1.50 / 310.00 / 181.65 / 0.24 / 70.42 / 240.65 / < / >< / ><><> Emrg / 163.00 / -3.40 / 181.20 / 118.40 / 4.62 / 78.57 / -9.05 / < / >< / ><><> Eur Disc / 630.00 / 2.00 / 666.00 / 548.00 / 2.54 / 684.58 / -8.06 / < / >< / ><><> Eur G&I / 146.40 / 0.20 / 153.00 / 124.50 / 3.72 / 149.39 / -2.21 / < / >< / ><><> Em Mk Div / 206.00 / 1.00 / 221.00 / 148.00 / 2.91 / 224.44 / -8.97 / < / >< / ><><> Em S&I G&I / 614.50 / 1.50 / 641.00 / 478.90 / 4.04 / 633.29 / -0.98 / < / >< / ><><> India Gwth Inc / 866.00 / -10.00 / 1098.00 / 799.00 / 5.12 / 950.44 / -8.23 / < / >< / ><><> Japan / 800.00 / -3.00 / 867.00 / 661.00 / 1.09 / 865.88 / -5.69 / < / >< / ><><> UK Sm / 358.00 / -0.50 / 369.00 / 287.92 / 4.17 / 379.29 / -5.23 / < / >< / ><><> US SmI / 434.50 / -5.50 / 463.00 / 365.00 / 0.74 / 481.54 / -8.71 / < / >< / ><><>Law Deb / 1248.00 / 6.00 / 1290.00 / 977.40 / 2.96 / 1228.90 / 1.67 / < / >< / ><><>New York

Tsinh / 570.00 / 0.00 / 798.00 / 686.00 / 4.91 / 696.89 / -19.88

Lowland / 186.00 / -0.50 / 191.50 / 145.50 / 3.64 / 202.99 / -7.87 Marwyn Val / 138.50 / 0.00 / 137.78 / 6.54 / 251.52 / -44.93 Mercantile / 285.00 / 2.00 / 289.00 / 234.31 / 2.89 / 315.29 / -9.51 Merch. Trst / 684.00 / 6.00 / 687.00 / 536.00 / 4.34 / 716.76 / -5.15 Mid Wynd / 788.00 / 2.00 / 804.00 / 682.00 / 1.06 / 806.99 / -1.69 M&T / 1588.00 / -0.50 / 1664.00 / 1565.00 / 0.96 / 1655.00 / -5.19 Montanaro Eur / 178.00 / 1.50 / 189.00 / 142.00 / 0.87 / 192.90 / -8.86 Murray Inc / 1004.00 / 8.00 / 1036.00 / 854.66 / 4.08 / 1067.35 / -6.41 Murray Intl / 371.00 / 0.50 / 372.50 / 293.00 / 3.45 / 366.67 / 1.01 New Star IT / 140.50 / 0.00 / 148.00 / 108.00 / 2.53 / 198.80 / -29.08 N. Alt Sci Int'l / 430.00 / -2.00 / 434.00 / 328.00 / 1.63 / 634.77 / -32.26 Par, Hertz / 1094.00 / -22.00 / 1292.00 / 857.00 / 0.14 / 1289.74 / -11.10 Pure Assets / 552.00 / 2.00 / 558.00 / 511.00 / 1.01 / 552.00 / -0.91 Polar Health / 451.00 / -4.00 / 460.00 / 336.80 / 0.49 / 448.92 / 2.33 Polar Fin. / 251.00 / -3.00 / 256.00 / 199.16 / 0.00 / 253.08 / -0.87 0.45 / 74.00 / 40.10 / 13.58 / -1.04 Relivax+ / 2652.00 / -40.00 / 8600.00 / 1961.00 / 2.65 / 23.55 Thomotrace / 563.80 / -7.00 / 775.00 / 391.40 / 2.14 / 17.93 STV Group / 111.50 / 4.25 / 130.00 / 95.60 / 0.00 / 10.32 WPP / 399.90 / 13.00 / 412.60 / 218.50 / 7.95 / 3.75 | 0.93 | | | | | | | | | Rio Tinto** / 7666.00 / 18.00 / 9117.00 / 4511.44 / 4.45 / 17.03 / 2421.93 BP●● / 533.70 / -15.80 / 609.40 / 399.35 / 4.62 / — / 24659.15 Capricorn / 343.00 / — / 384.00 / 181.80 / — / 16.70 / 39.41 ExxonMobil Hldgs● / 11937.70 / — / 12115.60 / 11900.00 / 2.53 / — GeoPark● / 714.36 / — / 716.56 / 708.50 / 0.94 / 11.88 / — Hellenic Energy / 1327.91 / — / 1327.91 / 1301.39 / 3.87 / 5.33 / 370.73 Imperial Oil C$ / 9990.99 / -133.97 / 10397.16 / 6229.98 / 1.85 / — / 273.38 | TC Energy | | | | | | | | |

Corp / 4554.03 / — / 4556.68 / 4477.19 / 4.08 / -24.84 / 420.72 / < / tr>< / table>

AstraZeneca / 12110.00 / -130.00 / 15732.00 / 9892.00 / 1.97 / 25.02 / 1791.68 / < / tr><> Chemical Works / 3167.49 / — / 3167.49 / 3037.43 / 4.88 / 16.10 / 0.02 / < / ><> GlaxoSmithKline / 1890.50 / -28.00 / 2282.00 / 1440.29 / 3.70 / 13.40 / 5275.64 / < / ><><>Hikma Pharmaceuticals / 1633.00 / -3.00 / 1865.00 / 1187.00 / 3.86 / 12.23 / 680.94 / < / >< / table>

British Land / 428.80 / — / 451.60 / 318.60 / 5.39 / — / < / ><><>Derwent London / 2078.00 / 26.00 / 2196.00 / 1469.33 / 3.95 / — / < / ><><>Great Portland Est / 348.20 / 0.60 / 377.00 / 270.00 / 2.35 / — / 0.00 / < / ><><>Land Securities / 687.50 / 0.50 / 726.00 / 522.50 / 5.99 / — / < / ><><>LondonMetric Property / 194.00 / 1.00 / 216.20 / 175.30 / 6.47 / — / < / ><><>Primary Health Properties / 96.90 / 0.55 / 109.60 / 87.40 / 7.53 / — / < / ><><>Segro / 961.00 / 3.60 / 997.40 / 603.00 / 3.28 / — / < / ><><>Shaftesbury Capital / 150.10 / -0.80 / 155.10 / 124.10 / 2.86 / 8.03 / 5844.72 / < / ><><>Tritax Big Box / 158.20 / -0.20 / 175.00 / 132.20 / 5.22 / — / < / >< / table>

Price / + / - Dly Dsg / 52 Week High / 52 Week Low / Yld / P / E / Vol 000s

High / Low

| Retailers | Caffyns / 500.00 / 50.00 / 550.00 / 350.00 / 2.00 / -12.29 / 1.21 Dunelm Group / 888.00 / 4.00 / 1248.00 / 707.00 / 7.88 / 11.50 / 141.13 Halfords Group / 233.00 / 0.50 / 250.00 / 123.80 / 3.86 / 15.33 / 368.98 Inchcape / 823.00 / -7.50 / 895.00 / 640.50 / 4.08 / 11.35 / 341.98 JD Sports / 85.50 / 0.96 / 106.18 / 63.98 / 1.40 / 9.91 / 10142.34 Kingfisher / 317.70 / -3.60 / 372.30 / 240.30 / 3.90 / 22.69 / 317.05 Marks & Spencer / 384.70 / 1.80 / 418.33 / 301.10 / 1.09 / 30.29 / 2753.06 Saga / 683.00 / 8.00 / 747.00 / 192.80 / — / 150.61 Sainsbury’s / 335.60 / 2.10 / 380.30 / 292.27 / 4.08 / 19.40 / 5597.87 Tesco / 461.20 / 4.00 / 510.40 / 411.70 / 3.14 / 16.77 / 16546.98 / < / >< / table>

Grainger / 178.00 / -0.60 / 205.00 / 149.44 / 4.72 / 6.50 / 3113.96

Harworth Group / 180.00 / -0.80 / 185.00 / 116.80 / 0.99 / 62.07 / 112.82 Helical / 200.00 / -1.00 / 236.25 / 180.60 / 1.31 / 41.41 / 22.95 Mountview Estates / 8900.00 / 200.00 / 10200.00 / 8350.00 / 5.90 / 17.05 / 0.01 Savills / 1060.00 / 14.00 / 1142.00 / 791.46 / 2.22 / 20.38 / 619.10 Sirius Real Estate / 96.70 / 0.30 / 113.00 / 86.80 / 5.66 / 7.46 / 2187.06 Smart (J) / 115.00 / - / 140.00 / 106.00 / 2.83 / 8.80 / -

Benzel / 2798.00 / 44.00 / 3986.00 / 1981.00 / 2.65 / 19.84 / 380.64

Capita / 290.00 / 9.00 / 416.00 / 215.00 / - / -2.01 / 324.19 DCC Energy / 6365.00 / -5.00 / 6740.00 / 4188.00 / - / 382.02 Diploma / 7200.00 / - / 7765.00 / 4970.00 / 0.88 / 52.21 / 332.80 Essentra / 108.00 / -0.40 / 115.20 / 78.40 / - / 1.94 / -300.30 Experian= / 2963.00 / 14.00 / 3987.00 / 2203.00 / 1.75 / 24.56 / 1292.64 Hays / 72.50 / 0.35 / 74.30 / 26.68 / 0.61 / -19.92 / 4974.02 Howden Joinery / 800.50 / 2.50 / 981.00 / 713.00 / 2.75 / 16.27 / 806.19 Sansk / 5945.00 / - / 6960.00 / 419.42 / 2.42 / 26.80 / 264.42 Johnson Service / 144.70 / 0.40 / 172.10 / 123.80 / 3.32 / 15.56 / 254.90 MITIE Group= / 208.60 / 0.60 / 214.00 / 134.80 / 2.16 / 31.61 / 28025.71 RS Group / 731.00 / -6.50 / 752.50 / 536.90 / 3.13 / 21.13 / 677.98 Vp / 468.00 / -13.00 / 620.00 / 420.00 / 8.44 / -33.91 / 20.74

Price + / - Dly Chg / 52 Week High / 52 Week Low / Yld / P / E / Vol 000s | Media | Mission Group / 21.00 / - / 27.00 / 12.00 / - / -0.99 / 7.79 | Mining | Central Asia Metals / 157.80 / 1.80 / 244.00 / 125.27 / 7.60 / -5.06 / 1232.20 Crim Therapeutics / 11.50 / 0.25 / 18.50 / 8.00 / - / -2.25 / 112.78 | Oil & Gas | BoeShtnPet / 10.90 / 0.20 / 14.00 / 7.60 / - / -92.89 / 1473.18 | Pharmaceuticals & Biotech | Sareum Holdings / 29.00 / 1.00 / 30.00 / 9.50 / - / -12.08 / 242.00 | Retailers | Boohoo Group / 19.60 / -0.20 / 29.50 / 10.30 / - / -2.53 / 2382.01 CVS Group / 1292.00 / -4.00 / 1648.00 / 1062.00 / 0.66 / 17.53 / 154.49

价格 / - / -Chg Dsg / 52周 / 股息(美元)

最高 / 最低 / 收益率 / 净资产值 Polar Tech. / 623.50 / -16.00 / 743.50 / 385.82 / 2 / 697.08 Right & Ins IT / 2460.00 / -10.00 / 2520.00 / 1955.13 / 1.84 / 2891.66 RIT Cap. / 2570.00 / -10.00 / 2945.00 / 1932.00 / 1.75 / 3106.00 Ruffer Inv Jr. / 298.00 / -1.00 / 318.00 / 281.26 / 2.08 / 3093.31 Schid AsiaPlc / 621.00 / -16.00 / 892.00 / 608.00 / 1.58 / 910.07 Schid Asia / Total / 695.00 / -10.00 / 738.00 / 580.70 / 1.65 / 1225.00 Schroder Inc / 376.00 / 2.00 / 378.75 / 311.90 / 3.91 / 3961.91 Schdr. Japan / 377.00 / 1.00 / 401.00 / 276.00 / 3.21 / 4071.13 Schdr Orient. / 449.50 / -2.00 / 463.00 / 303.00 / 2.94 / 462.60 Schdr UK Mid / 772.00 / -1.00 / 782.00 / 652.00 / 2.93 / 820.95 Schdr American / 585.00 / -1.00 / 572.00 / 490.10 / 2.93 / 886.67 Scot Mortgage / 1458.50 / -5.50 / 1563.00 / 1015.74 / 0.31 / 15962.03 Scot Oriental / 270.00 / 2 / 305.00 / 240.00 / 1.26 / 3003.31 Strategic Eq. / 359.50 / -1.50 / 415.00 / 330.00 / 1.18 / 389.52 Strategic Bar / 422.50 / -1.00 / 429.50 / 344.00 / 3.69 / 415.96 Tetragon / 475.47 / -1.60 / 644.66 / 892.94 / 3.52 / 3 TRIG / -76.60 / -0.40 / 80.50 / 63.20 / 9.86 / 100.39 UIL / 196.00 / 3 / 204.00 / 4.08 / 261.27 Ultine EmsMits / 279.00 / 3.00 / 302.00 / 243.00 / 3.47 / 308.02 UW / 722.00 / -1.00 / 865.00 / 607.00 / 2 / 127.00 Worldwide Hlth / 391.00 / -4.00 / 415.00 / 320.00 / 6.61 / 423.92

| 科技 - 软件与服务 |

Computacenter / 5100.00 / 15.00 / 5105.81 / 2234.00 / 1.46 / 34.81 / 94.96 NCC Group / 141.80 / 2.20 / 161.60 / 107.20 / 3.28 / 25.32 / 831.21 The Sage Grp / 1105.00 / 7.00 / 1181.00 / 771.66 / 2.03 / 29.28 / 3237.73 Triad Group* / 410.00 / 2 / 430.00 / 236.00 / 2.20 / 41.33 / 23.21

AEW UK REIT / 106.00 / -0.20 / 113.20 / 95.90 / 7.55 / 106.42 / -1.12

TR Prop / 306.50 / -1.00 / 364.50 / 291.00 / 5.25 / 339.34 / -9.36 | VCTs | | | | | | | | Bmd 2nd VT / 44.60 / — / 54.00 / 39.50 / 8.97 / 46.70 / -2.36 Nthn 2 VCT / 53.00 / — / 56.50 / 47.00 / 5.66 / 55.40 / -4.33 Nthn 3 VCT / 82.00 / — / 86.50 / 79.50 / 5.49 / 86.00 / -4.65 Nthn Venture / 56.00 / — / 59.50 / 53.00 / 5.54 / 58.60 / -4.44

| 传统 - 私募股权 | | | | | | | |

CT PrivEq / 490.00 / -6.00 / 592.00 / 439.84 / 5.76 / 696.94 / -29.11 HGCapital / 420.00 / 1.00 / 514.59 / 318.64 / 1.19 / 530.02 / -21.23 HVPE / 3340.00 / -20.00 / 3500.00 / 2745.00 / — / 4502.00 / -26.14 ICG Ent / 1486.00 / -4.00 / 1611.42 / 1288.31 / 2.83 / 2026.98 / -27.28 Pantheon Int / 387.50 / 0.50 / 409.00 / 322.50 / — / 525.70 / -25.81 Partners PE € / 616.04 / -2.53 / 945.52 / 583.57 / 9.72 / -11.57 / -37.60

| 电信 | | | | | | | | Airtel Africa / 336.00 / 8.80 / 436.20 / 212.08 / 1.55 / 24.63 / 1678.98 BT Group / 205.50 / 1.60 / 242.09 / 173.00 / 4.05 / 18.68 / 8416.87 Telecom Plus / 863.00 / -8.00 / 1914.00 / 638.00 / 5.79 / 8.53 / 168.76 Vodafone / 117.65 / 0.50 / 131.10 / 83.40 / 3.37 / -83.34 / 29341.59 | 烟草 | | | | | | | |

Aberforth GV / 117.50 / — / 120.18 / 109.50 / — / 115.64 / 1.66 | AIM 投资公司 | | | | | | | | Crys Amber / 85.50 / -0.50 / 155.39 / 84.00 / — / 175.59 / -51.02

英美烟草 / 4194.00 / 63.00 / 5326.00 / 3677.00 / 5.84 / 11.95 / 3059.43 帝国品牌+ / 2535.00 / 32.00 / 3632.04 / 2476.00 / 6.58 / 10.10 / 3913.70 | 旅游与休闲 | | | | | | | | easyJet / 673.90 / 2.80 / 683.80 / 332.60 / 1.96 / 10.24 / 3777.49 FirstGroup / 179.00 / -0.40 / 227.80 / 152.10 / 4.02 / 8.36 / 923.80 Fullers 'A' / 742.00 / -10.00 / 776.00 / 550.00 / 2.86 / 18.92 / 33.65 IntConti Hotels+ / 11936.60 / 233.42 / 13305.06 / 8618.00 / 1.17 / 33.15 / 399.91 Intl Cons Air / 432.20 / 9.30 / 492.90 / 332.70 / 1.57 / 7.08 / 5647.48 Whitbread / 2463.00 / 39.00 / 3002.00 / 2098.00 / 3.94 / 19.98 / 926.53

Drax Group / 739.50 / -5.00 / 937.50 / 613.90 / 4.10 / 35.72 / 563.42

National Grid■ / 1169.50 / -1.50 / 1428.50 / 1000.00 / 4.15 / 17.86 / 9769.62 Pennon● / 462.40 / 0.60 / 606.00 / 439.40 / 6.33 / 23.84 / 403.53 Severn Trent / 3122.00 / 8.00 / 3335.00 / 2381.00 / 4.04 / 25.28 / 641.00 SSE● / 2371.00 / -15.00 / 2767.50 / 1597.00 / 2.90 / 22.47 / 1226.48

Price / + / - Dly Chg / 52 Week / Yld / P / E / Vol000s

High / Low | Support Services | | | | | | | | Christie / 152.50 / 1.00 / 165.00 / 90.00 / 2.30 / 30.02 / 22.67 LonSec / 3650.00 / — / 3800.00 / 2100.00 / 2.66 / 18.81 / — NWF / 150.50 / -0.50 / 187.50 / 110.00 / 5.78 / 8.09 / 35.17 Petards / 10.00 / — / 12.50 / 7.00 / — / -14.93 / 9.54 Renew / 952.00 / 1.00 / 978.00 / 772.00 / 2.14 / 15.44 / 186.68

Oxford Metrics / 39.00 / -0.80 / 60.40 / 37.50 / 8.33 / -70.91 / 207.97 Gaming Realms / 29.90 / -0.50 / 52.00 / 29.00 / — / 14.73 / 551.86 Jet2 / 1541.00 / 11.00 / 1676.00 / 980.00 / 1.10 / 7.30 / 370.18

FT股票服务指南

所有数据均为截至前一交易日收盘时的数据。公司分类基于FTSE使用的ICB系统。FTSE 100成分股以粗体显示。除非另有说明,收盘价以便士计价。最高价与最低价基于52周滚动交易期内的盘中交易。市盈率(P / E)基于最新年度报告与账目,并随中期业绩更新。市盈率采用公司摊薄每股收益计算。收盘价基于收盘价及上一财年已支付股息,并随中期业绩更新。收益率以净值显示;英国公司股息已扣除10%税项,非英国公司为税前。最高价、最低价、收益率及市盈率在适当情况下已调整以反映资本变动。交易量为当日累计总额,四舍五入至最接近的1,000股。每股资产净值(NAV)基于收盘价及30天收盘价,依据最新累计公允净资产价值估算与收盘价计算。折价、溢价、总赎回收益率(GRY)及股权清算障碍率(HR)以百分比显示,NAV以便士计价。

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Dodge & Cox全球基金-全球股票基金 Algebris Investments Artemis Fund Managers Ltd (1200) 57 St James's Street, London SW1A 1LD 0800 092 2051

| 公司名称 | |

公司名称 / Guinness Global Investors 基金名称 / Guinness Global Innovators Fund Y GBP Acc ISIN / IE008DX03K83 买入价(13-08-26) / 47.9383 收益率(13-08-26) / 0.00 变动(13-08-26) / 0.13

买入价 要约价 ± 收益率 24m 26m 基金

买入价 要约价 ± 收益率 24m 26m 基金 买入价 要约价 ± 收益率 24m 26m

$\alpha$ lgebris INVESTMENTS

产品名称 / 价格 / Bid / Offer / + / - / Yield 24m / Yield 36m

Algebra Core Italy I EUR / € 250.58 / - / 0.51 / 0.00 / 25.36 / 17.46 Algebra Core Italy R EUR / € 231.35 / - / 0.46 / 0.00 / 24.43 / 16.58 Financial Credit I / € 229.74 / - / 0.09 / 0.00 / 5.87 / 8.44 Financial Credit I GBP / £ 203.49 / - / 0.07 / 0.00 I USD / $ 212.25 / - / 0.09 / 5.86 / 0.00 R / € 193.19 / - / 0.07 / 0.00 / 5.18 / 7.79 Equity B / € 397.32 / - / 2.85 / 0.00 Equity R / € 322.02 / - / 2.30 / 0.00 / 27.05 / 27.76 Equity Fund B GBP / £ 332.01 / - / 2.37 / 0.00 Equity Fund B USD / $ 500.67 / - / 3.61 / 3.90 / 0.00 Income I / € 307.91 / - / 0.89 / 0.00 / 15.85 / 16.99 Income R / € 271.00 / - / 0.78 / 0.00 / 14.61 / 15.94 Income Fund I GBP / £ 226.15 / - / 0.64 / 6.02 / 0.00 Income Fund I USD / $ 258.35 / - / 0.75 / 0.00 Global Opportunities I / € 155.11 / - / 0.04 / 0.00 / 3.40 / 5.65 Global Opportunities R / € 148.78 / - / 0.04 / 0.00 / 2.83 / 5.13 Global Opportunities I GBP / € 154.30 / - / 0.04 / 0.00 Global Opportunities I USD / $ 159.28 / - / 0.05 / 0.00 IG I / € 120.41 / - / 0.01 / 0.00 / 4.12 / 6.59 IG R / € 116.38 / - / 0.01 / 0.00 / 3.61 / 6.06 Strategic Fund R / € 116.06 / - / 0.03 / 0.00 / 2.73 / 0.00 Global Equity Select B / € 154.53 / - / 0.41 / 0.00 / 9.59 / 11.16 Global Equity Select R / € 147.04 / - / 0.38 / 0.00 / 8.19 / 9.73

Artemis Corporate Bond I Acc / 118.71 / - / 0.09 / 0.00 / 5.30 / 6.53

Artemis Global Income I Dis / 241.10 / - / -1.27 / 0.00 / 2.17 / 0.50 High Income I Q Inc / 75.53 / - / 0.11 / 0.23 / 2.46 / 3.10 Income I Inc / 358.88 / - / 3.32 / 5.48 / 12.28 / 12.39 Monthly Dist I Inc / 102.16 / - / -0.27 / 0.00 / 13.88 / 13.75 Short-Dn Strat Bond / 133.93 / - / 0.01 / 0.00 / 6.43 / 7.45 SmartGARP Eur Eq I Acc / 1025.48 / - / 0.37 / 0.00 / 28.61 / 29.71 SmartGARP Global Small Co I / 256.18 / - / 1.86 / 1.95 / 14.63 / 14.52 GlcEnv Eq I / 343.63 / - / -3.56 / 0.00 / 29.89 / 24.98 Glc Eq I / 798.92 / - / 0.16 / 0.00 / 28.65 / 26.65 UK Eq I / 4826.22 / - / 26.97 / 2.41 / 27.86 / 25.26 Strategic Assets I / 108.39 / - / -0.04 / 0.00 / 2.76 / 2.63 Strategic Bond I Q / 126.16 / - / 0.01 / 4.46 / 6.78 / 7.11 UK Select Fund Class I / 1501.64 / - / 16.39 / 0.00 / 10.47 / 21.52 UK Smaller Cos I / 2639.10 / - / 8.22 / 1.81 / 4.84 / 9.43 UK Special Sits I / 1260.64 / - / 8.88 / 0.00 / 14.50 / 16.16 US Extended Alpha I / 576.96 / - / -0.79 / 0.00 / 14.45 / 17.87 US Select I / 573.70 / - / -1.29 / 0.00 / 19.25 / 21.83 US Snirr Cos I / 525.93 / - / 0.48 / 0.00 / 16.57 / 19.26

ASB Capital

www.asbc.com< / td>< / tr><><>ASB SUKUK - ACC< / ><>$ 104.15< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>ASB SUKUK - DIST< / ><>$ 97.58< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.50< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>ASB State Street Global Equity< / ><>$ 125.21< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>ASB Global Technology< / ><>$ 157.12< / ><>-< / ><>0.68< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>ASB MENA Equity< / ><>$ 100.08< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<><>American Dynamic< / ><>$ 9569.53< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>American One< / ><>$ 11230.76< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>10.75< / ><>11.36< / >< / ><><>Bond Global< / ><>€ 1645.86< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.33< / ><>6.28< / >< / ><><>Eurocroissance< / ><>€ 1335.96< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Far East< / ><>$ 1284.73< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Blue Whale Investment Funds ICAV

<>< colspan="7">Blue Whale Investment Funds ICAVwww.bluewhale.co.uk info@bluewhale.co.uk< / ><>(IRE)< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">FCA Recognised-Ireland UCITS< / >< / ><><>Blue Whale Growth USD T< / ><>$< / ><>24.72< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Brown Advisory Funds PLC

<>< colspan="7">FCA Recognised< / >< / ><><>Global Leaders Fund USD C< / ><>$ 33.29< / ><>-< / ><>0.29< / ><>0.00< / ><>8.54< / ><>11.20< / >< / ><><>Global Leaders Sustainable Fund USD C< / ><>$ 19.50< / ><>-< / ><>0.18< / ><>0.00< / ><>7.43< / ><>10.10< / >< / ><><>Global Sustainable Total Return Bond GBP B< / ><>£ 9.46< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Global Sustainable Total Return Bond USD B< / ><>$ 10.89< / ><>-< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>US Equity Growth Fund USD B< / ><>$ 77.53< / ><>-< / ><>0.51< / ><>0.00< / ><>8.05< / ><>10.62< / >< / ><><>US Flexible Equity Fund USD B< / ><>$ 42.77< / ><>-< / ><>0.25< / ><>0.00< / ><>11.45< / ><>15.39< / >< / ><><>US Mid Cap Growth Fund USD C< / ><>$ 25.54< / ><>-< / ><>0.30< / ><>0.00< / ><>9.49< / ><>9.70< / >< / ><><>US Small Cap Blend Fund USD B< / ><>$ 32.10< / ><>-< / ><>0.11< / ><>0.00< / ><>9.90< / ><>11.10< / >< / ><><>US Smaller Companies Fund USD B< / ><>$ 48.17< / ><>-< / ><>0.14< / ><>0.00< / ><>8.95< / ><>7.74< / >< / ><><>US Sustainable Growth Fund USD C< / ><>$ 40.85< / ><>-< / ><>0.25< / ><>0.00< / ><>8.04< / ><>12.03< / >< / ><><>US Sustainable Value Fund USD C Acc< / ><>$ 18.34< / ><>-< / ><>0.16< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

Canaccord WEALTH

Canaccord Wealth International Multi Strategy Funds Limited< / td>< / tr><><>Balanced Strategy< / ><>£< / ><>1.18< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>11.78< / ><>11.30< / >< / ><><>Balanced Strategy A< / ><>£< / ><>1.18< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.84< / ><>8.53< / ><>8.72< / >< / ><><>Cautious Balanced Strategy< / ><>£< / ><>1.47< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.91< / ><>9.28< / ><>9.17< / >< / ><><>Cautious Balanced Strategy A< / ><>£< / ><>1.06< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.84< / ><>6.86< / ><>7.30< / >< / ><><>Growth Strategy< / ><>£< / ><>2.66< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.76< / ><>0.97< / ><>5.38< / >< / ><><>Growth Strategy A< / ><>£< / ><>1.27< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.54< / ><>10.29< / ><>10.89< / >< / ><><>High Growth Strategy< / ><>GBP< / ><>3.91< / ><>-< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.24< / ><>14.58< / ><>14.77< / >< / ><><>High Growth Strategy A< / ><>£< / ><>1.34< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.52< / ><>12.17< / ><>12.16< / >< / ><><>High Income Bond Fund B Monthly< / ><>£< / ><>0.99< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>High Income Bond Fund B Quarterly< / ><>£< / ><>1.00< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>US$ Growth Strategy< / ><>$< / ><>2.58< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.21< / ><>15.67< / ><>15.58< / >< / table>

日常交易。A类初始费用为零,其他类别最高2%。

CANDRIAM 由纽约人寿投资管理公司

Candriam 投资集团< / td><>(卢森堡)< / >< / tr><>< colspan="8">英国金融行为监管局(FCA)认可< / >< / ><><> 另类投资股票市场中性-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>227.78< / ><>-< / ><>0.57< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.91< / ><>3.53< / >< / ><><> 欧元高收益债券-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>1453.98< / ><>-< / ><>-0.11< / ><>0.00< / ><>4.22< / ><>5.90< / >< / ><><> 全球高收益债券-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>290.73< / ><>-< / ><>0.16< / ><>0.00< / ><>3.85< / ><>5.53< / >< / ><><> 全球通胀挂钩债券-I 类< / ><>€< / ><>166.82< / ><>-< / ><>-0.20< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.67< / ><>3.04< / >< / ><><> 全收益债券-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>144.28< / ><>-< / ><>-0.10< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.18< / ><>2.82< / >< / ><><> 分散化期货-I

类< / ><>€< / ><>13811.15< / ><>-< / ><>142.51< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.39< / ><>-2.01< / >< / ><><> 股票指数澳大利亚-C 类 A$< / ><>A$< / ><>2502.50< / ><>-< / ><>26.55< / ><>0.00< / ><>5.34< / ><>6.58< / >< / ><><> 股票指数新兴市场-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>1508.33< / ><>-< / ><>-22.43< / ><>0.00< / ><>25.84< / ><>19.12< / >< / ><><> 生物科技股票-C 类< / ><>$< / ><>1474.59< / ><>-< / ><>12.46< / ><>0.00< / ><>20.58< / ><>20.78< / >< / ><><> 欧洲创新股票-R 类< / ><>€< / ><>283.16< / ><>-< / ><>1.91< / ><>0.00< / ><>4.65< / ><>-1.88< / >< / ><><> 指数套利-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>1531.98< / ><>-< / ><>0.82< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.49< / ><>2.57< / >< / ><><> 多空信用-R 类< / ><>€< / ><>120.51< / ><>-< / ><>-0.03< / ><>0.00< / ><>3.05< / ><>3.87< / >< / ><><> 风险套利-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>2757.16< / ><>-< / ><>0.25< / ><>0.00< / ><>3.15< / ><>4.00< / >< / ><><> 可持续债券新兴市场-I 类分红< / ><>$< / ><>775.20< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>5.37< / ><>2.62< / >< / ><><> 可持续债券欧元企业-R 类< / ><>€< / ><>111.66< / ><>-< / ><>-0.01< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.86< / ><>4.46< / >< / ><><> 可持续全球高收益-I 类< / ><>€< / ><>1265.36< / ><>-< / ><>0.50< / ><>0.00< / ><>3.36< / ><>4.58< / >< / ><><> 经济犯罪股票-R 类< / ><>$< / ><>163.06< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>5.51< / ><>4.56< / >< / ><><> 气候行动股票-I

类< / ><>$< / ><>2162.27< / ><>-< / ><>5.84< / ><>0.00< / ><>12.60< / ><>8.54< / >< / ><><> 可持续新兴市场股票-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>183.76< / ><>-< / ><>-2.43< / ><>0.00< / ><>23.81< / ><>15.60< / >< / ><><> 可持续欧元区股票-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>223.32< / ><>-< / ><>1.51< / ><>0.00< / ><>7.64< / ><>7.33< / >< / ><><> 可持续欧洲中小盘股票-I 类< / ><>€< / ><>2486.21< / ><>-< / ><>26.04< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.65< / ><>0.10< / >< / ><><> 可持续全球股票-C 类< / ><>€< / ><>46.37< / ><>-< / ><>0.24< / ><>0.00< / ><>11.57< / ><>13.40< / >< / ><><>NYUM GF 美国高收益企业债券-R 类< / ><>$< / ><>174.45< / ><>-< / ><>0.09< / ><>0.00< / ><>5.78< / ><>7.02< / >< / table>

| 其他国际基金 |

Candiram Bds Euro Sh. Term Cap / € / 2192.57 / - / -0.07 / 0.00 / 2.32 Candiram Bonds Credit Opportunities / € / 222.08 / - / 0.03 / 0.00 / 2.78 Bonds Emerg Mkt-C-Cap / € / 3108.42 / - / -0.18 / 0.00 / 7.15 Equities L Eurp Opt Olt 4- / € / 259.19 / - / 1.73 / 0.00 / 7.51 Equities L Global Demg R / € / 387.07 / - / 1.68 / 0.00 / 9.71 Equities Onco impt A- / € / 3773.11 / - / 37.44 / 0.00 / 7.62 Equities L Robt&InnTech I / € / 7800.86 / - / 34.56 / 0.00 / 28.48

| FCA 认可基金 |

VT Cantab Balanced A GBP Acc / 140.41 / - / 0.34 / 1.80 / 9.88 / 9.26 VT Cantab Moderate A GBP Acc / 138.80 / - / 0.26 / 2.12 / 9.38 / 8.24 VT Cantab Sustainable Gbl Eq A GBP Acc / 172.65 / - / 1.25 / 1.37 / 10.08 / 9.96

| CG Portfolio Fund PLC | Absolute Return M Inc / £ / 144.28 / - / 0.00 / 2.61 / 3.03 / 2.48 Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP P / £ / 39483.25 / - / -10.14 / 1.95 / 2.93 / 2.33 Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP V / £ / 192.06 / - / -0.05 / 1.94 / 2.94 / 2.33 Dollar Fund Cis D Inc / £ / 151.24 / - / -0.16 / 2.82 / -1.68 / -2.68 Dollar Hedged GBP Inc / £ / 94.48 / - / -0.23 / 2.54 / 0.90 / -0.02 Real Return Cis A Inc / £ / 182.20 / - / -0.19 / 2.55 / -0.94 / -2.42 UK Index-Linked Bond G Inc / £ / 105.03 / - / -0.02 / 2.10 / 0.77 / 0.00

| 其他国际基金 | CAM-GTF VCC / $ 459918.30 / 49918.30 / 0.00 / 0.49 / 3.79 CAM Gri VCC / $ 1440.68 / - / 0.00 / 20.88 / 4.69 RAIC VCC / $ 1.89 / - / 0.00 / 8.97 / -1.66

Chartered Asset Management Pte Ltd

| 国际共同基金 | CP Multi-Strategy Fund / $ / 465.42 / - / 0.23 / 0.00 / 12.21

CP Capital Asset Management Limited

| 国际共同基金 | CP Dual-Purpose Fund / $ 213.06 / - / -0.06 / 0.00 CP Global Alpha Fund / $ 507.35 / - / -0.15 / 0.00 / 11.38 / 12.78 CPS-Master Private Fund / $ 613.16 / - / -0.02 / 0.00 / 11.17 / 12.62

道奇与考克斯®全球基金

新兴市场股票基金 A 美元累计 / $ / 16.29 / - / 0.18 / 0.00 / 27.92 / 25.09 新兴市场股票基金 A 英镑累计 / £ / 16.88 / - / 0.16 / 0.00 / 24.00 / 21.47 新兴市场股票基金 D 英镑分红 / £ / 15.27 / - / 0.14 / 1.69 / 21.45 / 18.96 新兴市场股票基金 A 欧元累计 / € / 16.95 / - / 0.19 / 1.51 / 23.65 / 21.88

欧元累计类 / € / 18.09 / - / -0.01 / 0.00 / 2.75 / 3.74 欧元累计类(H) / € / 12.20 / - / -0.01 / 0.00 / 4.25 / 4.48 欧元分红类 / € / 11.16 / - / 0.00 / -1.88 / -0.93 欧元分红类(H) / € / 7.46 / - / -0.01 / 5.05 / -0.54 / -0.25 英镑分红类 / £ / 11.70 / - / -0.02 / 4.75 / -1.65 / -1.34 英镑分红类(H) / £ / 8.45 / - / 0.00 / 4.70 / 1.36 / 1.32 美元累计类 / $ / 15.24 / - / -0.01 / 0.00 / 6.28 / 6.49 瑞士法郎分红类(H) / Str / 7.62 / - / 0.00 / -2.87 / -2.72

美元累计股份类 / $ / 50.31 / - / 0.39 / 0.00 / 16.53 / 18.09 英镑累计股份类 / £ / 60.64 / - / 0.40 / 0.00 / 12.95 / 14.65 英镑分红股份类 / £ / 38.95 / - / 0.25 / 0.00 / 10.36 / 13.10 欧元累计股份类 / € / 64.70 / - / 0.51 / 0.00 / 12.74 / 12.86 英镑分红股份类(H) / £ / 21.66 / - / 0.17 / 0.00 / 14.42 / 15.70 美元分红类 / $ / 20.57 / - / 0.16 / 0.00 / 14.91 / 16.43 加拿大元累计类 / C$ / 65.37 / - / 0.40 / 0.00 / 16.86 / 18.55

美元累计股份类 / $ / 61.56 / - / 0.42 / 0.00 / 14.28 / 16.64 英镑累计股份类 / £ / 70.17 / - / 0.39 / 0.00 / 10.78 / 13.24 英镑分红股份类 / £ / 40.88 / - / 0.23 / 0.00 / 9.94 / 12.34 欧元累计股份类 / € / 68.35 / - / 0.47 / 0.00 / 7.74 / 11.37 英镑分红股份类(H) / £ / 23.27 / - / 0.16 / 0.00 / 12.89 / 15.15 美元分红类 / $ / 22.55 / - / 0.15 / 0.00 / 13.42 / 15.69

DRAGON CAPITAL

| Dragon Capital www.dragoncapital.com 基金信息:info@dragoncapital.com | | | | | | | | 其他国际基金 | | | | | | | 越南股票(UCITS 基金 A 美元) / $ / 35.94 / - / 0.37 / 0.00 / 6.30 / 0.00

获授权投资基金< / td>< / tr><><>EdenTree全球影响债券< / ><>86.87< / ><>-< / ><>-0.01< / ><>4.17< / ><>-0.45< / >< / ><><>EdenTree绿色影响股票< / ><>134.90< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.90< / ><>8.65< / >< / ><><>EdenTree绿色影响基础设施< / ><>78.48< / ><>-< / ><>-0.08< / ><>6.69< / ><>-2.69< / >< / ><><>EdenTree全球可持续政府债券< / ><>96.90< / ><>-< / ><>-0.04< / ><>3.09< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续欧洲股票A< / ><>497.40< / ><>-< / ><>1.80< / ><>1.85< / ><>13.63< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续欧洲股票B< / ><>502.70< / ><>-< / ><>1.80< / ><>0.00< / ><>13.59< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续全球股票A< / ><>458.00< / ><>-< / ><>0.80< / ><>0.53< / ><>9.91< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续全球股票B< / ><>462.00< / ><>-< / ><>0.80< / ><>0.94< / ><>9.85< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续管理收益A< / ><>141.40< / ><>-< / ><>0.30< / ><>4.01< / ><>5.90< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续管理收益B< / ><>153.30< / ><>-< / ><>0.40< / ><>3.98< / ><>6.39< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续短期债券< / ><>95.88< / ><>-< / ><>0.04< / ><>4.57< / ><>0.44< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续英镑债券A< / ><>85.02< / ><>-< / ><>0.04< / ><>4.97< / ><>-0.41< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续英镑债券B< / ><>98.12< / ><>-< / ><>0.04< / ><>4.97< / ><>0.19< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续英国股票A< / ><>252.70< / ><>-< / ><>1.70< / ><>1.74< / ><>5.87< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续英国股票B< / ><>251.90< / ><>-< / ><>1.60< / ><>2.11< / ><>3.87< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续英国股票机会A< / ><>328.40< / ><>-< / ><>1.60< / ><>1.46< / ><>3.28< / >< / ><><>EdenTree可持续英国股票机会B< / ><>335.20< / ><>-< / ><>1.70< / ><>1.91< / ><>3.21< / >< / table>

管理基金服务

买入价 卖出价 涨跌 收益率 24个月 36个月 基金

Fundsmith Equity Fund

Fundsmith LLP (1200)F 邮政信箱10846,切姆斯福德埃塞克斯郡CM99 2BW 0330 123 1815 www..co.uk,enquiries@.co.uk

授权投资基金< / td>< / tr><><> Equity T Acc< / ><>696.54< / ><>-< / ><>1.79< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.37< / >< / ><><> Equity T Inc< / ><>628.67< / ><>-< / ><>1.62< / ><>0.00< / ><>13.89< / >< / table>

McInroy & Wood Portfolios Limited 伊斯特奥德斯顿,哈丁顿EH41 3SF 01620 825867

<>< colspan="7">Marwyn资产管理有限公司< / ><>(CYM)< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">受监管< / >< / ><><>Marwyn价值投资者< / ><>£< / ><>362.11< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">健力士全球投资者< / >< / ><><>健力士全球股票收益英镑分红< / ><>£< / ><>24.92< / ><>-< / ><>0.26< / ><>2.05< / ><>9.56< / ><>11.16< / >< / ><><>健力士全球创新者英镑累计< / ><>£< / ><>46.98< / ><>-< / ><>0.29< / ><>0.00< / ><>12.01< / ><>15.57< / >< / ><><>健力士全球优质中盘股英镑累计< / ><>£< / ><>15.89< / ><>-< / ><>0.11< / ><>0.00< / ><>12.06< / ><>11.40< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">国际保险< / >< / ><><>假日房产债券系列1< / ><>£< / ><>0.49< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-0.41< / >< / ><><>假日房产债券系列2< / ><>£< / ><>0.66< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.40< / >< / table>

简·汉斯投资公司

授权投资基金< / td>< / tr><><>均衡基金累计份额:< / ><>7012.20< / ><>-< / ><>11.50< / ><>1.75< / ><>4.96< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>均衡基金收益份额< / ><>6620.70< / ><>-< / ><>10.80< / ><>1.78< / ><>3.24< / ><>3.09< / >< / ><><>新兴市场基金累计份额< / ><>2313.00< / ><>-< / ><>1.80< / ><>1.74< / ><>2.12< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>新兴市场基金收益份额< / ><>2084.10< / ><>-< / ><>1.60< / ><>1.76< / ><>0.36< / ><>-1.93< / >< / ><><>收益基金累计份额< / ><>3644.70< / ><>-< / ><>1.80< / ><>2.68< / ><>7.30< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>收益基金收益份额< / ><>3231.00< / ><>-< / ><>1.50< / ><>2.76< / ><>4.15< / ><>3.88< / >< / ><><>小型公司基金累计份额:< / ><>7299.50< / ><>-< / ><>46.60< / ><>1.21< / ><>4.85< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>小型公司基金收益份额< / ><>6862.30< / ><>-< / ><>43.80< / ><>1.22< / ><>3.60< / ><>3.97< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">英国司法部共同投资基金< / ><>(英国)< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">英国房地产及其他单位信托< / >< / ><><>股票指数跟踪基金收益份额< / ><>2684.00< / ><>-< / ><>9.00< / ><>2.00< / ><>11.66< / ><>11.39< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">分配单位< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">授权公司董事-韦斯通管理(英国)有限公司< / >< / ><><>环球总基金PCG A类< / ><>704.54< / ><>-< / ><>5.34< / ><>0.42< / ><>15.07< / ><>18.45< / >< / ><><>环球总基金PCG B类< / ><>693.73< / ><>-< / ><>5.24< / ><>0.00< / ><>14.99< / ><>18.39< / >< / ><><>环球总基金PCG国际< / ><>676.69< / ><>-< / ><>5.10< / ><>0.00< / ><>14.82< / ><>18.21< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">Purisima Investment Fds (CI) Ltd< / ><>(泽西)< / >< / ><><>监管< / ><>< / >< / ><><>PCG B类< / ><>572.79< / ><>-< / ><>-6.57< / ><>0.00< / ><>16.88< / ><>20.87< / >< / ><><>PCG C类< / ><>552.70< / ><>-< / ><>-6.34< / ><>0.00< / ><>16.62< / ><>2.60< / >< / table>

皇家伦敦 芬丘奇街80号,伦敦EC3M 4BY

Purisima Investment Fds (UK)(1200)F 利兹市惠灵顿街中央广场3层,LS1 4DL 订购台及咨询电话:0345 922 0044 授权投资基金

<>< colspan="7">授权投资基金< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦可持续多元化A类收益份额< / ><>284.80< / ><>-< / ><>1.10< / ><>1.54< / ><>4.51< / ><>6.11< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦可持续全球A类收益份额< / ><>505.20< / ><>-< / ><>2.30< / ><>0.76< / ><>10.81< / ><>11.75< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦企业债月度收益< / ><>76.83< / ><>-< / ><>0.06< / ><>4.44< / ><>0.32< / ><>1.29< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦欧洲增长信托< / ><>297.10< / ><>-< / ><>1.40< / ><>1.14< / ><>11.52< / ><>11.34< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦可持续领导者A类收益份额< / ><>1026.00< / ><>-< / ><>9.00< / ><>1.47< / ><>8.68< / ><>8.05< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦英国增长信托< / ><>880.30< / ><>-< / ><>6.80< / ><>1.69< / ><>11.91< / ><>11.43< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦英国增收增长信托< / >< / ><><>皇家伦敦美国增长信托< / ><>649.60< / ><>-< / ><>-0.90< / ><>0.01< / ><>13.90< / ><>17.13< / >< / table>

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Nutshell资产管理有限公司< / td><>(爱尔兰)< / >< / tr><>< colspan="8">Nutshell资产管理有限公司,Ivybridge大厦,1-5 Adam街,伦敦WC2N 6LE www.nutshellam.com< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">获授权投资基金< / >< / ><><>Nutshell Growth基金(英镑)机构创始人< / ><>£< / ><>186.23< / ><>-< / ><>1.88< / ><>0.00< / ><>15.09< / ><>16.62< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">受监管< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent全球股票基金(美元)A类(分红)< / ><>$< / ><>58.47< / ><>-< / ><>0.48< / ><>0.00< / ><>21.34< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent全球收益基金(美元)A类分红< / ><>$< / ><>10.24< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.62< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent低股权基金(美元)D类分红< / ><>$< / ><>16.60< / ><>-< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.00< / ><>11.93< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent中股权基金(美元)A类分红< / ><>$< / ><>19.53< / ><>-< / ><>0.12< / ><>0.00< / ><>14.39< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent房地产股权基金(美元)A类分红< / ><>$< / ><>11.18< / ><>-< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.00< / ><>12.06< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent短期收益基金(美元)A类(分红)< / ><>$< / ><>0.96< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>0.80< / >< / ><><>Oasis Crescent可变基金(美元)A类(分红)< / ><>$< / ><>12.42< / ><>-< / ><>0.08< / ><>0.00< / ><>8.57< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">私人基金管理公司(根西)有限公司< / ><>(根西岛)< / >< / ><>< colspan="8">受监管< / >< / ><><>Monument Growth 11 / 08 / 2026< / ><>£< / ><>612.89< / ><>638.71< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.36< / ><>3.26< / ><>3.09< / >< / table>

Ruffer LLP(1000)F 中央广场三层,惠灵顿街,利兹LS1 4DL 订单台与咨询:0345 601 9610 获授权投资基金

<><>WBS Ruffer总回报C类累计< / ><>596.60< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.79< / ><>4.40< / ><>3.53< / >< / ><><>WS Ruffer总回报C类分红< / ><>348.66< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.82< / ><>3.21< / ><>1.51< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">SICO BSC BHR电话 - +973 1751 5700网站 - www.sicobank.com< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>(巴林)< / >< / ><><>海湾股票基金< / ><>$< / ><>583.47< / ><>-< / ><>-3.93< / ><>0.00< / ><>-3.81< / >< / ><><>Sico海湾股票基金< / ><>$< / ><>198.62< / ><>-< / ><>0.17< / ><>0.00< / ><>10.57< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">SICO Capital KSA电话 - +966 11 521 3835网站 - www.sicocapital.com< / ><>(沙特)< / >< / ><><>SICO Kingdom股票基金< / ><>沙特里亚尔< / ><>10.66< / ><>-< / ><>-0.27< / ><>0.00< / ><>1.39< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>SICO MENA股票基金< / ><>沙特里亚尔< / ><>21.34< / ><>-< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.00< / ><>-1.37< / ><>4.80< / >< / ><><>SICO Capital货币市场基金< / ><>沙特里亚尔< / ><>13.92< / ><>-< / ><>-0.03< / ><>0.00< / ><>-< / >< / table>

买入价 卖出价 涨跌 收益率 24个月 36个月

<><>Stonehage Fleming投资管理有限公司< / ><>(爱尔兰)< / >< / ><><>www.stonehagefleming.com / gbi enquiries@stonehagefleming.com< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>SF Global Best Ideas股票基金B类美元累计< / ><>$< / ><>307.20< / ><>-< / ><>2.01< / ><>0.00< / ><>5.72< / ><>7.41< / >< / ><><>SF Global Best Ideas股票基金D类英镑分红< / ><>£< / ><>342.08< / ><>-< / ><>2.44< / ><>0.00< / ><>2.57< / ><>4.35< / >< / table>

Superfund Asset Management GmbH

Superfund Trend Gold< / td><>$ 2028.42< / ><>-< / ><>82.67< / ><>0.00< / ><>38.52< / ><>31.78< / >< / tr> <><>Superfund Trend Silver< / ><>$ 2239.85< / ><>-< / ><>85.06< / ><>0.00< / ><>59.84< / ><>42.21< / >< / > <><>Superfund Trend< / ><>$ 809.37< / ><>-< / ><>14.39< / ><>0.00< / ><>10.88< / ><>5.76< / >< / > <><>Superfund Bitcoin 0-2x< / ><>€ 83.15< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>-2.33< / ><>10.17< / >< / > <><>Superfund Fund-of-Funds< / ><>$ 157.85< / ><>-< / ><>0.00< / ><>18.23< / ><>17.41< / >< / > < / table>

<><>Superfund Blockchain< / ><>€< / ><>22.48< / ><>-< / ><>1.40< / ><>0.00< / ><>14.24< / ><>28.26< / >< / > <><>Superfund Gold Silver + Mining< / ><>€< / ><>21.69< / ><>-< / ><>0.50< / ><>0.00< / ><>35.69< / ><>-< / >< / > <><>Superfund Quadriga All Seasons< / ><>€< / ><>15.32< / ><>-< / ><>0.11< / ><>0.00< / ><>17.99< / ><>17.52< / >< / > <><>Superfund Inflation< / ><>SFr< / ><>11.67< / ><>-< / ><>0.09< / ><>0.00< / ><>13.91< / ><>4.56< / >< / > < / table>

<><>Troy Asset Management (1200)< / ><>(UK)< / >< / > <><>3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL< / ><>< / >< / > <><>Order Desk and enquiries 0345 608 0950< / ><>< / >< / > <><>Authorised Inv Funds< / ><>< / >< / >

Authorised Corporate Director: Waystone Management (UK) Limited

<>< colspan="7">Trojan Investment Funds< / >< / > <><>Trojan Ethical Global Inc O Acc< / ><>115.04< / ><>-< / ><>1.28< / ><>2.95< / ><>1.32< / ><>3.31< / >< / > <><>Trojan Ethical Global Inc O Inc< / ><>101.31< / ><>-< / ><>1.13< / ><>3.01< / ><>-0.69< / ><>1.05< / >< / > <><>Trojan Ethical O Acc< / ><>159.62< / ><>-< / ><>0.77< / ><>0.67< / ><>6.76< / ><>7.09< / >< / > <><>Trojan Ethical O Inc< / ><>154.10< / ><>-< / ><>0.75< / ><>0.67< / ><>6.67< / ><>6.61< / >< / > <><>Trojan Ethical Income O Acc< / ><>172.11< / ><>-< / ><>1.97< / ><>2.52< / ><>5.81< / ><>8.03< / >< / > <><>Trojan Ethical Income O Inc< / ><>129.50< / ><>-< / ><>1.48< / ><>2.61< / ><>3.02< / ><>5.16< / >< / > <><>Trojan Fund Acc< / ><>467.42< / ><>-< / ><>2.39< / ><>0.80< / ><>6.35< / ><>6.12< / >< / > <><>Trojan Fund Inc< / ><>366.03< / ><>-< / ><>1.87< / ><>0.88< / ><>7.54< / ><>5.01< / >< / > <><>Trojan Global Income O Acc< / ><>178.72< / ><>-< / ><>1.67< / ><>3.25< / ><>4.30< / ><>5.10< / >< / > <><>Trojan Global Income O Inc< / ><>132.67< / ><>-< / ><>1.24< / ><>3.32< / ><>1.05< / ><>1.81< / >< / > <><>Trojan Income O Acc< / ><>406.95< / ><>-< / ><>4.49< / ><>2.73< / ><>4.27< / ><>5.35< / >< / > <><>Trojan Income O Inc< / ><>179.30< / ><>-< / ><>1.98< / ><>2.83< / ><>1.65< / ><>3.53< / >< / >

<>< colspan="7">Trojan Funds (Ireland) Plc< / >< / > <><>Trojan Europe O EUR Acc< / ><>€< / ><>1.0324< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.00< / >< / > <><>Trojan Exclusions X GBP Acc< / ><>£< / ><>1.3351< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.00< / ><>7.74< / >< / > <><>Trojan Global Equity O GBP Acc< / ><>£< / ><>6.1148< / ><>-< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.20< / ><>1.46< / >< / > <><>Trojan (Ireland) O GBP Acc< / ><>£< / ><>1.9800< / ><>-< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.00< / ><>7.06< / >< / >

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妮古拉·贝内代蒂为今年爱丁堡国际艺术节选择的主题是美国独立250周年。有些节目选择比其他节目更忠实地延续这一美国主题——如一部关于阿片类药物危机的世界首演歌剧、一部《天使在美国》的严峻复排——但正是佐拉·霍华德的《Hang Time》以最直接也最微妙的方式实现了这一主题。

在缓慢的开场中,幕布拉开,三名黑人男子悬挂在一架隐形绞架上。他们的双脚悬在空中,头部低垂。这一静止的场景仅伴随着时间流逝的短暂声音:狗吠、鸟鸣、光线变化。随后他们苏醒并开始交谈。

他们的对话是那种填充无聊时间的轻松男性闲聊。卡迈勒·博尔登饰演的斯利姆吹嘘自己睡过的美女,偶尔哼唱几句,还挑逗起脾气暴躁的长者伯德(朱利安·罗泽尔)争论Muddy Waters还是Freddie King是更好的蓝调音乐家。罗泽尔饰演的伯德则以长者的谨慎与智慧提供忠告,而年轻的Blood(布莱斯·弗利)则梦想着逃离他们所在的小镇。

有说笑、玩笑、精心编排的陈年轶事复述,还有许多梦想。暗示他们已相识多年。但一切尽在暗示。他们在哪个小镇?不知道。可能是任何美国社区,任何时代。没有任何解释。没有带他们来到这里的缘由,没有地点或时代,也没有关于这三个男人的更多信息。

而为什么,在闲聊间歇,他们会在绞架上扭动,一次次似乎死去又复活?

偶尔会有一些细节可供把握。Blood已经攒了$1,000准备旅行。他谈到镇上其他人从未离开过。“他们最期待的就是复活节星期天,”他感叹道,“那时他们可以穿上最好的鞋子。‘我不能一辈子都在等待我的一生。’”

很容易被他的梦想所感染。弗利那张坚毅的面孔、他的决心与乐观,都只是一个年轻人的模样。然后你会想起他所处的境地,以及一切已为时太晚。

这正是这部剧作力量的源泉——既来自其惊悚构想与他们闲聊中平凡幽默之间的残酷对比,也来自霍华德在表面闲聊下推动的巨大暗示与潜台词世界。仅仅一个小时内,我们仿佛了解了这些男人作为个体及其代表的某些本质。

在导演方面,霍华德让他们除了头部外保持静止,头部只能左右摇晃,仿佛被绳索束缚。每当有人生气、情绪激动或有任何激动时,就会传来绳索收紧的吱吱声,他的眼睛开始凸出,身体紧绷,脸上充满痛苦。

暗示不言而喻。他们陷入永恒的绞刑状态,或被驯服,就像你可能训练一条狗不再吠叫,这部剧作的隐喻如此可怕地贴近它所代表的事物。

“美好的一天,”Blood说。“安静。”

“世界和平了,”伯德答道。

在这部剧作漫长而无关紧要的段落中,你几乎可以相信它。但这正是它最可怕的地方。所有这些和平、幽默、渴望与同志情谊——直到绳索再次收紧。

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《A Beautiful Obsession》 Prime Video ★★★★☆

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《A Beautiful Obsession》是亚马逊Prime Video推出的新剧集,讲述佩普·瓜迪奥拉执教曼城最后两个赛季的心碎离别、更衣室争吵以及一位明星球员的泪水。

Streaming 平台已斥巨资投入足球俱乐部纪录片,自制或委制了一系列作品,如亚马逊 MGM Studios 的《全或无》系列。Netflix 的《桑德兰,直到我死去》首季于 2018 年上线,树立了大多数后续作品难以企及的标杆。但最新的《城市》系列却并未粉饰这些作品所呈现的精英世界。镜头聚焦于因战绩低迷而心灰意冷的瓜迪奥拉,而此前他刚刚在英超联赛中创纪录地实现四连冠。

执导该片的凯文·麦克唐纳曾凭借《九月一日》斩获奥斯卡,该片聚焦 1972 年慕尼黑惨案中 11 名以色列运动员遇害的真相,其参与令本片的制作水准超越了一般俱乐部颂歌式的叙事。他与曼城工作室(俱乐部内部内容运营团队)及 Banijay 旗下的 Workerbee 公司联合执导这部四集系列片。

麦克唐纳与联合导演约翰·德·考克斯推出的一项创新之举,是在球队首席执行官费兰·索里亚诺与主席哈利敦·穆巴拉克之间加入语音备忘录。这些备忘录增强了影片的震撼力,揭示了球队连败背后的深层裂痕。瓜迪奥拉反复受到批评的形象令队长凯尔·沃克愤怒,并促使其在 2024-25 赛季中途离队。中场球员凯文·德布劳内在谈及“没能获得续约”时泣不成声,称“我们一家正经历艰难时刻”。瓜迪奥拉的顾问曼努埃尔·埃斯蒂亚特则向球员们透露老板正在办理离婚,以便让他们“看到一个真实的人”。

更衣室风波:瓜迪奥拉在场边进行战术部署

瓜迪奥拉头上的自残伤痕曾在 2024 年末那段惨淡赛程中被对手球迷嘲笑,而随着球队锁定欧冠资格,这些伤痕也逐渐愈合。但挫败感却延续至他执教生涯的最后一个赛季。

在 11 月负于勒沃库森后,他在一次非同寻常的独白中向球员们倾诉,提及为俱乐部付出的个人生活代价,并指责球员未能与他同甘共苦。

“我为你们工作。我放弃了生活,离婚了,家人也远离了。而你们回报了什么?”他问道,“当我看到那样的表现,我筋疲力尽、心力交瘁。我想要辞职。”

当球迷渴望俱乐部提供更多内容时,剥去脚本化外衣的压力与日俱增。部分曼城球迷对 Netflix 关于球队“三冠王”赛季的纪录片感到失望,因为赛季中期的失利被粉饰成了“心碎时刻”。

典型体育纪录片的温和叙事在球队赢得两座国内杯赛后回归,但影片并未触及英超联盟仍在调查的俱乐部财务指控。曼城方面否认存在不当行为。

然而,正是在伯恩茅斯一场必须赢下的比赛中场休息时的那番话,让人们清楚意识到瓜迪奥拉的执教生涯已近尾声。“所有故事终有结局,”主教练在准备离任时说道。

该片展现了更多未经粉饰的真实故事,以吸引球迷回归流媒体平台——并让这些故事超越俱乐部粉丝圈,产生更广泛的共鸣。

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FT 深度解读:制造业

数十年来,瑞士出口商一直专注于为其高端产品增值,但美国关税、全球贸易分化加剧以及强势瑞士法郎正在重创瑞士制造业。撰文:梅赛德斯·鲁尔

当美国去年对瑞士征收关税时,纳比尔·弗朗西斯的第一反应是震惊。

“这是一个警钟,”弗朗西斯说,他是Felco公司的首席执行官,该公司以生产高品质园艺工具闻名。“当瑞士受到的待遇与欧盟不同,你就能理解世界正在改变。”

几代人以来,Felco公司一直在讲法语的纳沙泰尔州绿色山丘上的基地生产其标志性的红柄修枝剪。约95%的产品用于出口,这家家族企业的客户包括英国国王查尔斯和美国前第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马。

突然间,Felco面临着向其最大单一市场出口时需缴纳39%的关税,而欧盟同行只需缴纳15%。但弗朗西斯的应对措施并非将生产转移至更廉价的国家,也不是降低Felco剪刀的价格。

相反,公司选择将产品做得更昂贵、更具吸引力,增加了皮革包裹手柄、镀金刀片和激光雕刻个性化等选项。

Felco公司专注品质的策略是瑞士典型做法,瑞士制造业在GDP中占比近19%,是其享誉全球的金融服务业贡献的两倍。红底白十字图案遍布于从Heule精密工具到Caran D'Ache铅笔等产品,既是全球公认的品质保证,也是一种有价值的营销手段。

但随着瑞士法郎升值,主要贸易伙伴转向贸易保护主义和征收关税,这一策略正变得越来越难以实施。“如果回顾瑞士法郎汇率从过去到现在的变化,你会惊叹瑞士企业竟然还能生存下来。”IMD商学院金融学教授阿图罗·布里斯表示。

瑞士今年在IMD全球竞争力排名中从第一位下滑至第三位,经济表现排名则从第13位暴跌至第37位。

瑞士工业协会Swissmem将2025年描述为“失去的一年”,销售停滞不前,科技行业6,600个就业岗位消失。该协会补充称,目前正在进行缓慢但不均衡的复苏。

工业异类

一个拥有900万人口、自然资源匮乏且工资水平为全球最高之一的内陆国家,原本并非制造业成功故事的显而易见起点。

但瑞士做到了。面对高工资和不断升值的货币,瑞士企业通过提高生产率、专业化、精细化和高端化来应对,同时将目光投向全球市场而非狭小的国内市场。

“瑞士制造”成为这一成果的代名词:手表、机械和精密工具品质卓越,全球客户愿意为之额外付费。其结果之一是,瑞士经济中涌现出大量相对较小的企业,它们在特定细分领域占据主导地位。

这些企业涵盖从VAT(一家生产半导体生产用真空阀的制造商)到Burckhardt Compression,再到Rondo等专业公司——其机器将面团加工成世界各地面包店的糕点。

这些隐形冠军的韧性帮助这个阿尔卑斯国家抵御了席卷西欧的去工业化浪潮。瑞士拥有

“瑞士制造”的日益严峻挑战

在经合组织(OECD)38个成员国中,瑞士拥有最高比例的高科技制造业。

这种实力得益于其异常深入的学徒制体系。约三分之二的瑞士年轻人接受职业教育与培训,大部分在企业内部学习,为雇主提供技术熟练的劳动力。

伯尔尼政府在2024年1月进一步推进开放市场的承诺,单方面取消了所有工业品进口关税。政府辩称,更廉价的进口零部件将降低瑞士制造商的成本。

伯尔尼纳公司(Bernina)的工人在上世纪60年代于施泰克博恩生产缝纫机。该公司因瑞士法郎强势及美国市场艰难条件,决定将批量生产转移至泰国。右下:Felco公司生产的一对整枝剪,该公司对特朗普关税的应对是提升产品吸引力——并抬高价格 FT montage / Alamy

但瑞士对自由贸易出口驱动型成功故事的构想,正日益与保护主义抬头的世界格格不入。美国关税正鼓励企业在更接近美国客户的地方制造,而中国长期扶持战略性产业,欧洲则以补贴和偏袒欧盟内部生产的政策予以回应。

法郎始终是瑞士出口商的一大负担。其作为避险货币的地位意味着在不确定时期(金融危机、新冠疫情以及乌克兰和中东冲突)往往会走强——这些因素都令瑞士产品在海外变得更加昂贵。

“如果回顾几年前法郎汇率所处的位置与现在相比——”

上述变化源于一场长期争议,涉及总部位于苏黎世的运动鞋品牌On。该公司曾在亚洲生产的鞋款上印制瑞士十字。

On表示,其在海外制造是因为欧洲缺乏大规模生产的供应链。但该公司辩称,其产品的大部分价值——设计、工程、技术与知识产权——均在瑞士创造,并在著名的白底红十字标识下(如“瑞士工程”)打上标签。今年3月,瑞士联邦知识产权局(IPI)放宽了“瑞士制造”规则的解释,理由同样是法郎强势与美国关税。

“瑞士仍有大量此类企业存在,”瑞士中小企业协会(Swiss SME Association)主任乌尔斯·菲勒(Urs Furrer)表示。

前瑞士国家银行行长托马斯·约尔丹(Thomas Jordan)认为,法郎的实际汇率在近年来“异常稳定”。但他也承认,在汇率急剧上涨后,企业需要付出巨大努力进行调整。

Felco公司的做法与之类似,该公司并不认为瑞士能保住所有制造业。“大规模生产廉价低质商品不是未来方向,”他说道。

瑞士制造的分量有多重?

每一把Felco剪刀仍在瑞士手工组装

在Felco的工厂里,这家位于昔日钟表表盘工厂的车间内,曾经由钟表匠操作的地方如今响起了自动化精密机器的嗡嗡声。

该公司表示,自动化并未直接导致裁员,反而提高了生产率,使公司得以在瑞士保持生产,同时让工人转岗至新岗位。

但伯尼纳(Bernina)这家拥有133年历史的缝纫机制造商,今年将生产从瑞士东部的施泰克博恩转移至泰国工厂。该公司将此归咎于瑞士法郎汇率强劲以及美国市场的艰难环境——美国市场占其销售额近四分之三。

伯尼纳将在施泰克博恩保留300多名员工,同时保留研发、样机制造、测试和质量管理等环节。"伯尼纳的DNA是瑞士的,并将保持瑞士特色,"首席执行官凯·希尔布兰特表示,尽管瑞士本土生产"在经济上已不再合理",其缝纫机也不再能被称为"瑞士制造"。

2017年生效的强化版"瑞士制造"立法规定,对于大多数工业产品,至少60%的制造成本必须在瑞士产生,且必须在瑞士完成关键制造步骤,产品才能获得"瑞士制造"资格。

企业现在可以使用替代性描述——

瑞士的附加值、生产率和就业增长均快于欧盟同行

数据来源:基于未来瑞士(Avenir Suisse)通过欧盟统计局数据的《金融时报》计算

——但"瑞士制造"执法机构(一个旨在打击瑞士标识滥用的公私合营实体)认为此举违反规则,因为这些鞋类产品并非瑞士制造。

"你们为何要使用瑞士商标?"该机构总经理大卫·施泰克勒问道。"你们是想从瑞士声誉的价值中获利。"

瑞士商业报纸《新苏黎世报》周日报道称,On公司曾向瑞士联邦知识产权局(IPI)施压,包括威胁若该局的行动导致其在中国蒙受损失,将提起国家责任诉讼。On公司对此"强烈否认",并表示其往来信函属于寻求法律明确性的正常程序。

自IPI调整规则以来,政治家们已提交动议,寻求再次收紧规则。"瑞士十字绝不能出现在外国制造的产品上——就这样,"中右翼议员达妮埃拉·施奈贝格尔表示。

工业组织也表达了不满。代表1,000家中小企业的瑞士机械协会主席尼古拉·泰塔曼蒂表示,其成员仍强烈依附于"瑞士制造"。

他预期,在瑞士幸存的生产将因机器人和人工智能弥补高成本而变得更加专业化和技术密集。"在瑞士我们有机会,"他说道,前提是企业在技术、质量和速度方面保持卓越。

其他瑞士企业采取了不同的做法。维氏(Victorinox)仍在瑞士生产其著名的瑞士军刀,但其行李箱在瑞士设计并在亚洲制造,使用白十字黑底纹徽章(盾徽风格)取代传统的红底白十字标识。

当亿滋(Mondelez)将托布莱罗巧克力部分生产转移至斯洛伐克时,瑞士制造规则意味着其包装上不再能使用马特洪峰图像及其他瑞士来源标识。但用普通山峰取代著名山峰并更改文字说明后,销量并未受到影响。

由德国拜尔斯道夫拥有的高端护肤品牌La Prairie深化了其瑞士根基,将全球营销团队从纽约迁回,并于2022年完全控制了位于圣加仑的制造其大部分护肤系列产品的公司。

“瑞士特色不仅仅是我们的原产国,它更是我们身份的一部分,”拉普拉(La Prairie)首席执行官埃斯特勒·莱唐(Estelle Létang)表示,“我们的瑞士传统持续塑造着我们的创新方式。”她补充道,尽管价格标签也助力了经济:“其50毫升Skin Caviar Luxe精华霜售价约为650瑞士法郎($810)。”

“生存的事业”

瑞士远非独自面对这些压力,但其产业仍有理由保持信心。瑞士保留了世界上最复杂、最多元的工业基础之一,同时自动化正在降低某些行业中劳动力成本的占比。

剩余的制造业可能变得更加专业化、自动化,并集中在瑞士精密工艺仍能证明其成本合理的领域。

瑞士-mem(瑞士制造业协会)总干事斯特凡·布鲁普巴赫认为,这种路径几乎别无选择。他说道:“瑞士工业过于多元,无法仅选择少数几个行业或企业进行补贴。”

长期以来的共识是:企业接受全球竞争,而政府则提供竞争框架——市场准入、优质教育、稳健的公共财政以及有限的监管。

瑞士制造业联合会的施泰克勒坚称瑞士制造业将挺过最新的动荡。“瑞士工业有种骄傲,无论遇到什么情况,都要在这里坚持下去。”他说道。

即使全球贸易格局分崩离析,伯尔尼近期也完成了与中国升级自由贸易协定的谈判。修订后的协议将允许99.8%的瑞士现有出口产品免关税进入中国,而目前这一比例约为一半。

布鲁普巴赫怀疑其他地区的补贴竞赛能否持续。“我们拭目以待,10年后谁能成功。”他说道,“谁有钱继续补贴?”

对于瑞士制造商而言,他的答案是保持不可或缺:生产客户难以从其他渠道获取的产品和零部件。

“现在,我们仍不可或缺。”他说道,“我们正在从事一项‘生存的事业’。”

对长期债券与日元的干预措施无法长期安抚市场

在承诺数月后仍退出欧洲汇率机制(ERM),英国政府于1992年9月16日将英镑与其他欧盟货币脱钩,史称"黑色星期三"。此举损害了政府信誉,并为做空英镑的投资者(包括时任索罗斯基金管理公司伦敦分部年轻交易员斯科特·贝森特)带来丰厚回报。

如今,美国财政部长却站在了谈判桌的另一端。贝森特无需维持汇率挂钩,而是必须支撑全球最重要的债券市场——在美债面临疲软之际。

贝森特喜欢自诩为美国的"顶级债券推销员"。其隐含的目标是维持债券高价与低利率。但其近期试图控制美债的举措并未触及美国债市动荡的根本原因。正如贝森特从约翰·梅杰政府时期的经历中所知,干预措施仅在决策者在市场眼中拥有信誉时才有效。

近年来,美国持续的财政赤字(由高支出与减税驱动)、高利率(使偿债成本激增)以及传统主权买家(养老基金、保险公司)向追求高收益的热钱转移,共同加剧了美债脆弱性。此外,对AI数据中心的高额资本支出推高了债券供应量,使主权发行人与企业借款者及私人信贷竞争,进一步推升利率。

贝森特的干预旨在缓解长期美债收益率的上行压力。本月支持疲软日元的举措意在减轻日本加息或抛售美债以支撑本币的压力——两者均可能削弱加元并推高美国政府借贷成本。今年早些时候,贝森特曾提议向海湾国家(如阿拉伯联合酋长国,其亦为美债主要持有国)提供互换额度。支持盟国货币与流动性以避免美债抛售仅为权宜之计,无法解决政策信誉与过剩债务问题。

上周,贝森特对美债市场政策进行了不同寻常的调整,宣布财政部将购买两倍于以往的长期债券。贝森特一向批评美债"定期且可预测"的发行策略,指责其过度依赖短期借款。上周干预当日确实提振了长期债券,但规模有限,最终市场反应平淡。有报道称财政部可能动用主要支票账户资金回购债券,但该计划的具体范围仍有待观察。

作为全球最重要债券市场的管理者及世界储备货币的关键参与者,贝森特的干预措施影响着全球经济。然而,新任美联储主席凯文·沃什在沟通立场时表现出的犹豫不决,进一步削弱了其努力成效。

贝森特的行动至今仅是为结构性高赤字与持续通胀所致深层创伤贴上的"创可贴"。唯有通过财政审慎才能从根本上缓解美债收益率的上行压力。贝森特已提出将预算赤字限制在GDP的3%,约为当前赤字的一半。他应敦促特朗普政府与国会实现这一目标。

为何英国政府成本更高却效率更低

斯蒂芬·布什

英国的政府连基本职能都难以有效履行,但税收负担却已创历史新高。原因何在?

在威斯敏斯特,各种理论层出不穷。但一个令人意外的共识是:政府效率低下,是因为在金融危机后,我们有意识地选择让其效率更低——通过大幅削减支出而非提高税收来应对危机成本。

既然如此,为何政府支出占GDP的比重反而比2010年前更高?原因之一在于,关于“GDP占比”的讨论几乎总是只道出了部分真相。你可能只是因为国家增长乏力、所需支出项目成本上涨,或一系列

关于"GDP占比"的论点几乎总是在兜售某种最多只能算是片面真相的东西

全球冲击迫使你承担更多债务。或者,如果你特别倒霉——正如英国自2016年以来的情况——那么你最终可能会因此陷入债务困境。

自金融危机以来,英国经济仅有一次短暂地看起来像是在复苏,而且那还是在自由民主党-保守党联合政府末期。那究竟是虚假反弹还是被英国脱欧扼杀的复苏希望,我们永远无法得知。但如果经济增长停滞,即使你原地踏步,你的支出占GDP的比重也会上升。

"GDP占比"论点还能以其他方式提供虚假安慰。

例如,从"GDP占比"来看,英国在福利上的支出确实并未比2010年更高,福利账单也没有"膨胀"或"失控"。但更重要的是,2010年英国更多的福利支出实际上用于了所谓的中间就业计划——为无法立即上岗的人提供就业经验——以及税收抵免,以补贴最低收入者的收入。如今,更大比例的福利账单流向了退休人员或无业人员。后一群体的规模已扩大,部分原因是其他形式的福利支出(这些支出实际上有助于帮助人们就业)被削减。

英国确实比过去拥有更小的政府。例如,政府在金融危机期间为民众提供的许多服务如今已不复存在。税收抵免远不如从前慷慨,且由于最低工资更高,企业必须承担员工生活成本中更大的份额。在英格兰,我们不再向最贫困的16至18岁青年每周支付£30以让他们留在学校。在英国大部分地区,地方当局提供的青年服务已成为历史。但与左翼许多人所认为的相反,英国确实也对普通民众征税更少。"富人"、或"肩负最重者",或任何你想用的比喻,确实缴纳了更多税款。

我们有一个由富裕阶层资助的政府,其提供的服务主要面向病患、老人和处于急性危机中的人。由于全球各国对病患的支出都在上升,英国面临的成本也越来越高。与大多数其他发达国家不同,英国几乎所有医疗支出都首先通过政府渠道流动。

将这些事实结合起来,我们便能看到英国面临的三种选择。第一种是决定,实际上你可以劝说英国民众接受我们当前的政府供给水平和当前的税负水平。这看起来像是无所作为。

还有另外两种合理的路径——要么在两个截然不同的选项之间做出选择,要么兼而有之。

一种是决定你可以向民众兜售回归一个更强大的政府,而这不仅是富人、非英国税务居民或少数为子女提供私立教育的家庭,所有人都必须为此支付更多。

另一种是决定我们需要借鉴同行的做法,并确定更多医疗和老龄化人口的成本将通过私人支出来承担——无论是通过强制保险、混合模式还是其他完全不同的方式。

最后,你可能会青睐第三种方式:例如医疗共付制,但为刑事司法系统投入更多资金。

问题是,无论你从中选择哪种方案,你都面临着可能不受欢迎的风险,并可能让选民决定他们更喜欢另一种方案。不过,这总比沉迷于幻想——幻想着能轻松摘取果实而避免与公众进行艰难对话,避免就政府如何花钱做出艰难抉择——要好得多。

stephen.bush@ft.com

读者来信

古驰的伸缩舞台:平价与渴望之间的平衡

成本削减是商业的自然准则。但对于古驰这样的奢侈品牌而言,若此举成为外部衡量标准——通过提高平价来体现——则可能损害其稀缺性,而稀缺性正是需求的源泉(《"开源节流":开云集团打破奢侈品行业禁忌》,《金融时报》"Lex"专栏,8月11日)。

消费者购买古驰并非因为它便宜,而是为其稀缺性与

先有鸡还是先有蛋:非洲人口挑战

在其专栏《非洲人口太少了吗?》(《金融时报》"观点",8月11日)中,大卫·平林忽略了近期经济史的教训及撒哈拉以南非洲的具体国情。

在过去60年里,撒哈拉以南非洲国家每年人口增长率达2.5%至3%,却未能建立起人力资本(教育与健康)。此外,非洲经济长期依赖原材料出口,而非真正实现工业化。尽管撒哈拉以南非洲拥有若干大型城市,但大多数城市仍深陷贫民窟困境。最后,移民对非洲人而言并非机遇,正如19世纪欧洲人移民美洲那样。

当今时代,推动发展的不是人口数量,而是人力资本的质量,这才是各国融入全球经济的关键。

没有任何国家能在未完成人口转变(包括生育率显著下降)的情况下发展人力资本。这是撒哈拉以南非洲地区无法实现的前提;品牌稀缺性是地位的象征,根植于身份认同。将成本效率再投资于平价产品或许能扩大消费群体,尤其是在年轻一代中,但可能侵蚀其渴望价值,削弱品牌的潜力与价值。

古驰需要在渴望与平价之间寻求平衡,正如LVMH旗下最成功的品牌蒂芙尼所做的那样。蒂芙尼在高端专属产品与补充性平价产品间取得平衡,成功扩大受众的同时,继续投资于奢侈品牌的核心要素:传承与工艺。

这里有一个几乎被整个科技界忽视的事实

玛格丽特·麦吉尔的来信(《人工智能能助一臂之力,却难以取代某样东西》,7月21日)和奇内·麦克唐纳的客座专栏(《这种复古复兴不仅仅是对过去的怀念》,评论,8月7日)都触及(原文如此)了一个本应显而易见、却被科技界几乎所有人刻意忽视的问题。即:我们的智能是具体化的、进化的、生物性的,且与我们的身体密不可分。

大脑的工作是控制身体在世界中活动;它是最后一个发育的器官。

我们双手的每一平方厘米(以及皮肤的其他部位)都包含约170个触觉感受器或神经末梢,对不同类型的触觉敏感:一记耳光、灼伤、爱抚、拥抱——每一种触觉都会传递到中脑的不同部位,从而引发相应的反应。对危险信号,会快速传递至自主神经系统;对携带意义的触觉,则通过不同的通路更缓慢地传递。

除了双手无限的多功能性外,它还能自我修复、自行调节温度,无需编程即知如何对鸡蛋、网球或一天大的小鸡施加恰当的压力,并能与所握之物在神经上融为一体。

因此,当我们将玻璃杯放在桌上或用刀切苹果时,感受到的是桌子或苹果,而不是手中的玻璃杯或刀柄(不妨一试!)。

最后,也是最紧迫的是,整个人体——包括双手——仅用约25瓦的完全可再生能量就能完成所有动作:这仅是当前原始机器人版本所需能量的极小一部分,哪怕是最简单的仿人机器人。

因此,“复古复兴”并非文化怀旧。

它是数百万年进化的呐喊,在我们为一个自动化——且死气沉沉——的星球彻底压制它之前,必须被倾听。

西奇亚·海曼 剑桥大学“明德鲁科技与民主”顾问委员会成员 伦敦西北区NW1,英国

更正

- 默德纳与美国制药商默克公司(Merck)共同开发了一种实验性皮肤癌治疗方法,而非8月22日《商业周评》专栏中错误所述的德国默克公司(Merck)。

展望

美洲

重温洛克比空难37年后

作者:帕蒂·沃尔德迈尔

1988年12月21日,泛美航空103号班机在苏格兰洛克比上空爆炸,造成270人死亡。如今,美国法院将首次审理一名被指控为肇事者的人。

我曾预订了那趟航班。一切恍如昨日:当时机票还是纸质的,在线预订尚不可能,于是我去伦敦一家廉价机票代理店购买平安夜回底特律的廉价机票。那里有人救了我的命:在最后一刻,旅行社将我从伦敦飞纽约的泛美103号班机改签至同一时间的环球航空航班。我续程从纽约飞底特律的机票未受影响。我记得当时对必须在纽约转机感到极其恼火。

我已故的父亲是名记者,只知道他要在底特律赶上泛美103号班机,以便次日迎接我母亲去世六周年忌日。当他听闻航班起飞后不久即爆炸,便为我写了讣告并送去排版。数小时后他才发现我幸免于难。

其他数十位父母、配偶、朋友和亲人就没这么幸运了。在此后的37年里,他们中的许多人已离世,却未能得知可能在华盛顿联邦法院审判中浮现的关键细节。该案被指控的炸弹制造者的陪审团选定工作本周开始。

这并非首次洛克比审判——却是25年来首次在美国本土进行。在2001年,一个特别设立的苏格兰法庭(在荷兰审理)判定一名利比亚情报官犯有谋杀罪后,利比亚政权在2003年承担了洛克比空难责任。如今,另一名前利比亚情报官阿布·阿吉拉·穆罕默德·马斯乌德·海尔·马里米将在美国陪审团面前受审。这仍是英国史上最致命的恐怖袭击,也是除9·11事件外对美国平民造成伤亡最严重的袭击。

洛克比空难至今仍是公众关注的焦点。BBC与Netflix合拍的《泛美103号班机爆炸案》上月在美国发布后不久即登顶Netflix美国前十。受害者权利倡导者、Netflix剧中重要角色凯瑟琳·图尔曼认为,袭击发生的时间是原因之一:“真正触动人心的是,这是一趟圣诞航班,机上有22个家庭团体,它坠毁在苏格兰的一个小集镇上。”她说,许多遇难者都很年轻,包括35名留学生。

泛美103号班机最终改变了航空公司和政府处理航空安全的方式。保罗·哈德森的16岁女儿在这场悲剧中丧生,现任飞行乘客权益倡导组织"Flyersrights"负责人,他告诉我,洛克比空难促成了更好的炸弹检测、挫败其他阴谋的奖励计划,以及对国家支持的恐怖主义的威慑。

我询问失去丈夫的斯蒂芬妮·伯恩斯坦——她现任"泛美103号班机受害者"美国组织副主席——近四十年后的新一轮起诉能实现什么。毕竟,马斯乌德作为嫌疑人已数十年。她说:“我当然不会指望它能揭示‘真相’,无论那是什么。我将其视为迈向正义的一项重要步骤,让我们能在法律上追究那些应负责者的责任。”伯恩斯坦是名拉比,她告诉我:“对我们所有人而言,这是神圣的使命……我们有义务(向逝者)和他人确保……当人们登机时,不会被炸出天际。”

但法律专家表示,定罪并非板上钉钉之事。据称,马斯·乌德在后革命利比亚羁押期间供认了参与行为。其律师试图让该供词被排除,尽管法官裁定其可被采纳,但陪审团未必会被其说服。

我能理解不想让时间来宽恕责任人的愿望——但37年是否太久?图尔曼表示否:“时间长短并不重要。只要有办法,我们就应当、必须追求正义。”我侥幸逃脱洛克比空难;那些没有如此幸运的人,以及他们日渐老去的家人,理应再有一日上庭。

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伊朗的经济“诺曼底日”即将来临

Scott Bessent

1943年,盟国在德黑兰会议上共同谋划了一场未知行动的进程。

当罗斯福和丘吉尔

当罗斯福和丘吉尔权衡最终将以诺曼底登陆告终的战役时,他们自问:“如何才能对敌人施加最大压力?”

历史将这一问题带回了德黑兰。而此刻,我们必须用美国决心的全部力量来回答它。

唐纳德·特朗普总统及我军强大实力已大幅削弱伊朗的军事能力并弱化其核计划。现在,我们正步入终局阶段。拂晓之际,一场经济“诺曼底日”打响——这是有史以来针对敌对国发动的最强大金融攻势。

47年来,伊斯兰共和国

伊朗一直是世界上的一个恶性力量。在伊朗国内,一个腐败的政权将本可成为世界最强经济体之一的国家推向毁灭,并将其充满活力的人民置于压迫之下。

在其国境之外,伊朗政权维系着一个代理网络,延续其恐怖行径。美国为此付出了尤其惨痛的代价,但我们绝非唯一面对这一祸害的国家。然而,我们常常发现自己在遏制这一祸害的决心上孤立无援。

特朗普总统已将伊朗经济摧残至里亚尔汇率前所未有的疲软,通胀罕见的高企。该政权的最后避难所如今只剩下那些仍相信姑息侵略可换取和平的胆怯国家的自欺欺人。

伊朗的支持者购买并运输其石油。他们通过兑换行和自由贸易区便利其资金流动。他们接纳伊朗航班并代为维护注册记录。他们对海上燃料转运和银行的非法使用视而不见,同时隐瞒其同谋程度。简而言之,这些国家将姑息该政权视为更安全的选择。但他们最好考虑一下支撑它的后果。

17世纪,法国哲学家布莱士·帕斯卡对这种诱惑背后的困境给出了永恒的表达。他深知,不确定性并不能免除个人或国家免受神的审判。实际上,它要求人们对风险进行更严格的评估,并为错误付出更高的代价。

切断与德黑兰最后经济与商业联系的人,将重振自身

帕斯卡的同名赌注如今适用于伊朗的生命线。那些在向德黑兰寻求缓解的同时,继续为其提供所需资源的国家——且已超出美国容忍的极限。

特朗普总统正在做前任们拒绝做的事:终结他们甘愿接受的威胁。几十年来,政治阶层接受了无休止的挑衅循环,而非推进美国利益。不能再让下一代承受那些狂热分子的威胁,他们奉行“打倒美国”的口号,并竭力实现政权的核野心。全面金融孤立不仅能避免美国动武,还能扩大盟友的自由空间。

切断伊朗最后经济与商业联系的人,将重振自身。他们将加深对全球资本的获取,强化市场信心,并获得在世界经济中渴求的地位。

而那些仍与德黑兰绑在一起的国家,则会被永久繁荣之路拒之门外。当信心崩溃,非法金融便会泛滥——这早已是常态。任何将自身作为衰弱政权金融动脉的国家,都应预见到将被一同孤立。成为恐怖主义庇护所,在美方眼中,即沦为全球贱民。

伊斯兰共和国一直靠将敲诈伪装成安全保障苟延残喘。它依赖一种算计:视伊朗报复为必然,而美国的执法为可商量。但在特朗普总统任内,这样的时代已终结。那些惧怕挑战德黑兰的人,也不应低估测试华盛顿的代价。

总统已创造条件,动用一切机构、权力与行动——许多原本被认为永远不会被启用的手段。任何与德黑兰的剩余联系,都将加速相关国家与实体的经济排斥,无论这种联系是有意构建还是故意忽视。倘若——随着政权对权力的把控与经济一同崩溃,伊朗对美军或海湾邻国采取军事行动——请相信:特朗普总统将迅速而果断地回应。

世界应理解,我们的目标是切断支撑暴虐政权的每一条经济命脉,直到德黑兰孤立无援。帕斯卡认为救赎是一种选择。当一股美国决心的浪潮涌来,伊朗的支持者们是否愿用自身未来与之对赌?

作者为美国财政部长

新世界秩序?各自为战

全球事务

Alec Russell

科菲·安南有一句最喜欢用来反驳那些试图为软弱或动荡国家的独裁者辩护的人的挖苦话。

“‘这是约翰尼·沃克在说话……’”他会这样说,回忆起自己在加纳长大时,当有人提出荒谬主张时,他和朋友们过去常用的反应。在他看来,独裁政权“建立在沙滩上”;培育一个国家的唯一途径是通过良好的治理;你只需不断努力。

15年前我在坦桑尼亚巡访时,曾听到已故的联合国秘书长用这句温和的“约翰尼·沃克”反驳回应。那是一个战后冷战希望终结论已然破灭的时代。然而,一股民主的微风仍在吹拂着广大发展中国家。

安南若地下有知,该会多么沮丧。当然,过去十多年来,在俄罗斯等大国以及土耳其、海湾国家、印度等“中等强国”——最近甚至包括印尼——的独裁统治都在抬头。

但如今美国已决定放弃在推广民主方面的努力,暴君们的春天便随之而来。从津巴布韦到缅甸,暴虐的独裁政权似乎更加肆无忌惮,甚至连口头谴责都不再害怕。

至于坦桑尼亚,当局刚刚因一家报纸胆敢报道政府内部可能存在的紧张局势而勒令其停刊。十年前,这样的行为会招致西方捐助国的施压。对那些容不得异己的政客来说,能够肆无忌惮地打压媒体而不受制裁,该是多么自由的事……

有人可能会反驳说这并不新鲜:美国何时成为过道德榜样?毕竟,它一向以自利和虚伪著称——正如历代强权一样。

今年1月,加拿大总理马克·卡尼抨击美国主导的“以规则为基础的国际秩序”是“美好的虚构”,他的批评在全球南方国家尤其受欢迎。那里的许多人早已对西方的虚伪深恶痛绝。最典型的例证:冷战期间的扎伊尔独裁者蒙博托·塞塞·塞科。他是腐败专制的典型,却被多位美国总统视为反苏棋子而备受呵护。

然而,尽管为美国的全球记录辩护显得不合时宜,但那并非全部真相。在1945年后的几十年里,有许多国家的受压迫反对党和新闻机构得到了美国国务院及其机构的支持得以生存。上世纪90年代初,当美国政府资助的《美国之音》记者前往安哥拉——一个正在向世界开放的一党制国家——时,他们被誉为传奇,其广播的影响力由此可见一斑。

在津巴布韦,姆南加古瓦的支持者正在呼吁他继续担任事实上的终身总统。他刚刚将其中10人提拔为参议员。据说,他从特朗普过去随口提到可能寻求第三个任期的建议中获得了鼓舞。于是,一个暴政政权就此扎根。

有人悲观地——且不准确地——将此比作“丛林法则”。然而,当英国帝国主义的记录者吉卜林在为一首诗命名时使用这一短语时,那其实是一种赞美。他赞颂的是狼群如何协同合作;他笔下的“丛林法则”关乎的是社群,而非混乱。“因为狼的力量就是群体的力量,”他写道,“而群体的力量就是狼的力量。”

卡尼在谈及中等强国需要团结以维系多边主义时,隐含地借用了这种“群体”精神作为灵感来源。有时这种合作会成真。多边主义的一种形式——即针对特定议题的临时联盟——正在吸引越来越多的支持者,而“灵活多边主义”这一概念也在逐渐流行。

但整体而言,全球的时代精神是“各人自扫门前雪”——或者说,如你所言,这就是普遍理解的丛林法则。这是一个你可以无情追逐目标的残酷时代。联合国官员悲观地表示,多达10个国家正在为苏丹战争提供燃料,且都自信能逍遥法外。

美国支持撤出的政策的人士称,这是对现实主义久未到来的回归。他们说,世界已经改变。此言不假。但美国不再热衷于传播启蒙理想,代价高昂。

安南若在世,定会知道如何回应那些试图为当下对民主价值漠然视之的辩护者。他会不动声色却坚定地驳斥这种说法,并说:“那不过是约翰尼·沃克在说胡话罢了。”当然,他会是对的。

alec.russell@ft.com

自由主义的批评者们为何都错了

经济学

迈克尔·斯特雷恩

经济自由主义可谓不得人心,这点说得委婉了。在美国,民主党内充满活力的派系是自称“民主社会主义者”的人,他们对自由市场持批评态度。在右翼阵营,副总统JD·万斯认为经济增长被高估,经济学可能是“伪科学”,而两党在经济政策上长达四十年的自由主义共识已然“失败”。

批评者认为自由主义未能带来普遍繁荣——这一攻击可通过统计数据和定量分析进行有力反驳。但他们的批评更进一步,断言自由主义在道德上具有腐蚀性。这种说法同样站不住脚。

首先,经济自由本身具有内在价值。其次,自由企业制度能够抵制美国社会中将个人视为群体成员而非独立个体的倾向。

工作本身具有极高的道德价值。它赋予人生以认同感和目的感,将我们的精力和时间引向富有成效的方向。教皇若望·保禄二世曾指出,在履行圣经“征服并统治大地”的使命时,每个人都“反映了宇宙创造者的行动”。

在市场经济中,工人报酬主要由生产力决定。由于努力得到回报,个人得以对自身成果承担责任并掌控命运。

自由市场促进经济增长,而经济增长又反过来促进重要美德的形成。在增长的经济中,你可以变得更好,而无需他人变得更糟。这种动态培养了宽容、多元主义以及对政治自由和自治的支持。

市场交换需要自愿合作

人并非受市场力量操纵的木偶。我们拥有自主权

整个社会也因此变得更加合作。正如伏尔泰在18世纪对伦敦皇家交易所的赞叹,犹太人、穆斯林和基督徒“共同交易,仿佛他们都信奉同一宗教,且仅将破产者称为异教徒”。

商业交易在公民间营造出一种相互尊重的意识。

百万富翁与店主可能拥有截然不同的净资产,但他们平等对视、握手言和,各自都需要对方的某些东西。

即便如此,反自由主义的批评也不无道理。给某些事物贴上价格标签会改变其本质,将其变成商品。市场社会确实助长了消费主义与物质主义。它可能通过将商业活动置于培养关系、照顾家庭与享受闲暇之上,导致对美好生活的肤浅理解。

它对个人偏好的强调,会令社会在道德上变得苍白——如此多的注意力放在人们想要什么,而如此少的注意力放在人们应当想要什么。经济自由主义将重心放在个人自主权上,可能令一些人忘记我们对他人的责任,疏离家庭与社区,并让人感到孤独。

但以上种种并不构成理由,去像民主社会主义者或部分“特朗普共和党人”所建议的那样,限制经济自由。他们的批评之中存在一个重大缺陷:他们常常让个人逃避责任。

人并非受市场力量操纵的木偶。我们拥有自主权。市场或许会让我在接下一份咨询项目与陪伴家人之间做出选择,但这并不意味着我必须接下项目——选择权在我。

自由主义将自由置于核心地位。但自由并不等同于放纵。让激情——或市场激励——决定你的选择,就是沦为奴隶。相反,自由必须服务于真理、人类繁荣与美好生活的理念。正如若望·保禄二世所言,“自由本身也需要被解放。”自由市场需要有德性的公民,以防止社会分崩离析。

对自由主义者而言,挑战在于如何妥善生活自由。反自由主义者完全本末倒置:市场社会面临的问题,主要并非来自市场——它们来自社会本身。

作者为《金融时报》特约编辑,同时担任美国企业研究所经济政策研究主任

梅洛尼寻求提前选举以掩盖其失败

Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

选举。

上个月,意大利议会下院批准了对该国选举法的大幅改写,这可能预示着提前

如参议院批准,这将是二十年来第四次选举改革。此前三次改革均具有赤裸裸的党派动机并获得党派支持——第一次由中右翼政府通过(2005年),第二次(2015年)和第三次(2017年)由中左翼政府通过。每次改革均产出复杂且奇特的选举制度,同时削弱了政治责任感与对代议制民主的信任。此次由总理乔治娅·梅洛尼领导的右翼联盟推动的改革同样如此。

前两次改革均被宪法法院裁定违宪,原因在于选民对议员选举几乎无发言权(大部分权力被交予政党领导人),且选票转化为席位的方式扭曲(通过授予获胜者大量额外席位——“多数奖励”——来扭曲结果)。基于同样的原因,此次新改革也可能被认定为违宪。

这正是梅洛尼可能寻求提前选举的原因——很可能在2027年初举行——以期规避法院裁决。若法官在选举后宣布改革违宪,法院既不会宣布选举无效,也不会剥夺获胜者的多数奖励。

改革的理由显而易见。如同经历数日风暴后的鱼贩,梅洛尼几乎无货可售。

她提出的选举改革旨在偏袒没有竞争对手的联盟

她于2022年底上任时,将政治资本押在管理意大利缓慢的经济衰退上,而非试图扭转这一局面。为此,她偏袒多个特殊利益群体,包括微型企业和个体经营者,并指定替罪羊——正如其对近期休达移民危机的反应所示。

她的政府削弱了对创新和创造性破坏至关重要的经济机构,这些机构的弱化正是意大利长期停滞的生产率的近因。大规模的税务和违法建筑赦免进一步削弱了法治,而近期的股市改革则削减了对少数股东的保护,这将进一步降低公司治理标准并阻碍企业增长。

中左翼哀叹该国的低工资和普遍不公。但其仍缺乏将意大利转向更公平、更具生产力道路的可信方案。与此同时,公共债务已升至GDP的138.5%,高于2011年的120.8%,当时意大利债券的信心危机曾威胁欧元和欧盟本身的生存。

即便如此,在梅洛尼上台四年后,中下阶层仍不满意。

因此她提出的改革旨在偏袒——如她本人所领导的——在边缘地区没有竞争对手的联盟。这一策略最初因极右翼新党“国家未来”的崛起而岌岌可危,该党激烈抨击梅洛尼政府。但由于双方并无原则分歧,且相互利用对彼此有利,我预计该新党最终将加入她的联盟。

在外交政策上,梅洛尼表现得足够欧洲化和大西洋主义,赢得了柏林和布鲁塞尔的认可,成为可信赖的伙伴。她甚至设法在亲近华盛顿与远离唐纳德·特朗普最极端行为之间维持了可行的平衡。

但这一平衡行为或她的选举改革都无法保证梅洛尼在下次选举中获胜。可以确定的是,这项改革将进一步摧毁意大利的政治机构。

欧洲保守派或许不智地如此热情拥抱梅洛尼;欧洲进步派若其继任者成功上台,或许应对其对手提出更高要求。

作者著有《意大利衰落的政治经济学》和《创新共和国》

Shein的IPO推介应更像Meta而非H&M

从快时尚到“平淡时尚”:Shein在即将于香港进行的公开发行中估值270亿加元,这对一家投资者在2022年曾估值1000亿加元的公司而言是一记重击。

将Shein视为一家因假货问题而备受困扰的超快速服装商家,这一估值或许合理。但若将其视为另一种东西——一个让人上瘾的无限下拉应用,故事就截然不同了。

投资者青睹的两大要素是增长与盈利能力,而Shein在这两方面均呈现下滑趋势。去年收入仅增长8%,而2024年为20%。

净利润率仅为4.9%,几乎是前一年的一半,原因在于美国和欧盟收紧了所谓的“微小价值包裹”规则,使低价值包裹得以规避进口税。

与时尚同行相比,其估值仍显偏高。公司称“在线时尚市场”将以每年约5.5%的速度增长,直至2030年。若其能维持这一增速,并将销售额的2.5%转化为利润(如其在最近一个季度调整一次性因素后所做),则今年利润将达11亿加元。

如此看来,270亿加元的估值约为预期盈利的25倍。Zara母公司Inditex的市盈率为26倍,而H&M为22倍。

两者的盈利增长速度均快于这家总部位于新加坡的公司。难怪昔日的在线奇迹之子已失去光彩。

若这些比较并不恰当呢?毕竟Shein与H&M和Inditex在重要方面存在差异。它缺乏对方的实体店网络,且其由小型供应商组成的网络(小批量生产以测试需求)意味着其可提供几乎无限的商品选择,库存风险极低。

价格足够低廉,在线引擎足够精准,以至于

投资者青睹增长与盈利能力,而Shein在这两方面均呈现下滑趋势

用户能轻松地刷上数小时,并随心购买多件商品。

以游戏为例,该模式依赖于从目不转睛的用户身上榨取应用内购买:Take-Two Interactive的市盈率约为30倍,预计未来5年利润年增长率为50%。

赌博业也试图从类似冲动中获利。美国体育与游戏公司DraftKings正拓展至预测市场,其市盈率约为47倍。

作为“沙发消费”经济的最大受益者之一,分析师预测DraftKings的净利润年复合增长率将超过110%,数据来自Visible Alpha的调研。

最极致的“末日刷机”应用或许是Meta Platforms(Instagram与Facebook的母公司),其广告驱动的收入年增长率接近30%。当然,差异巨大,且Meta的股价因其庞大的AI投资而受压。

但Meta1.4万亿加元的市值,足以证明为消费者提供多巴胺刺激的巨大价值。

若Shein仅将自己定位为一家服装零售商,或许正在错失良机。

中国能否再次出手拯救油市——如果它愿意的话

油价在霍尔木兹海峡危机期间未能如预期般大幅飙升,原因之一便是中国。中国大幅削减原油进口,并动用了大量库存。

然而,当前柴油供应短缺,正在冲击美国和欧洲经济。中国能否再次出手相助?

理论上,中国有能力。柴油短缺的原因在于,将原油炼制为卡车、公交车和火车首选燃料的设施已满负荷运转。许多俄罗斯炼油厂因乌克兰袭击已被迫停产。

不过,中国拥有充足的产能。早在美以对伊朗战争爆发前,中国的炼油厂数量就已超过其国内石油产品需求。

中国削减原油进口和成品油出口,导致许多炼油厂处于半停工状态;据WoodMackenzie估计,目前总产量较去年2月减少230万桶 / 日,约为1300万桶 / 日。

今年以来,精炼产品(尤其是柴油)的价格大幅上涨,远超原油价格涨幅。根据亚洲当前原油与成品油的价差,若恢复230万桶 / 日的产量,中国炼油商每天可获得约$70mn的炼油毛利,按年化计算约为250亿美元。

问题是,中国炼油商无法像美国和欧洲同行那样完全追求利润最大化。中国的进出口量确实在逐步回升,但政府的战略重点似乎仍是补充其枯竭的库存缓冲。

由于北京对炼油商的活动拥有决定性话语权,中国可能会避免任何推高原油价格的举措。这包括从全球市场抽取数百万桶 / 日的原油来生产高利润柴油。根据7月数据,中国每日进口8.4mn桶原油,因此每桶油价上涨$10,将抵消利用闲置炼油产能带来的商业收益。

减肥者对乳清蛋白的需求推高蛋白价格

英语童谣《小姑娘坐在小板凳》中的主人公或许比她的时代更超前。如今,许多人正在重新发现乳清蛋白的价值——尽管凝乳尚未受到同样青睐。这种奶酪制作的副产品如今焕发新生,成为减肥药使用者、运动爱好者以及希望在减重饮食中增加蛋白质摄入的人群的新宠。

从唐恩都乐到英国零售商玛莎百货,众多品牌纷纷推出“蛋白质加强版”产品;星巴克在多款拿铁和饮品中添加了乳清。库存告急——据美国农业部数据,截至6月底,美国乳清库存仅为三年前的一半,价格也随之飙升。在欧洲,80%乳清蛋白浓缩物的价格在今年上半年翻了一番以上。

这令乳清买家叫苦不迭,盈利空间被进一步压缩。去财年,英国上市公司THG旗下营养部门的EBITDA利润率因高价格下降了1.2个百分点。但第四季度的价格谈判或许能让买家稍感宽慰——供需天平已略微向买方倾斜。需求依然强劲,超市货架上新品频出便是明证。

高价在大宗商品市场中向来如此。制造商已投资扩大生产规模,但在监管更严的欧洲,扩张步伐较美国更为艰难。这也解释了欧盟价格为何更高,以及跨大西洋价差为何持续扩大。

食品生产商也在寻找替代方案。复制乳制蛋白的口感并非易事,但在某些情况下,鸡蛋或植物蛋白也能满足需求;据Vesper称,部分植物蛋白的成本仅为乳清的十分之一。在某些情况下,增稠也能助一臂之力:例如THG的蛋白质和胶原蛋白混合物。

需求不太可能大幅下降。GLP-1类减肥药的使用率持续上升——这类药物通过抑制食欲和减少肌肉消耗发挥作用——进一步推高了乳清蛋白的需求。英国约7%的人口正在使用或曾使用减肥药;在美国,这一比例已是英国的两倍,而州级医保覆盖范围的扩大可能进一步推高需求。增肌季节才刚刚开始。

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TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2026

Is the ‘Swiss made’ success story built to last? BIG READ, PAGE 19

UK £3.70; Republic of Ireland €4.10

Iran and its friends face an economic D-Day SCOTT BESSENT, PAGE 21

Missile lock Burnham on Kyiv mission

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Andy Burnham in Kyiv yesterday. In his first overseas trip as prime minister, Burnham pledged to bolster Ukraine's missile technology, authorising the release of classified information on Scalp, the French version of the UK's Storm Shadow long-range missile.

The leaders also signed a technology-sharing partnership, under which the UK will become the first foreign country to gain access to Ukrainian battlefield data used to train AI models to identify and strike Russian targets.

The deals brought an angry response from Moscow, with Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, saying they had been received “extremely negatively”.

"Despite Russia's outrageous threats to my country, we will continue our support for Ukraine," Burnham said. Battlefield data & Sharing pact page 3 Kyiv widens attacks page 4


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Trump pledges to bump Canadian car tariffs to 50% after trade talks collapse

President fumes at neighbour ▶ Ottawa determined to fight back ▶ Auto industry warns of pain

MYLES MCCORMICK — WASHINGTON ILYA GRIDNEFF — TORONTO KANA INAGAKI — LONDON

Donald Trump has said he will increase tariffs on Canadian cars and car parts to 50 per cent, as the trade war between the North American neighbours erupted after the collapse of talks.

In a post on social media yesterday, the US president said automotive products would be hit with higher tariffs from January 1, while existing steel levies would be locked in at the same rate.

“Canada will be treated like a State no longer!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with. They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!”

The move came after negotiations to avert new US tariffs on \$20bn of Canadian goods fell apart over the weekend, reigniting a trade war between the countries after months of respite.

The talks collapsed shortly before a midnight Friday deadline after Canadian officials said the US had demanded restrictions on Ottawa's capacity to make other trade deals, plunging relations between the allies to a new low.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Car-

'On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with'

ney said on Saturday that Washington had “miscalculated” and vowed to match the additional US levies “dollar for dollar”, adding: “You’re at war when you’re attacked, and we got attacked.”

US trade representative Jamieson Greer said yesterday that the US had "sought to accommodate the Canadians" by offering to cut tariffs in half on steel and aluminium and reducing levies on automotives and lumber.

Canada is the second-largest US trading partner after Mexico. It was already subject to 50 per cent tariffs on steel crossing the US border. Ottawa had sought to have these cut to 25 per cent. The US charges tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian automotive imports. For vehicles covered by the USMCA trade pact, the levy applies only to non-US parts.

Since the 2020 trade agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada, the big three carmakers – Ford, GM and Stellantis – as well as international rivals have invested heavily in building integrated supply chains in North America, with components crossing the borders multiple times before vehicles are assembled. Shares in Ford and Stellantis fell about 4 per cent in early New York trading after Trump's announcement. GM's fell more than 2 per cent.

Canadian finance minister François-Philippe Champagne said yesterday that Canada was standing up for its culture and economic sovereignty. “I’m confident about our workers, about our economy, our industry, because the fundamentals are strong,” he said.

Toronto-based trade lawyer Mark

Warner warned that prolonged uncertainty would “freeze” investment in Canada’s motor industry. “Four months of uncertainty will hurt the Canadian auto industry,” he said. “It will stifle investments. Trump knows what he’s doing. The tariffs don’t actually have to come into effect before they have a devastating effect.”

Flavio Volpe, president of Canada's Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, said US carmakers would also suffer. "A threatened US tariff on Canadian auto parts will be paid by US auto assembly," he said. "Without those specific parts, auto assembly throughout the US would halt."

Additional reporting by George Steer in New York Michael Strain page 21

Briefing

▶ British partner's private markets push rattles UBS The Swiss bank has discussed overhauling the management of a \$1bn sustainable finance fund that works with agencies such as the World Bank amid concerns over UK investment partner Record's push into private markets.— PAGE 7

▶ No 10 dilutes homes plan Andy Burnham has allocated an initial £10bn of Labour's £39bn social and affordable homes programme largely to housing associations, compromising on his target for council housing.— PAGE 2

Thames Water shake-up The struggling utility's creditors plan to appoint four new board members if the government allows them to take ownership of the business and as they seek to avoid nationalisation.— PAGE 10

▶ Bidders eye Shell assets The oil major has drawn interest from potential bidders including ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell for its US chemicals assets, as it looks to offload underperforming parts of its operations.— PAGE 8

▶ 'Rates guru' looks at pubs The Treasury is bringing in Jerry Schurder, a veteran business rates expert, to review claims by the pub and hotel sector that they are being unfairly taxed, in the latest move to help town centres. — PAGE 2

▶ Nuclear fleet on horizon Washington is teaming up with UK group Core Power to help it build a fleet of nuclear-powered merchant vessels to challenge China's shipbuilding dominance. — PAGE 4; ENI'S FUSION BET, PAGE 9

Shein lowers expectations The fast-fashion retailer is seeking a \$27bn valuation in a Hong Kong listing next week, almost three-quarters below its peak, after previous attempts to list foundered.—PAGE 7; LEX, PAGE 22

KPMG cuts after scandal The Big Four firm's Australian operation will cull hundreds of workers and reduce partner pay by 13 per cent, saying growth is likely to remain "subdued" in the wake of an audit scandal.— PAGE 8

Singapore offers sweetener of \$55,000 per child to reverse plunging birth rate

Africa looks to space for solutions on the ground

Satellite imagery that can save lives once had to be bought at vast expense from the western groups that cornered the market. But much of the kit needed is ever more affordable, and African countries are now betting on their own satellites to collect data on everything from weather and wars to crops and cattle. Twenty nations have craft in orbit and will spend \$800mn this year on space projects. 'They want sovereign access to data,' says one analyst. Space race ▶ PAGE 6

OWEN WALKER — SINGAPORE

Singapore has unveiled a package of measures to encourage people to have more children, offering more than \$55,000 per child as it battles a falling birth rate that has made it one of the fastest-ageing countries in the world.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced an overhaul of child payment and parental leave in his annual National Day Rally speech, saying the government aimed to “make it easier for Singaporeans who want children to start and raise a family”.

The city-state, with a population of just over 6mn, registered a record-low fertility rate of 0.87 children per woman last year, down from 0.97 in 2024 and nearing South Korea's world-lowest rate of 0.8. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to maintain a stable population, in the absence of net immigration.

In the absence of net immigration, the falling birth rate – along with extended lifespans – has put Singapore on course to become a “super-aged” society this year, defined by the UN as a country where more than 21 per cent of the population is aged 65 or older. By 2030, one in four Singaporeans is expected to meet that threshold.

"We want every family to know: if you choose to have children, the government will stand with you," Wong said. "We will provide more support and over more years."

Wong said there would be almost S\$70,000 (\$55,150) in direct financial support to families for each child, up to the age of 17. That includes a S\$10,000 gift at birth and a S\$10,000 payment to support their further education.

The measures build on handouts already provided to families. The new structure raises payments and spreads them over a child's early years rather than focusing on birth.

But Wong warned there was only so much the government could do to encourage families to have more children. Many young people are delaying parenthood in pursuit of financial security or deciding against having children altogether. “Despite all that we do to support families, we have to be realistic – our total fertility rate is still likely to fall far short of replacement,” he said.

Wong said the state would maintain its policy of supplementing domestic population growth through immigration. But that stance has not always been popular among Singaporean citizens, who often associate rising immigration with increased property prices and more competition for jobs. Letters page 20


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Burnham softens council home plans

Cash allocated mainly to housing associations, not local authorities

CHRIS SMYTH, DAVID SHEPPARD AND JENNIFER WILLIAMS

Andy Burnham has watered down his most ambitious plans on council house building as he seeks to kick-start the government's existing affordable homes programme.

The prime minister has allocated an initial £10bn of Labour's £39bn social and affordable homes programme largely to housing associations, with about 60 per cent earmarked for social rent, three months after saying the scheme should be "dedicated to council homes". It raises questions about how he will fulfil promises of "the biggest council house building programme since the postwar period".

Burnham has made greater public control over housing a foundation of his political argument.

Sharp ideological battle lines were drawn over the issue yesterday as Nigel Farage's rightwing Reform UK sought to link property shortages to immigration and said it would prioritise “British-born” families for social homes.

Subsidised housing in England is built by a range of bodies including not-for-profit housing associations, offering social rent, at about 50 per cent of market value, affordable rent, at about 80 per cent of market rates, and shared ownership schemes.

However, Burnham has repeatedly said he wanted local authorities to take over this role, stressing that “control matters”. At the launch of his campaign to be MP for Makerfield he said the

Nigel Farage's rightwing Reform UK said it would prioritise 'British-born' families for social homes

£39bn fund "should be dedicated to council homes. Let's not be coy anymore."

Yesterday the government set out plans to allocate £10bn to 33 organisations, mainly housing associations but including some councils, in a similar allocation to that being finalised under Burnham's predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer.

As under Starmer's plan, about 60 per cent of the 70,000 homes due to be built are earmarked for social rent.

Technical changes have been introduced that will make it easier for councils to bid for money from the programme. Officials said future stages of the programme will be tilted more towards councils.

But after taking account of funding for London, allocated separately, the government has just £16bn left to commit, making a radical scale-up of council homes hard without new funding.

Last year councils built 10,500 homes, with half of local authorities building none at all. In the 1950s councils averaged about 190,000 a year and in the 1970s the average was about 130,000.

People familiar with ministers' thinking said the bids for the money had been finalised before Burnham took over and ripping up the process would have caused unacceptable delays at a time when 180,000 children are living in temporary accommodation.

Kate Henderson, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, called the decision “a major vote of confidence in not-for-profit housing associations and in the vital and distinct role they play”.

Meanwhile, Reform set out a housing policy that would favour working people born in the UK over people born elsewhere who have become British citizens.

Tax regulations. Art market

Money laundering rules snare toy soldier sellers

Laws designed to stop crooks cleaning large sums of cash are also catching small businesses

JOSH SPERO — WEALTH EDITOR

In a shop on a smart arcade in central London, ranks of toy soldiers fire at each other and the miniature cavalry charge, while three bronze busts of Sir Winston Churchill resolutely stare on.

These are standard wares for The Armoury of St James's, which sells military antiques such as portraits, silverware and sculptures, as well as regimental brooches, alongside the toy soldiers.

But last year The Armoury met a foe it could not defeat: the British tax authority, its weapon anti-money laundering regulations. Bathgate Ltd, the company behind The Armoury, was fined £5,000 following an audit because it had registered the wrong employee as its person responsible for the regulations.

"We had always been willing to engage with [HM Revenue & Customs] but they came round and tried to catch us out, which they did," said manager James Rawlins. "We did our best but our best was not good enough."

The anti-money laundering (AML) rules relating to the art trade, designed to prevent criminals laundering millions of pounds through masterpieces sold by auction houses and galleries, have also been catching small businesses, including the designers of yacht interiors, publishers of artists' books and Bathgate.

Those who have been fined told the FT the rules were too complex for small businesses to fully grasp and had not been promoted clearly enough.

They accused HMRC of auditing companies with limited resources – “low-hanging fruit”, according to one of Rawlins’ colleagues. There is no official regulatory body for the art market that could provide a blanket dissemination of rules.

HMRC said recent changes, such as refining due diligence requirements, had “made the regulations clearer and easier to comply with” and it provided “extensive guidance and tools to support businesses”, such as a film about money laundering in the art market. The agency said it took “a targeted, evi-

Under fire: The Armoury of St James's in central London specialises in military antiques, below Charlie Bibby/FT

dence-based approach to compliance".

Art galleries, art advisers, auction houses, interior designers and intermediaries have to register with HMRC as art market participants (AMPs) if they buy or sell a work of art worth £10,000 or more in a single or a series of linked transactions. Bathgate said it had handled three such transactions in five years.

Among AMPs, the most common breach of the rules was a business not registering by HMRC's deadline, but other breaches included failing to tell HMRC about material changes, to keep appropriate records and to train staff to make proper checks.

DYS44 Art Gallery in London was fined nearly £160,000 for multiple breaches, but half of all fines have been between £1,250 and £3,500. All of the companies in breach are named on a government website.

Cesare Lampronti of DYS44 Art Gallery, which is now in liquidation, said: "The fine that my company received is linked purely to lacks in our former procedures, which we have since corrected, and not to engaging with criminals or money launderers."

Rena Neville, director of Corinth Consulting, which specialises in advising the art trade on AML, said businesses that did not think of themselves as AMPs needed to be particularly careful, for example interior designers, who “are

'I think [HMRC is] looking at the wrong part of the art market if they are coming to people like me'

often helping clients buy works of art for homes that they have designed". Neville added that it was important for AMPs to ask "who they are dealing with and where the money is coming from . . . given the current world of sanctions and wars". But she said there needed to be "more flexibility" and a "proportionate risk-based response" from HMRC.

Katherine Elworthy, chief operating officer of the British Institute of Interior Design, said it had published stories and social media posts and run a webinar to give its members “practical guidance” about the AML rules.

But because the field consisted mostly of micro, small and medium-sized businesses already grappling with other new rules relating to fire safety and building safety, "it is a real challenge to keep on top of everything", she said.

Elworthy said both HMRC and her organisation “could be doing more to promote the rules to the profession” and that the institute was planning a campaign for later this year to highlight “the risks designers can be exposed to if they do not take the proper steps to comply”.

Gertrude Art Technologies, an online art sales platform, was fined £1,650 for not registering in time. Will Jarvis, who was chief executive until July, said he had taken over Gertrude during a time of crisis and by the time he had dealt with the most urgent issues, it was too late to register.

He said he had a four-hour audit from HMRC, which was “very jarring” given the small size of the company. The fine had made it “tempting almost to reduce the listings so there are not any [above £10,000], which push us over into that box of eligibility . . . Absolutely it is a disincentive”. he said.

"I think [HMRC is] looking at the wrong part of the art market if they are coming to people like me," Jarvis added.

Neville, of Corinth Consultancy, said the complexity of the regulations was causing some AMPs to alter or wind down their business: “Quite a few elderly art adviser/dealers [have] said, ‘It is too much, we are giving up.’ Some said they will stop selling paintings, they will sell other objects.”

Back at The Armoury, Rawlins and colleagues bustle around their office above the shop, while downstairs the ranks of toy soldiers, taking aim at their enemies, live to fight another day.

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'Rates guru' to review levy for pubs and hotels sector

GEORGE PARKER AND STEPHANIE STACEY

The Treasury is bringing in a “business rates guru” to review claims by the pub and hotels sector that they are being unfairly taxed, in the latest move by Andy Burnham’s government to prop up town centres.

James Murray, Treasury minister, yesterday said Jerry Schurder, a veteran business rates expert, would ensure that the future system would be “fairer for high street businesses”.

A consultation into business rates has been welcomed by pubs and hotels, which had complained they had been hit hard by a post-Covid-19 business rate revaluation.

Burnham has made reviving town centres a priority of his new premiership and has set out a 20 per cent cut to business rates bills for pubs, social clubs and music venues from next April.

Schurder, formerly head of business rates at commercial real estate advisory firm Gerald Eve, now part of Newmark, will consider valuations for business rates for pubs and hotels ahead of the next revaluation in 2029.

The hospitality sector registered significant increases in rateable values at the 2026 revaluation, largely down to the ending of pandemic-era valuations, with claims that it did not reflect the realities of running such businesses.

'Today we are going further with a rethink of valuations – so that we can build a fairer system'

The Treasury said the new review would look at improving fairness for businesses and ensuring the system was “fair and transparent” so that pubs and hotels could plan better for the future.

Schurder will lead the independent review and report back to the Treasury by the end of March. Landlords, brewers, hoteliers and other business owners will be asked for their views.

Murray said: "Pubs and hotels are vital for communities and bringing growth to every postcode.

“Last month, we announced tax cuts for pubs to give them the breathing room they need. Today we are going further with a rethink of valuations – so that we can build a fairer system for the future.”

This year, former chancellor Rachel Reeves approved a cut of 15 per cent on pubs and live music venues' business rates bills, brought in from April, followed by a two-year real-terms freeze.

But hoteliers hit out at the measures, arguing their businesses were facing similar or worse cost pressures.

Data released last week by management consultancy BTG showed the number of hotels and other accommodation businesses facing “critical” financial distress climbed 26.6 per cent year on year in the second quarter.

Allen Simpson, chief executive of industry group UKHospitality, said: "Business rates remain a significant burden for hospitality businesses and the system needs to better reflect the trading realities for the sector."

Sir Mel Stride, Conservative shadow chancellor, said: "2029 is far too late for a sector this Labour government has already done its best to kill off."

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EU summit strategy

Starmer considered entry for 100,000 young Europeans

GEORGE PARKER — LONDON IAN JOHNSTON AND ANDY BOUNDS BRUSSELS

Sir Keir Starmer was looking at giving EU students “home fees” access to British universities and allowing up to 100,000 young Europeans into the UK each year as part of an ambitious economic plan taking shape in the dying days of his premiership.

Britain's secret negotiating strategy for an EU summit – revealed to the FT by officials involved in drawing it up – was intended to unlock a deal to ensure UK companies were not hit by a new Brussels Made in Europe policy or new steel tariffs.

Andy Burnham, the new prime minister, is looking afresh at the prospective deal between the two sides at a Brussels summit now scheduled for the autumn.

The revelation of Starmer's negotiating plan – confirmed by three UK officials preparing for the postponed July 22 summit – will be seen as a benchmark by pro-European Labour MPs to assess the ambition of Burnham's EU policy.

Downing Street said yesterday that Burnham had told António Costa, European Council president, during a visit to Kyiv that “the UK had to be bolder in terms of getting closer to the bloc”.

Details of a proposed youth experience scheme remain by far the biggest stumbling block at the summit and Labour officials stressed that ministers were “taking stock” of where negotiations got to under Starmer.

"To be clear this is not current government policy," said one.

As time ran out on Starmer's premiership, London mooted with Brussels a cap on young EU citizens coming to Britain under the time-limited and reciprocal visa scheme at about 50,000. But privately, UK officials said that number could have risen to 100,000 in exchange for summit concessions from Brussels.

Burnham is sensitive to accusations of being soft on migration and has said that every policy of his new administration must meet the “Makerfield test” – that is, to be acceptable to voters in his largely white, working-class constituency in the north of England.

Crucially, the UK side under Starmer was also prepared to agree at a later stage to EU demands that European students be able to study at UK universities for the same fees as home students rather than at international rates that can be as high as £30,000 a year.

British officials argue that “home fees” were not on the table in May 2025 at the first EU-UK summit under Starmer’s premiership, and are a “new” demand that should be accompanied by a new offer from Brussels.

One official said: "This was a new

Sir Keir Starmer's negotiating plan will be seen as a benchmark by pro-European Labour MPs

demand from the EU and so it would not have been part of the first package. But we would have been prepared to look at it in a future package, in exchange for something big on the economic side, such as being inside Made in Europe."

Brussels is proposing to limit public contracts and subsidies for new technologies, such as electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, to manufacturers based in Europe and some trade partners under Made in Europe rules.

While the UK would have some access to the scheme under the proposal, cars for corporate fleets and small EVs would have to be assembled inside the bloc to be eligible for public procurement and subsidies. Corporate fleets make up 60 per cent of new car sales in Europe.

The proposal has sparked an outcry from Britain's car industry. Meanwhile, a steel “safeguard” measure that drastically cut tariff-free imports of steel to the EU on July 1 is also endangering British steel production.

Rachel Reeves, then chancellor, insisted in Cabinet this year that any EU deal ensured that Britain was fully included in new Brussels initiatives and did not suffer any new tariffs.

One official said the cost of any extra state subsidies to UK universities would have been “massively outweighed” by the wider economic advantages of such a deal. “It would have been a footnote.”

One European official said a proposed second round of negotiations in which the UK would gain access to the Made in Europe scheme in return for home fees for European students was unlikely.

The UK government declined to comment on “ongoing negotiations”.

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Andy Burnham, centre, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a cemetery outside Kyiv yesterday — Henry Nicholls/PA

UK gains access to Ukraine battlefield data

British groups first to be given large volumes of combat imagery that can be used to train AI models

CHARLES CLOVER AND GEORGE PARKER — LONDON

FABRICE DEPREZ — KYIV

Britain will become the first foreign country to gain access to a vast trove of Ukrainian battlefield data used to train AI models to identify and strike Russian targets under a broad technology-sharing partnership.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the AI partnership yesterday in Kyiv, opening Ukraine's Avengers Labs data platform to British researchers and technology companies.

The database draws on millions of observations collected by thousands of cameras and sensors deployed across Ukrainian battlefields.

Burnham, speaking on the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, shrugged off recent warnings from Moscow and said: "Despite Russia's outrageous threats to my country, we will continue our support for Ukraine."

Ukraine's defence ministry said Avengers Labs processed more than 100,000 drone video streams a month and detected about 70 per cent of enemy targets appearing in the imagery. Earlier versions were reportedly identifying about 12,000 pieces of enemy equipment per week.

The data comes from what Ukraine's refers to as its Universal Military Dataset: a huge collection of real combat imagery, mostly from drones and acoustic sensors, which has been organised and manually labelled.

It is used to train machine-learning models that can recognise and classify battlefield targets such as tanks, drones and artillery pieces, part of Ukraine's rapid development of increasingly autonomous weapons during more than four years of war.

“High-quality, labelled battlefield data is one of the biggest constraints on developing reliable AI for autonomous systems,” said Misha Nestor, chief product officer for Swarmer, the Ukrainian drone software company.

Until now, this data has only been shared with domestic companies, giving Ukrainian drone makers a competitive

Scalp missile Burnham vows to share weapons technology

Andy Burnham has condemned Russia's "outrageous threats" to the UK as he visited Ukraine yesterday, pledging to support the country with missile technology.

The trip to Kyiv saw the new prime minister start to sketch out a fledgling foreign policy.

Burnham announced that defence group MBDA would be allowed to release classified information on UK components for the Scalp long-range missile, as Kyiv and Paris look to establish local production lines in Ukraine.

The missile is the French-produced version of the UK's Storm Shadow, with both using shared French and British technology.

Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, said the decision to share Scalp technology with Kyiv had been received "extremely negatively" by Moscow.

The UK "methodically and regularly adds fuel to the fire and hatches schemes to prevent even the slightest progress in the peaceful settlement process", Peskov said, according to the Interfax state news agency.

Last week, Moscow warned Britain of unspecified “consequences” over the use by Ukraine of British-made drones in attacks on Russian targets, and Burnham's visit is likely to inflame

tensions further. Downing Street said Britain's support for Ukraine was "longstanding" and that the UK would continue to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Kyiv against what it called Russia's "barbaric actions".

Burnham, former mayor of Greater Manchester, has stressed in his first few weeks his commitment to tackling the issues facing the daily lives of voters and has said little about foreign policy or his approach to EU relations.

The focus on issues such as the cost of living and the state of shops and pubs is resonating with voters, according to polls. By contrast, predecessor Sir Keir Starmer was sometimes criticised for spending too much time on foreign policy. George Parker and Polina Ivanova

edge over foreign rivals, whose computer vision models were often trained using synthetic data.

Britain's military is understood to be particularly interested in data gathered by acoustic sensors placed throughout Ukraine and used to identify incoming Russian drones.

Kyiv first announced it would allow international partners access in March, offering “the opportunity to train their AI models on real data from modern warfare”, according to Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defence minister at the time.

The agreement is part of a wider technology swap intended to marry Ukraine's battlefield experience and wartime data sets with Britain's universities, AI researchers and technology companies.

Burnham said that the deal "will bring together Ukraine's unrivalled

'High-quality data is one of the biggest constraints on developing reliable AI for autonomous systems'

operational experience with Britain's world-class AI ecosystem".

The announcement came on Burnham's first overseas trip as prime minister, during which he admitted that Britain faces a "challenging" financial outlook and said he would not create political and economic turmoil by calling an early election.

The prime minister said he would do what he could to help people with their daily living costs but suggested he would not take risks with the economy or adopt policies that pushed up interest rates. Burnham stopped short of ruling out tax increases in the Budget on October 28 and said his policies would be "funded".

"Obviously, people can see the challenging nature of the financial outlook and we will approach it prudently and carefully," he said. "We will always make sure that we put people's security first." Ukraine targets Ozon page 4

Hacking threat

Move to shield supply chains after energy cyber attack

KIERAN SMITH AND MALCOLM MOORE

The government is seeking to change the law so that it can block companies from buying products from high-risk suppliers, in a move that comes shortly after news that a hacking group had shut down a small energy facility.

Ministers could demand that companies in critical sectors such as energy, healthcare and telecoms take extra security measures around, implement a phased removal of, or be banned from acquiring technology from certain vendors under proposals announced yesterday.

The vulnerability of important infrastructure was highlighted by Sunday's revelation that hackers thought to be linked to Iran had forced a small gas plant offline. The National Cyber Security Centre has also warned that companies must do more to guard against cyber attacks.

The government's plans were introduced via amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience bill and are subject to parliamentary approval. They will seek to safeguard the supply chains of companies, which are often used as a "soft underbelly" by hackers seeking to target larger groups.

Baroness Liz Lloyd, cyber security minister, said the new powers meant the government could act “before a threat materialises, not just after the damage is done”.

"This is about staying ahead of a growing threat, and giving the public confidence that the everyday services we depend on like water and energy supplies, our transport network and hospitals, are protected," she said.

The proposals could pose challenges for energy companies, which are heavily reliant on supplies from China, which manufactures more than 90 per cent of the world's solar panels and dominates supplies of batteries and electric vehicles.

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Middle East

Bessent in warning to Iran's trade partners

US Treasury secretary gives countries timeline to end dealings with Tehran

JAMES POLITI, CLAIRE JONES AND ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER — WASHINGTON ANDREW ENGLAND — LONDON

Scott Bessent said yesterday the US was expanding the scope of secondary sanctions on Iran as Washington sought to tighten the economic and financial noose on Tehran with a new threat to target its top trading partners.

The US Treasury secretary's announcement included warnings that countries would be given "a defined timeline" to end trade with Iran, and entities helping Tehran to launder money or evade sanctions could be "cut off from the US financial system".

The announcement stopped short of the sweeping immediate action that Bessent suggested could destabilise the global economy by hitting countries including China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iraq, the republic's largest trading partners before the war.

It comes as the Treasury secretary writes in the FT today that the US would launch an “economic D-Day” against Tehran. Bessent said yesterday that the US was targeting five sectors of the Iranian economy – digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping – for its expansion of secondary sanctions.

Bessent said Washington wanted to send a stark warning that it was prepared to take more aggressive economic action against Iran's trading partners.

"We are giving everyone the opportunity to remedy bad behaviour. Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?" Bessent asked. "We believe that it is important to level set, but they should know that we will move very quickly and that we are serious."

The new warnings come nearly six months since President Donald Trump launched a war against the Islamic republic, which is already under strict

US and international sanctions that have cut it off from the global financial system. The war has been a stalemate.

The US threat to tighten economic pressure on Iran and its trading partners comes despite the mixed results of its efforts to punish countries that have been doing business with Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine.

But Bessent said the US was expecting countries to comply.

"The president is making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions with the regime. We are already seeing results," he said. "If they do not take action, we will do so unilaterally through Treasury authorities. We do not have infinite patience here."

Last month, the Treasury sanctioned six entities and individuals in China, India, Russia, and Iran. The department has also sanctioned more than 100 vessels tied to Iran's "shadow fleet" since the start of the year.

The department did not immediately respond to questions about how the latest sanctions differed from the administration's previous efforts.

US sanctions experts say the enforcement of such vast campaigns is difficult, as new entities pop up almost as quickly as others come under sanctions. Scott Bessent Opinion

Middle East. Military deployments

US questions role of Gulf bases after Iran strikes


Rallying the troops: President Donald Trump addresses US soldiers at the country's Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar last year Daniel Torok/White House/Zuma Press Wire

Damage from Tehran's
missiles has accelerated calls
to reduce regional footprint

JACOB JUDAH — LONDON

For almost four decades, the US presence in the Middle East has been anchored by a chain of vast bases stretching across the Gulf. But in six months of war, Iran has cast their future into doubt.

Tehran, which has battered the US facilities with short-range missiles and drones, quickly exposed how vulnerable the installations had become when positioned so close to Iran. The Islamic republic forced Washington to move soldiers and aircraft beyond its reach to Israel, Jordan and further afield.

Washington has had access to bases in every major Gulf state for more than three decades. It will now need to decide whether to spend billions rebuilding the facilities or rethink its military footprint in the Middle East for a new era.

“Those facilities, particularly the big bases, are very vulnerable. We will see a reweighting of the US military posture away from the Persian Gulf,” said Hal Brands, a scholar at Johns Hopkins University. “It is going to be reweighted away from bases that are within the range of short-range missiles and drones.”

As Pentagon planners have reimagined how to fight against advanced adversaries, large and fixed bases have been losing favour as the staging and supply hubs for military operations. The preference in Washington has been to move towards a more dispersed deployment model that makes it harder to target US forces. This has accelerated longstanding calls to reduce the size of the US footprint in the Gulf — the military embodiment of what began as an oil-for-security arrangement between Washington and its regional allies.

More recently Central Command, which oversees US operations in the Middle East, has been experimenting with scattering soldiers across smaller combat outposts and moving fighter aircraft quickly around temporary touch-and-go runways.

“We can do something more agile and flexible,” said Dana Stroul, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defence for the Middle East, who noted the exposed design of the Gulf bases were ill-suited to modern conflicts. “Those who have been trying to get us out of those bases will feel vindicated."

Among the concerns about the bases are how much remains exposed above ground. Iran struck aircraft hangars, resupply and radar infrastructure, and command-and-control nodes. It has forced the Fifth Fleet to use Diego Garcia, a remote islet in the Indian Ocean, as a stand-in supply hub for its damaged headquarters in Bahrain.

The American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, in April estimated the costs of repairing damage to 11 US bases spread across seven countries in the Middle East stood at about \$5bn. The Pentagon has not included such rebuilding costs in its own cost estimates of the Iran war.


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The US has shifted forces to Israel and Jordan over the past six months. It has also flown aircraft and drones from bases in Europe. All are beyond the reach of Iranian short-range missiles.

But Iran, which is emboldened, will also adapt to the US moves. Danny Citrinowicz, a former Iran analyst with Israeli military intelligence, said he expected Tehran to invest more in medium-range missiles capable of hitting Jordan and Israel. "They will alter their force build-up. They will continue hunting," he said.

As the US has sought to extricate itself from the Middle East and refocus on the Pacific in recent years, the need to maintain an archipelago of bases in the Gulf to stage and supply soldiers from has declined. Washington withdrew from Syria in April and is gradually winding down its operations against Isis in Iraq.

"We no longer need these bases in the same way that we did," said Stroul.

Many operations in Kuwait, where the US base's presence has reflected that nation's security worries since the first Gulf war, had been supporting operations in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

Any rethink would also have implications for the number of soldiers stationed in the Gulf. Normally about 35,000 are rotating through Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait at any one time. This is likely to drop to levels not seen since before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, three former US defence strategists said.

But such an approach will force Washington to reckon with a strategic dilemma: how to reduce its Gulf footprint without emboldening Iran or worrying its Arab allies.

The oil-for-security pact with regional allies has evolved over the decades and there has been a growing effort among some Gulf countries to diversify security relationships beyond Washington. But the Iran war has forced all allies to reflect on what the US commitment to their defence entails.

"This is a situation where the military and diplomatic imperatives cut in opposing directions," Brands of Johns Hopkins said. "You have to combat the perception that you are cutting and running."

Stroul said a delicate balance would be required between US operational requirements and Washington's commitments to partners, noting the need to assess the assets and troop presence to backstop the security of Gulf states. "It will be important to avoid the perception that we are abandoning them."

But behind the uncertain future of US installations is a growing sense of much deeper strategic malaise that the stalemate with Tehran has produced. The US footprint in the Gulf began to emerge in the years that followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979.

Then-president Jimmy Carter in January 1980 outlined what has since come to be known as the Carter Doctrine: that Washington would not permit a hostile state to seize control over the Gulf. It was followed by a massive expansion of permanent US bases after the defeat of Iraq during the first Gulf war.

"The Carter Doctrine does appear to have collapsed," said Gregory Brew, a historian and analyst at the Eurasia Group. "The Islamic Revolution compelled the Carter Doctrine, and it was war with Iran that caused it to collapse."

There appears to be little sense of any new strategic concept for the Middle East that could help guide officials seeking to implement a consistent course forward emerging from the White House. Brands said: “The Pentagon will make its plans and preparations for how the US should reweight its posture. But it will be difficult to move out on those in a consistent fashion because at some point those plans will come into contact with President [Donald] Trump.”

Trump has repeatedly said he does not wish to be remembered like Carter, whose presidency was derailed by the revolution in Iran and the taking of US hostages at the US embassy in Tehran.

"It is an irony of history that strategic failure in Iran will haunt [Trump] too," said Citrinowicz. "He never wanted to become Carter and now he is becoming him."

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International agreement

Washington plans to take on China with nuclear shipping fleet

JAMIE SMYTH — NEW YORK ALICE HANCOCK — LONDON

The US government is teaming up with a British company to help it build a fleet of nuclear-powered merchant vessels to challenge China's growing dominance of commercial shipbuilding, a top official has said.

Stephen Carmel, administrator of the US Maritime Administration at the transport department, told the FT that Washington was poised to sign a public-private partnership agreement yesterday with Core Power, which would help accelerate development of nuclear propulsion for shipping.

“We are not going to beat China by being a cheaper version of China. They have mastered the art of being cheap,” said Carmel. “The way we win in all this is to change the terms of the competition to something that is more favourable to us. So, we do not compete on trying to be cheap. We compete on technology . . . and nuclear technology is something we are really good at.”

The agreement aims to fast-track construction of a US-flagged nuclear-powered fleet by designing a regulatory framework that enables speedy licensing, availability of insurance, port access and high standards of safety.

Core Power, which is based in London and has a relationship with the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas, plans to start building its first nuclear-powered vessel in 2028. The company says it has raised about \$200mn in funding from investors including Japanese conglomerates Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo. The agreement does not include any guarantee of federal funding.

Nuclear propulsion is a technology that has been used for decades in military submarines because it provides unlimited underwater endurance, eliminates the need for oxygen, and delivers high sustained speeds. But until recently, it has struggled to attract interest from the commercial sector because of high building costs, port bans and complex international liability laws.

Russia has the largest nuclear-powered fleet thanks to the use of the technology to propel Arctic icebreakers.

The US is pushing the technology as a way to reinvigorate its shipbuilding industry, which has been decimated by low-cost Chinese competition, and redeploy its nuclear expertise.

In June, the American Bureau of Shipping approved the design of a nuclear-propelled vessel by the Maritime Consortium of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Next week, US officials will hold talks with counterparts from the UK, France, Japan, South Korea and other nations about advancing nuclear maritime technology at an International Atomic Energy Agency event in Washington.

Mikal Bøe, chief executive of Core Power, said there was a strategic imperative for Washington and other allied nations to push ahead with nuclear-powered commercial vessels because China was moving in that direction.

Nuclear propulsion could be competitive with fossil fuels-based systems because vessels could move between 50 per cent and 75 per cent faster, carry more cargo and would not be exposed to environmental taxes, he said.

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Logistics hubs

Ukraine targets Russia's second-largest online retailer Ozon

POLINA IVANOVA — BERLIN FABRICE DEPREZ — KYIV

Ukraine has begun systematically targeting the warehouses of Russia's second-largest online marketplace, Ozon, after weeks of drone strikes against market leader Wildberries.

Ozon said yesterday that a logistics centre in the southern city of Krasnodar was set ablaze by a drone after four of its warehouses in Russia's south had come under attack over the weekend, with fires breaking out at at least two.

"A logistics centre in the suburbs of Krasnodar came under attack by a UAV [drone] . . . A major fire has broken out, and emergency services are on the scene. Operations at the warehouse have been suspended," the company said.

Over the weekend, Ozon reported fires at its warehouse in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, while two other sites, in Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk, were evacuated after drone attack warnings.

The company reported no damage to facilities and goods at the latter sites. The incidents followed strikes on Saturday on Ozon facilities in the central Russian region of Samara and in nearby Orenburg.

The attacks mark a new stage in Ukraine's campaign against Russian ecommerce logistics, after weeks of drone strikes on facilities belonging to Wildberries, the market leader known as "Russia's Amazon".

"After Ukrainian forces hit Wildberries' 15 largest logistics hubs, it is Ozon's turn," Ukraine's defence ministry said on Saturday.

Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said drones had hit 66 targets across Russia and Russian-controlled regions overnight into yesterday. His statement on social media included a definition of "ozone" — an apparent reference to the strikes on Ozon warehouses.

Russia's defence ministry said yesterday its air defences had shot down almost 1,000 Ukrainian drones over the previous 24 hours.

Russian officials said a childcare centre in the Krasnodar region had been hit by drone debris in the overnight attack, killing three children and injuring several others.

“Debris from the drones also fell on residential buildings and apartment complexes under construction. The drone crashes caused a fire in some warehouse facilities. All emergency services are currently on the scene, and rescue workers are extinguishing the fire,” Veniamin Kondratiev, Krasnodar regional governor, wrote on Telegram.

Asked about the attacks on Ozon yesterday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that by focusing on Russia's commercial infrastructure, Ukraine was failing to make any progress on the front line.


Fireball: flames rise from an Ozon facility in Makhachkala, Dagestan

He said the government was “working with business representatives to consider and develop various support options in this difficult situation”.

Ozon shares fell almost 30 per cent on the Moscow Exchange yesterday, prompting the exchange to hold a discretionary auction, according to a statement on its website.

Russia's finance ministry also published a proposal for financial assistance to Wildberries and sellers on its platform, including a 12-month deferral of payment deadlines on VAT, income tax and other taxes.

“Support will be provided to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs whose losses exceed 5 per cent of their annual income,” the ministry said.

In Orenburg, however, regional officials said the local Ozon warehouse had resumed operations.

"The marketplace team responded quickly, and the supply chains are returning to normal," Anton Efimov, the region's vice-governor for economic affairs, said on Telegram. See Markets

Trump's fiscal agenda strained as Iran war hits voters' pockets

Soaring fuel costs and high mortgage rates mark run-up to midterm polls

MYLES MCCORMICK AND EVA XIAO — NEW YORK CLAIRE JONES — WASHINGTON

Almost two years since Donald Trump won election pledging to slash prices and fix the US's public finances, his Iran war and tax cuts have delivered a different outcome: record-high debt, soaring fuel costs and punishing mortgage rates.

Investors pushed yields on long-term US debt to a 19-year high last Tuesday amid alarm at the weight of public borrowing and the war's inflationary fall-out. Scott Bessent, Trump's Treasury secretary, rushed to soothe markets a day later, revealing a programme to "at least double" purchases of long-term debt and plans soon to announce steps to tackle the deficit. The latest market intervention did little to lower Treasury yields and pushed the dollar lower.

Bessent on Thursday said that markets had “gotten ahead of themselves”. Trump says the economy is “booming”, as shown by stock market highs.

"The president's fulminations and his administration's efforts to intervene in

Trump's ‘fulminations . . . have an air of desperation, which is only making matters worse’

currency and bond markets have an air of desperation, which is only making matters worse and turning market sentiment in an even more unfavourable direction," said Eswar Prasad, economics professor at Cornell University.

The market tumult underlines how Trump's economic agenda risks unravelling just as November's midterm elections loom into view. Polls show Democrats leading the president's Republicans on their handling of the economy.

Government debt hit a record \$40tn this week, with borrowing rising at its fastest pace outside the pandemic era as federal spending outstrips income.

The deficit fell only slightly from 6.4 per cent in 2024 to 5.8 per cent of GDP in the 2025 fiscal year. Trump's tax cuts are projected to add to deficits in the years ahead, despite cuts to social safety-net plans including Medicaid and food assistance. "We continue to outspend, [and] the spending demands are even greater with the war," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG US.

Bessent, who pledged to lower the deficit to 3 per cent by the end of Trump's second term, on Thursday said there was a “very, very good chance” it had peaked, with future tariff duties and economic growth boosting revenues.

Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think-tank, said deficit reduction would entail tough choices for Trump, including cuts to Medicare and social security. "I hope what secretary Bessent is saying is true," Strain said. "But there are some major questions about how it might work."

The Treasury did not respond to a request for comment.

On top of the growing debt mountain, Trump's Iran war is pushing up inflation and has ruined the president's vow to halve energy prices and drive down basic consumer costs. Petrol prices have jumped by about 40 per cent since the war broke out to \$4.11 a gallon on Friday. Diesel, the fuel that moves goods through the US economy, has risen by a similar margin to \$5.58 a gallon. The average diesel price in Trump's second term is higher than under Joe Biden.

Mortgage rates are also rising briskly. The 30-year mortgage this week hit 6.65 per cent, up from 5.98 per cent before the war in late February.

"As rates dropped over the final quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, the political pressure on the administration to tackle housing affordability was less," said Jaret Seiberg of TD Securities.

Annual consumer price inflation hit a three-year high of 4.2 per cent in May before dropping to 3.4 per cent in July.

Federal Reserve officials worry that persistently high inflation will become embedded in the economy, but they have opted against raising interest rates, fuelling market jitters over their willingness to contain inflation.

The disruption to Middle Eastern energy supplies has overshadowed the modest growth in the US's own oil output, which Trump had championed as a way to curb prices for Americans. Art Berman, a Houston-based energy consultant, said Trump's war had "squandered" the US's energy advantage. "They just don't get any of this stuff."

The US is still the world's biggest oil producer, although the Energy Information Administration expects output to rise by just 200,000 barrels a day this year. About 20mn b/d of flows through the Strait of Hormuz have been shut in from the Middle East during the war.

The debt burden, borrowing costs and persistent strain of costly fuel and food have weighed on consumer sentiment, which hovers at record lows. Polls show that voters feel they are worse off under Trump's handling of the economy.

Economic growth remains strong, thanks to consumer spending and a rush by Big Tech to pour money into AI infrastructure. But GDP expansion last year of 2.1 per cent and an annualised rate of 1.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 are well below the 5-6 per cent predicted by commerce secretary Howard Lutnick or the 3 per cent targeted by Bessent.

On Thursday, the Treasury secretary said that the US was still poised to "grow our way out" of its debt hole.

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Infrastructure

Germany's investment tsar urges private capital rethink

OLAF STORBECK — FRANKFURT AARON KIRCHFELD — LONDON

The German government must be more willing to join forces with private investors as the country tackles its crumbling infrastructure, its investment tsar Martin Blessing said.

The former Commerzbank chief executive said convincing public authorities to work with private sector investors was a “bigger challenge” than finding private money to help upgrade the country’s roads, bridges and ports after decades of under-investment.

"We still need to get the relevant authorities to say: 'This is something we really want to do'," he said in an interview with the FT.

Sceptical attitudes towards public-private partnerships were beginning to shift in “various ministries” in Berlin, he noted, but the process was “taking a little longer than we had hoped”.

Katherina Reiche, economy minister, has said that the government is hoping to mobilise up to €3.75tn of private capital by 2040 to supplement €1.9tn of public investment over the same period.

Last year, Germany relaxed its constitutional debt brake to boost spending on defence, infrastructure and decarbonising the economy.

Blessing said that in his first year as Chancellor Friedrich Merz's personal envoy for increasing foreign investment in Germany, he had met more than 200 international investors.

Speaking ahead of the country's first annual investment summit in October, he insisted “there is no shortage of either investor interest or money” but “many international investors would like to see more speed when it comes to public-private partnerships and leasing models”. He argued that “private money” can often deliver infrastructure projects “more quickly and efficiently” than the government on its own.

German public opinion has long been sceptical of private equity and foreign takeovers.

Blessing pointed to a recent law change that simplifies planning and approval procedures for significant investment projects of overriding national interest as a positive step.

"This is a key building block for getting infrastructure investment moving quickly," he said.


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Global economy

AI widens US investment gap with Europe

Tech boom to lift spending at three times the rate of bloc, consultancy forecasts

SAM FLEMING AND AMY BORRETT — LONDON OLAF STORBECK — FRANKFURT

Business investment in the US is on track to rise more than three times faster than in Europe in the six years since the pandemic, according to forecasts that highlight the AI-driven gulf opening between the two economies.

Corporate spending on new equipment and facilities in the US is projected to rise 40 per cent in real terms between 2021 and the end of next year, according to forecasts from Oxford Economics.

The consultancy said surging outlays on AI equipment were key drivers in its forecasts. The US surge compared with a real-terms increase of just 12 per cent in the euro area, while German business investment is expected to have all but stagnated over the same period.

The figures underscore the challenge facing Europe as it struggles to keep up with the explosion in US spending on high-tech equipment and facilities. The continent was lagging behind the US's IT investment even before the rise of large language models that started with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

But they also raise questions for the US itself as it bets heavily on AI when the Bank for International Settlements and other institutions are warning of the rising risk of a costly “investment bust”. Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are on track to invest more than \$725bn in 2026 alone.

The Oxford Economics forecasts show that Europe has made little, if any, progress in closing its investment gap since former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi published a landmark report on competitiveness in September 2024. Draghi warned that digitalisation, decarbonisation and higher defence spending required an “unprecedented” surge in investment to levels “last seen in the 1960s and 1970s”.

Daniel Harenberg, an economist at Oxford Economics, said: “The US is a more dynamic economy, more entrepreneurial, so it is moving faster and there are more rewards with the AI race.”

Europe also faces a large and growing productivity gap with the US. "The US has recently pulled further ahead of Europe," Bart van Ark, a professor at the University of Manchester, told ECB policymakers in Sintra this summer.

According to van Ark's analysis, GDP per hour worked increased \$14 in the US between 2018 and 2025, compared with just \$2 in Europe. "The gap is not only a digital sector story," added van Ark.

But van Ark argued that Europe's "deeper problem" was that innovation is "not properly connected" to the adoption of new ideas and tools by business.

ECB president Christine Lagarde warned in a speech last year that the region's manufacturing-dependent growth was "geared towards a world that is gradually disappearing".

Europe has been one of the first jurisdictions globally to enact strict laws regulating the use of AI, with its 2024 AI Act becoming “the first-ever legal framework” on the technology, according to the European Commission.

Critics have warned that stringent rules can stifle innovation and discourage AI investments. "We are out of step with a shifting world," said French

President Emmanuel Macron two years ago, warning that Europe was "over-regulating" and "underinvesting".

Karsten Junius, chief economist at Bank J Safra Sarasín, said “Europe has missed out on the latest wave of cutting-edge technology”. But Junius said he was confident that Europe’s investment gap with the US was at least partly a temporary phenomenon. “AI investment in the US is not going to continue at this scale indefinitely,” he said, adding that investment cycles in IT and semiconductor technology had existed in the past, “and we’ll continue to have them”,

But the problem was made worse by less innovation and agility in Europe, which Junius partly attributed to ossified labour markets. "If Europe fails to catch up in cutting-edge technology, our relative standard of living compared with the US will continue to erode."

Science. Technological progress

African nations join the space race

Governments turn to satellites for improved data on weather and wars, crops and livestock

JACOB JUDAH — LONDON

As a boy in rural Senegal, the closest that Gayane Faye could get to the stars was wandering beneath them with his family flocks or watching rockets being launched on television.

Since then he has helped Senegal into space, one of a growing number of pioneering African scientists looking to the heavens to solve their countries' problems on Earth.

Almost 20 African countries have satellites in orbit, with several more setting up budding space programmes.

This year, African nations will collectively spend more than \$800mn on space projects, almost double what they were spending two years ago. The African Union even set up the African Space Agency last year to improve co-ordination and share best practices.

The continent was bypassed in the space race in the 20th century, but is now betting that satellites will be able to collect reams of data on everything from weather and wars to crops and cattle. This will be invaluable in helping governments understand their countries.

It helps that much of the kit the continent needs no longer has to be cutting-edge and is increasingly affordable. Using launch companies abroad, Botswana and Uganda have sent satellites to scour soils for minerals and warn of droughts and wildfires. Angola is using a communications satellite to connect scattered villages across its vast interior while the arid country of Djibouti is monitoring its water levels from space.

This means that scientists no longer need to waste time and money travelling to scattered sensors to download data, while demographers, agronomists, urban planners and meteorologists will have access to far more information, helping them to save lives and strengthen infrastructure.

“They want sovereign access to data,” said Temidayo Oniosun, an analyst who runs the consultancy Space in Africa. He said that buying high-quality satellite imagery from the handful of mainly western corporations that have cornered the market could be extremely expensive and that requests from countries under sanction by the US or the EU could be turned down entirely.

In focus: Senegal Space Week took place in Dakar in May. The country sent up its first satellite two years ago and has three more in the works Seylou(AFP)Getty Images

Some nations have come far in only a few years. Senegal, which sent up its first satellite two years ago to relay environmental data, with three more in the works, has decided to go all-in. "It is, above all, an economic question," said Faye, who has led the Senegalese effort.

The first satellite, GaindeSat-1A, cost roughly \$1mn to build – a figure that includes the first-time costs of setting up the equipment for a fully functional space station. By the time Faye builds the fourth satellite in the constellation, he expects the cost per satellite to be one-tenth of that.

He is putting together a proposal for a constellation of between six and 12 satellites equipped with cameras — a project that would benefit more than 70 institutions in Senegal alone that rely on blurry pictures provided free of charge that are often useless.

Faye argues that with better imagery, even tasks as simple as estimating how much food will be produced every season can be dramatically improved by tracking fields and herds from above.

There are technical reasons why Africa has begun to catch up. It is easier for scientists to learn to build and operate satellites. Nanosatellites, which are smaller and cheaper than more sophisticated satellites, offer a simpler gateway to experiment and develop skills without breaking the bank or risking the destruction of a multimillion-dollar project with a misplaced screw. They cost as little as \$50,000, and weigh less than a bag of flour.

“You can make mistakes with them and it is OK,” said Taiwo Tejumola, a Nigerian satellite engineer. He trained in Japan and said smaller satellites provided a straightforward way for more advanced countries to pass along knowledge to those eager to learn. “They are a very good first step to build space capabilities,” he added.

Senegal sent engineers and technicians to the University of Montpellier,

Estimating how much food will be produced every season can be improved by tracking fields and herds from above

where they built their first satellite with coaching and technology from French engineers. Now, they are building the second without hands-on coaching. Faye said the third would be assembled in Senegal and the technology on the fourth would be fully homegrown.

But lurking behind every starry-eyed scientist are harder political questions. China, which has specialised in building sophisticated satellites and ground infrastructure, has been offering assistance. Europe, Russia and Japan have also been jostling with offers of technical training and other co-operation.

"There is geopolitics involved at every level," said Julie Klinger at the University of Wisconsin, adding that African countries had tended to go with whichever of their many suitors can offer them the best package. "It is a very competitive marketplace," she said. "There is a sense that they do not have to go with the first offer."

It is often case by case. China offers competitive rates when building or selling satellites and infrastructure. It certainly helps that it is willing to provide low-interest loans as sweeteners. France and Japan have research institutions, such as the International Space University in Strasbourg and the Kyushu Institute of Technology, which have historically been among the first ports of call for satellite-curious scientists.

Geography enhances Africa's strategic significance too. For example, South Africa's location at the tip of the southern hemisphere has made it particularly valuable for supporting polar-orbiting satellites launched from other countries. Djibouti has turned itself into a prime rocket launch site. Europe keeps tabs on its launches from French Guiana in South America from a ground station across the Atlantic in Gabon. China has installations in Kenya and Namibia, which the US claims are critical nodes for managing military satellites.

It is unlikely that the momentum will slow. Some African countries, for example Malawi, have even set up space programmes without any public plans to go into orbit. “You don’t want to be left alone,” said Oniosun, who adds that it makes sense to centralise expertise.

Africa still has far to go before it catches up with the rest of the world. But the only way is up. "We are allowed to dream," said Faye, when asked whether Senegal could eventually put a man in space. He quickly checked himself: "We are very ambitious, but we try to keep our ambition measured."

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Budget hole

France warns of difficulty in scrapping tax surcharge on big business

ADRIENNE KLASA — PARIS

France's finance minister has warned that it would be "difficult" to scrap a controversial levy on the country's biggest companies in next year's budget, risking a potential clash with business leaders.

The “exceptional” surcharge on the profits of large companies was introduced last year but was extended to help plug the substantial hole in the country’s budget.

"If we can reduce [the corporate levy] we will, but today it is not easy," Roland Lescure, finance minister, said yesterday. "We are in a situation unfortunately that is likely to last."

A third consecutive year of the additional levy would set up another fight with big businesses, which last year accused the government of a breach of trust when it was extended for a second time and have long complained that high taxes and other costs make doing business in the country onerous.

However, France is already struggling to reduce its budget deficit. The surcharge is expected to raise more than €6bn for the state this year. Even with this, the country's deficit is likely to reach 5.1 per cent of GDP this year, well

'If we can reduce [the corporate levy] we will, but today it is not easy'

Roland Lescure, finance minister

above EU rules that place a cap at 3 per cent of GDP.

Lescure said the country would “do everything it could” to reach its goal of a deficit of 5 per cent of GDP in the coming year and would not impose any new taxes. But he also warned that shocks including the disruption to the Strait of Hormuz, this summer’s heatwaves and rising borrowing costs posed challenges.

Taxation had been “the magic solution in France for 40 years: when we have a problem, we raise taxes. That is the formula that no longer works. I think we need to think about something else”, Lescure said.

“That does not mean they shouldn’t be adapted. That is part of public policy. But saying we will raise taxes and everything will be fine, that doesn’t work any more.”

France's central bank in June revised down its GDP growth projection for this year from 0.9 to 0.5 per cent after the economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter and oil prices rose owing to the Middle East conflict.

France has long struggled to reconcile voters' expectations of a generous welfare state with the country's high costs and slow economic growth.

With a divided parliament, where no group holds a clear majority ahead of presidential elections set for early next year, the government is expected to face another battle passing the 2027 budget.

Last year, Sébastien Lecornu, prime minister, succeeded in passing the 2026 budget but at a heavy cost.

He made a deal to suspend President Emmanuel Macron's flagship reform to increase the pension age until after the 2027 elections in order to secure the support needed to pass the budget legislation.

The move was a blow to France's ability to implement structural reforms – a cornerstone of Macron's agenda when he came to power in 2017.

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Companies & Markets

UBS discusses axing manager of sustainable finance fund

- Private markets push triggers concern - UK partner Record keeps role for now

ORTENCA ALIAJ AND ALEXANDRA HEAL — LONDON MERCEDES RUEHL — ZURICH

UBS has discussed a management overhaul of a \$1bn sustainable finance fund that works with development agencies such as the World Bank over concerns about UK investment partner Record's push into private markets.

The Swiss bank has in recent months discussed whether it needs to find an alternative manager for the fund, said people familiar with the matter, despite obstacles to moving a fund with illiquid investments that could affect development projects in emerging economies.

UBS recently completed a review of the fund, deciding to stick with the strategy and retain Record as manager, said

'They're looking for a new home but this needs time . . . to find a new manager and new vehicle'

people familiar with the matter. But discussions about Record's role are "likely to continue", one of the people said.

"They're looking for a new home but this needs time . . . to find a new manager and a new vehicle," said another person familiar with the fund.

The \$1bn fund is one of UBS's largest sustainable investment strategies and one of the few of its kind operated by a private institution, allowing agencies such as the World Bank and African Development Bank to hedge currency risks on development loans. The capital to take on this risk is provided by wealthy UBS clients.

The relationship between UBS and Record has soured following a change of direction at the UK-listed company, which has recently moved beyond its core currency hedging business towards higher-fee areas such as managing private equity, infrastructure and private debt assets, the people said.

Record has tried over the past three years to expand into private markets through initiatives that include a sharia-compliant supply chain finance fund, as well as a \$2.2bn agreement to finance a potash mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. People familiar with the projects say neither has progressed.

Options discussed by UBS have included replacing Record as manager of the fund, which has delivered 5.7 per cent in annualised returns in the five years to July, said people familiar with the matter. The bank has weighed lesser changes, including bringing in different managers to perform some functions handled by Record, the people said.

Record was founded by Neil Record, a UK Conservative Party donor who backed Kemi Badenoch's bid for the party's leadership and chairs climate action-sceptical group Net Zero Watch.

Its failure to attract more assets to the UBS fund beyond the money initially raised was also a factor, the people said, adding that UBS wealth clients still account for about 95 per cent of assets.

UBS said: "We recently completed a review of the Emerging Market Sustainable Finance Fund as part of our regular oversight process. The review confirmed our continued conviction in the fund, its portfolio managers and the strategy, which has exceeded expectations since launch."

Record declined to comment on its relationship with UBS, but said its private markets projects had “no impact on the resourcing or focus” of the team running the emerging markets finance fund, which had shown “strong performance”. Neil Record stepped down from his eponymous firm in 2023 but remains its largest shareholder.

'Daily luxury' Coffee chain Blank Street raises funds to fuel expanded menu and US growth


A Blank Street outlet in New York. Its matcha drinks have proved popular with younger consumers — Richard B. Levine

Additional reporting by Joseph Cotterill

GEORGE HAMMOND — SAN FRANCISCO IVAN LEVINGSTON — LONDON

Blank Street has raised \$75mn from investors including private equity firm General Atlantic as the coffee chain pushes to expand on the US west coast and offer new products such as ice cream in an attempt to become a “daily luxury brand”.

The six-year-old group, which launched as a single coffee cart in Brooklyn, is among a crop of fast-growing high street chains seeking to unseat established rivals such as Starbucks and Costa Coffee.

Blank Street has expanded to more than 100 stores, mostly in London and New York. The company is opening new branches in wealthy California enclaves, including Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Malibu, according to co-founder Issam Freiha.

Blank Street has gained popularity with younger customers in particular for its matcha drinks, which have proved a hit on social media.

“Matcha is a critical part of our menu on par with coffee. However, we don’t want to be defined by any single category,” Freiha said. “Our vision is to build Blank Street into a well-rounded daily luxury brand, one that shows up for you in the morning with coffee or in the afternoon with matcha or little bites such as ice cream.”

Freiha said Blank Street made most of its sales in the afternoon and that its fastest-growing time slot was after 4pm. "We've had to completely rethink our menu, hospitality experience, store design and operation flow," he added.

Blank Street was valued at \$500mn in a previous funding round last year, and the latest fundraising values the company at about \$650mn, said a person close to the company.

Some of Blank Street's investors had hoped the new funding round could lift the company's valuation closer to \$1bn, but Freiha said such expectations had been incorrect.

The company's backers include the consumer investor Left Lane Capital and the likes of General Catalyst and Tiger Global, firms better known for backing fast-growing technology companies. Tiger has also backed the bagel chain PopUp Bagels.

General Atlantic also owns the Danish coffee, juice and sandwich group Joe & The Juice. The group has about \$130bn of assets and has made other consumer sector bets, backing fitness brand Gymshark and non-alcoholic beermaker Athletic Brewing.

"We believe out-of-home coffee and matcha is a large, growing category, supported by durable consumer demand," said General Atlantic. "We're excited to partner with Blank Street's talented founding team as they evolve and scale a distinctive brand and menu."

Shein targets valuation of \$27bn for IPO in Hong Kong

ARJUN NEIL ALIM — HONG KONG

Fast-fashion retailer Shein is seeking a \$27bn valuation in a Hong Kong listing next week, almost three-quarters below its peak after previous attempts to list foundered.

The China-founded online company plans to raise as much as HK\$14bn (US\$1.8bn) in a listing on September 1.

It is selling 280mn shares for between HK\$47.60 and HK\$49.50, giving it a market capitalisation of HK\$202bn to HK\$210bn (\$26bn to \$27bn), according to a listing notice published by Hong Kong's stock exchange yesterday. About 90 per cent of the shares will be available to international investors.

Chinese regulators approved the retailer's application to list last month, giving the green light to an initial public offering that has been more than four years in the making. Shein's previous attempts to list in New York and London were derailed by opposition from politicians and regulators amid scrutiny of its Chinese supply chain.

The sub-\$30bn valuation compares with a valuation of about \$100bn that Shein reached after a private fundraising round in 2022. The company has the option to sell an additional 42mn shares depending on demand, which could push the total raised to \$2bn.

The banks on the deal, led by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, will collectively receive an underwriting commission of 1.5 per cent of money raised, along with a discretionary 0.75 per cent incentive fee. That could mean a fee pool of nearly \$40mn before the sale of any additional shares.

Cornerstone investors – which commit to buying and holding the shares for six months – took roughly a fifth of the listing and comprised mainly Shein's existing backers, including US private equity firm General Atlantic and Chinese tech giant Tencent. General Atlantic and investment group Tiger Global both took part in a \$1bn funding round in 2022 that valued Shein at \$100bn, according to PitchBook. Chinese private equity firm Boyu Capital took the largest allocation of \$150mn, followed by General Atlantic, Tiger Global and Tencent at about \$50mn each.

Separately, Shein's \$80mn acquisition of American clothing brand Everlane is under a national security review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Lex page 22

Private credit's insurance boom risks decades of annuity pain

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illionaire Mark Walter's brief ownership stints at the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team (he sold his stake this month) and Chelsea Football

Club (where he is seeking to sell too) are unlikely to be mourned.

But the flak he got from sports fans is nothing compared with the fallout that may be looming in financial markets.

The deals appear to be linked to a dash for cash related to scrutiny of previously hidden “affiliated investments” between different parts of Walter’s business empire. This, though, may prove more than a one-off event in the wider market. Walter was a pioneer in the now fashionable practice of combining private credit asset managers with life insurers. Some regulators rightly seem nervous about sector-wide problems.

When the global financial crisis blew up nearly two decades ago, there were multiple factors that fuelled it. Many stemmed from an inherent bug of banking. Banks borrow most of their money on a short-term basis, from depositors or in the overnight interbank market, and lend it for more extended periods.

Among the many post-crisis regulatory reforms were a clutch that sought to minimise the systemic risk posed by this “duration mismatch”. One of the resulting structural changes in finance was a shift to lending by “shadow banks" such as private capital groups, which raised their funds not from individual depositors but from so-called limited partners such as global sovereign wealth funds and endowments.

The threat of mass losses for individual bank customers, aka voters, had been one of the main triggers for governments to bail out banks in 2008. Shifting that risk to sophisticated institutional investors was surely wise all round, policymakers reasoned.

And that, for many years, was how private capital operated, until the inevitable course of financial innovation played out. As more banks retreated from corporate lending, new models such as Walter's, which connected life insurance cash piles with corporates in search of credit, began to catch on.

Private capital group Apollo bought

Private capital gr life insurer Athene. KKR acquired Global Atlantic. Before long the symbiosis was mainstream. It's easy to see why.

There is little transparency about the sophisticated ways private credit has found to leverage the underlying assets

For the private capital groups, they had a new and

ready flow of money from life insurance premiums to lend out. For policymakers, the model looked less leveraged than traditional bank lending and less likely to put bank deposits at risk.

There are at least three areas of concern, nonetheless.

First, there hasn't been a major credit cycle downturn since 2008. Jitters have been evident recently, with investors sometimes rushing to exit private credit funds. Public bond markets are nervous too and have sold off sharply in recent months. Given geopolitical tension and persistent inflation, a sharp rise in credit defaults feels overdue.

Second, there is a serious design flaw in partnerships between private credit and insurers, at least for insurance policyholders. As private credit groups have shifted away from relying on capital from institutional investors, who expect to exit after a few years, scrutiny of performance and fees has inevitably decreased. In another conflict of interest, insurers may put too much money into private credit, disregarding good-practice asset diversification.

Third, as the term “shadow banking” suggests, data on the sector and any emerging problems is much harder to come by. There is also little transparency about the many sophisticated ways private credit has found to leverage the underlying assets – with much of that borrowing ultimately finding its way back into the banking system.

The fragmented and often underpowered nature of insurance regulation across different US states, and in offshore centres, means the policing of these risks can be weak. In the case of Walter, it is telling that the scale of hidden affiliated trading has been pursued not by the Delaware insurance regulator but by US prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

If the worst happens, and the Walter saga does presage a broader crisis, financiers believe there would be no sudden shock as there was in 2008. It would be a “long-term democratised problem”, as one bank boss put it to me. In other words, the pain would be spread out over the term of decades-long annuities, with losses on soured loans potentially filtering through to millions of annuity owners as lower payouts.

For those who worry about finance's societal licence to operate over the long term, that's no less concerning than the taxpayer bailouts of 2008.

patrick.jenkins@ft.com

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Financial services

KPMG Australia culls hundreds of jobs

Partners' pay to be cut by 13% as revenue tanks amid fallout from audit scandal

NIC FILDES — SYDNEY

KPMG's Australian operation will let go of hundreds of workers and cut average partner pay by 13 per cent, saying that growth is likely to remain "subdued" for at least two years following an audit scandal.

The Big Four firm has been in turmoil for months after claims that some of its senior audit partners used confidential client documents to win new contracts.

The revelation, alongside allegations that the firm mishandled a whistle-blower complaint about the issue, has triggered a political crisis and the exit of most of its top executives in Australia.

The impact has been a sharp downturn in consulting work after public-sector organisations put a freeze on new business and some longstanding corporate clients said that they would end contracts with KPMG.

The firm said yesterday that it would cut 360 employees and 27 partners, mostly in the consulting division. It will restructure some teams, including its mid-market and deal advisory operations, to align better with KPMG's international services. The firm has about 9,000 staff in Australia. KPMG also said it would cut average equity partner pay by 13 per cent as a soft outlook and cuts to government work meant its consulting revenue for the year dropped almost

‘AI [is reshaping] the way services are delivered and government spending on consultants remains lower’

17 per cent. The firm had increased its average pay by 10 per cent last year to A\$715,000 (\$512,000), according to local media. KPMG declined to say what the average pay would be after the cut.

John Sams, who was appointed as chief executive of KPMG Australia last month to steer the firm out of the crisis, said that growth was expected to remain “subdued until at least 2028”. “The professional services sector is . . . changing rapidly as client expectations evolve, AI reshapes the way services are delivered and government spending on consultants remains lower,” he said.

"We also recognise the challenges created by our own failings, and the work we must continue to do to rebuild trust." Gary Wingrove, the incoming chief executive of KPMG International who previously ran the Australian arm, and Bill Thomas, the current chief executive of the global firm, have toured the firm's offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in recent weeks to meet partners ahead of the restructuring announcement. KPMG executives appeared in front of a Senate committee this month to answer questions on how the client document data was misused.

The firm said yesterday that multiple internal and external reviews were set to finish in the coming months and would influence the next phase of its “action plan” adopted in the wake of the scandal.

KPMG's total revenue for the year to the end of June dropped 1 per cent to A\$2.3bn (\$1.6bn), but the full impact of the consulting slowdown and lost work is likely to emerge in the next financial year.

Technology. Financing

China's humanoid robots backed by ‘circular’ deals

Purchases from Beijing-backed training hubs lead investors to question level of real demand

WILLIAM LANGLEY — GUANGZHOU

China's humanoid-robot makers are generating much of their revenue from selling machines to government-backed training centres – which then collect and sell training data back to the robot makers, raising concerns about actual demand in an industry that Beijing is keen to promote.

The widely adopted model, reminiscent of Nvidia's "circular financing" of artificial intelligence data centres, has fuelled China's so-called embodied AI industry. Valuations of start-ups such as AgiBot and Hong Kong-listed UBTech have soared on expectations that humanoids represent the future of AI.

Investors are beginning to question, though, whether government-driven purchases can lead to real commercial demand.

"There is a broad consensus among early-stage investors that humanoid robotics is approaching the peak of the hype cycle," said a senior investor at a Beijing-based venture capital fund who asked not to be named, "We're looking for opportunities to sell down some of our holdings to other investors and secure an exit."

As part of Beijing's plan to develop China's humanoid-robot industry, it has encouraged local governments to build large-scale training centres, where humans "teach" robots how to perform physical tasks through a remote-controlled process called teleoperation.

This has encouraged the proliferation of robotics start-ups. Nearly 370 have been established in the past two years, and more than 50 of them have listed or are preparing to go public. The most closely watched, Unitree, surged more than 600 per cent after listing on Shanghai's tech-focused Star Market on Wednesday last week, giving it a \$50bn valuation.

The centres, often co-funded by local governments and robot makers, buy the machines, generate training data and then sell the data to the robot makers to improve their technology.

"This model is spreading rapidly because it reduces the cost of building facilities, buying equipment and organising teleoperation teams," said Poe Zhao, an independent China tech analyst and founder of Hello China Tech.

"But it also blurs the distinction between independent demand and

A training centre for humanoids in Wuhan, China. Below: robots by Unitree perform at last week's World Robot Conference in Beijing
VCG/VCG/Getty Images; Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

demand created within a policy-supported ecosystem."

Only a small share of the data was sold to non-robotics groups such as carmakers for assembly-line use, training centre staff said. "This model can't last," said another investor. "If they fail to prove their robots can be deployed at scale on factory floors, investors will begin to reassess valuations."

More than 90 training centres had been established or were being built across China by June, according to consultancy Interact Analysis. Leading centres said they generated more than 10mn data points a year.

Prices vary, but one seller told the FT that training data for a five-minute robot dance could cost as much as Rmb1mn (\$148,000).

The training centre build-out is reshaping industry forecasts. Morgan Stanley raised its estimate for China's humanoid-robot shipments in 2026 to 50,000 units, from 28,000 in June, citing stronger than expected purchases by local governments and commercial users. Supporters of the model argued that it would help to build up the country's robotics industry and supply chain, noting the examples of electric vehicles and solar panels – sectors that China now dominates after government purchases drove initial demand.

For local governments, the model helps attract investment, talent and supply chains to areas where income from land sales has declined. Some centres hire university students as robot trainers and offer paid tours for children and teenagers during school holidays.

'There is a broad consensus among early-stage investors that humanoid robotics is nearing the peak of the hype cycle'

For the robot makers and their suppliers, the centres are a source of revenue amid limited commercial demand. Shenzhen-based Leju Robot said training centres accounted for 45 per cent of sales of its Kuavo humanoid last year, making them its largest revenue source.

UBTech disclosed Rmb140mn (\$21mn) of orders from governmentbacked training centres last year. Although still lossmaking, the company said that robot deliveries accounted for 41 per cent of its Rmb2bn revenue last year and expected government orders to drive further growth this year.

Almost three-quarters of Unitree's humanoid revenue in the first nine months of last year came from users in the education and research sectors, including universities. Analysts said that a relatively small proportion of shipments went to data collection centres.

Analysts said that the close ties between local governments and robot makers made it difficult to distinguish genuine demand from policy-driven purchases.

“Companies like ours need revenue, not necessarily profits,” said an algorithm engineer at a Beijing-based company that sells software to robot makers. “The robot training centres can tell their superiors they’ve bought the equipment and robots, they’ve built data collection facilities and they’ve sold data.” He added: “Both sides get what they need, and both sides have something to show.”

At Beijing's largest robot training centre, where more than 100 Kuavo robots have been deployed, Leju owns almost 38 per cent of the operating company, according to records.

UBTech declined to comment. Leju and Unitree did not respond to requests for comment.

Another open question is whether the data generated justifies the investment.

Marco Wang, analyst at Interact Analysis, said training centre data would not be “100 per cent useful” because the robots were not deployed in real-world settings. “The real-world application or real-world manufacturing line, real-world warehouse is always different from your scenario,” said Wang.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs said that scarce high-quality, real-world data remained the biggest hurdle to widespread adoption.

A senior manager at a training centre in northern China said each robot maker's data could be used only by that company, raising concerns about compatibility. She added that on average, only two or three hours of data from an eight-hour training shift were usable.

“China often accepts duplication and failed projects in the early stages of a strategic industry,” said Hello China Tech’s Zhao. “The expectation is that technical learning, stronger supply chains and a handful of globally competitive companies may justify losses elsewhere.”

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Oil & gas

Shell attracts bid interest for \$8bn sale of chemical assets in US

OLIVER BARNES AND JAMIE SMYTH — NEW YORK IVAN LEVINGTON AND MALCOLM MOORE — LONDON

Shell has drawn interest from potential bidders including ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell for its multibillion-dollar US chemicals assets, as the UK oil group looks to offload underperforming parts of its operations.

Shell's US chemicals plants are located across four sites in Louisiana, Texas and Pennsylvania, producing a wide range of chemicals for use in plastics, detergents and pharmaceuticals.

The sites include the vast Monaca complex in Pennsylvania, which started operations in 2022 and produces up to 1.6mn tonnes of polymers a year. Shell has invested \$14bn in the facility.

Bidders including Exxon, Lyondell, private equity group Apollo and the chemicals arm of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation have expressed interest in the assets, according to people familiar with the matter.

The interested parties submitted non-binding indicative offers for the assets last month, the people said, with the approaches including proposed acquisitions of both the whole business and parts of it. Cumulatively, the assets could fetch as much as \$8bn, the people added, noting that there was no guaran-

The price would represent a steep discount to the capital Shell has invested in its US chemical facilities

tee the sale process would result in a transaction.

That price would represent a steep discount to the amount of capital Shell has invested in its US chemical facilities. The energy group is also working with advisers to market its chemical assets in Europe, although those are likely to be worth far less, said some of the people.

Wael Sawan, chief executive, said last year that Shell had deployed \$45bn of capital “that is underperforming for us”, split between its chemicals business and its renewable energy arm.

The group said in March last year that it did not feel it was the “natural owner” of its chemicals portfolio and that it wanted to reduce its exposure by 2030.

Until this year, when the war in the Middle East triggered a surge in prices, the company's chemicals unit was loss-making despite Sawan's efforts to trim costs. However, he said in February that Shell would "be patient" because it did "not want to be selling at bottom-of-cycle conditions".

Shell's exit from chemicals comes as other oil companies, including Chevron, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Saudi Aramco have expanded or considered expanding their investments in the sector in an effort to own more of the oil value chain, from pumping crude to producing plastics and other chemicals.

Shell is aiming to refocus its business on its core oil and gas operations. The company this year agreed to buy Canadian shale producer ARC Resources for \$16.4bn in its largest acquisition for a decade. The group reported its second-highest quarterly profit in the second quarter.

Shell, Exxon and Apollo declined to comment. Lyondell and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation did not respond to requests for comment.

Insurance

Saudi Arabia holds talks over shipping cover

LEE HARRIS — LONDON

Saudi Arabia has held talks with London brokers about a state-backed scheme for war and political-risk insurance that could provide cover for ships in the region, according to people familiar with discussions, as conflict threatens the kingdom's trade.

Insurers have raised prices and restricted coverage for vessels, infrastructure and cargo such as oil and chemicals in recent months owing to the Iran war and the Houthis' escalating campaign against Saudi Arabia.

In some cases, insurers have refused to sell war cover to ships seeking to trade through vital chokepoints including the Red Sea, whose port of Yanbu has become critical to the kingdom's oil exports since the throttling of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Saudi Ministry of Finance has explored a plan under which ships and marine cargo assets could obtain cheaper insurance through a so-called pool, which would offer as much as SAR 700mn (\$186mn) in commercial cover for each insured event, such as the seizure of a ship or a missile attack, according to people familiar with talks.

While the first layers of insurance coverage would be provided by insurers and reinsurers, the people said, hundreds of millions more dollars would be available for each entity through the state-owned Saudi Export-Import Bank. In one version of the plans discussed, reinsurers Saudi Re and Riyadh Re would lead a group of participating reinsurers, which could also include international firms.

The Saudi Insurance Authority, ExIm Bank, Saudi Re and Riyadh Re did not respond to requests for comment.

Talks about the programme, including over terms and the amount of risk shouldered by the Saudi government, were continuing and could fail to result in an agreement, the people added. The discussions come after an effort announced this year by US President Donald Trump to subsidise insurance for ships seeking to transit the strait, which secured backing from insurers Chubb and AIG. The facility had aimed to provide as much as \$40bn in cover but months after launching had not written a single dollar of cover, the FT previously reported.

The scheme explored by Saudi Arabia would aim to bring down insurance costs and help shipowners and other businesses obtain more comprehensive coverage, including for war, political violence and terrorism, which are often sold separately.

“Cover is certainly still attainable in the region, I don’t see this as a market in crisis,” said Maximilian Hess, founder of Enmetena Advisory, a political-risk firm. He added, though, that a pool could help “ensure that insurance is still available at good commercial rates”. Additional reporting by Nicolas Parasie

Financials

Weinstein fund seeks Baillie Gifford trust roles

COSTAS MOURSELAS AND ALAN LIVSEY — LONDON

Boaz Weinstein's activist hedge fund Saba is seeking to install its own candidates on the board of a Baillie Gifford investment trust, as the US billionaire renews his onslaught on the sector.

The hedge fund yesterday put forward three candidates for the board of Baillie Gifford's US Growth Trust to be voted on at the investment trust's annual meeting later this year, having twice been rebuffed in attempts to influence the board over the past 18 months.

The US Growth Trust invests in public or private companies that it believes will grow rapidly and holds stakes in companies including Nvidia, Anthropic and Amazon.

But while the £906mn investment trust was an early investor in SpaceX alongside other Baillie Gifford trusts, it has made virtually no gains over the past five years after sustaining heavy losses in 2022. It has spent much of the time since then recovering losses, with the value of its holdings up 240 per cent since launch in 2018.

Filings from December last year showed Saba has a 28 per cent shareholding in the US Growth Trust, with a further 1 per cent in derivatives that gave it economic exposure to the shares.

Boaz Weinstein's fund, Saba, has run a campaign against several UK investment trusts since 2024

Saba's candidates include Sir James Waterlow, a managing director at the hedge fund, and two other candidates whom Saba has previously nominated in other board battles.

Saba has not commented on its latest board proposals, but it has previously complained about the trust's performance and the discount the shares had traded at relative to the assets they manage.

Such discounts affect many investment trusts because, unlike many other fund structures, there is no easy way to redeem shares for the underlying net asset value.

The trust is trading at an 8 per cent discount to its net asset value, tighter than the 11 per cent five-year average.

Saba has been running a campaign against several UK investment trusts since 2024, with mixed results.

Saba has mixed up its tactics throughout its campaigns, variously calling for share buybacks to close discounts, changes in investment strategy, or even to wind up trusts.

In April, it took control of the board of another Baillie Gifford trust, Edinburgh Worldwide, on its third attempt. But its attempt to change the board at real estate investment trust Workspace failed in July.

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Media fights back against Trump legal cases

Bold stances from the BBC, Disney and The New York Times show groups are now willing to take on a litigious president

DANIEL THOMAS — LONDON ELLA LEE — WASHINGTON

Even by the standards of today's Washington, it was an unusual spectacle: a Federal Communications Commissioner applauding a company's decision to sue the agency on which she serves.

Last week Walt Disney launched an attack on the US media regulator, accusing it of a “retaliatory campaign” against its ABC television network. Its aggressive response to the US media regulator and its Trump-appointed chair, Brendan Carr, is in sharp contrast to the state of play just after the 2024 election, when owner Disney paid \$15mn plus costs to settle quickly a suit by then president-elect Donald Trump.

That move, along with another \$16mn settlement at CBS, raised concerns that media companies would be more likely to cave in under pressure during the emboldened president's second term.

But there are growing signs of media groups' willingness to stand firm against a litigious president. Trump is fighting multiple legal battles – and seeing some initial setbacks – against media organisations including the BBC, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Some media executives and analysts see growing strategic merit in fighting these cases, with one eye on the midterm elections in November, which could shift the political landscape.

“Fear [of Trump] doesn’t really work the way it used to,” said media analyst Claire Enders. “Disney can see the mid-terms coming up and is aggressively protecting their rights. Media owners can see beyond Donald Trump.”

News media have faced a renewed barrage of attacks from Trump in his second presidency, including frequent criticism of individual journalists and organisations whom he has long called “enemies of the people” and “fake news”. However, the rivalry between the administration and the media has shifted from the White House briefing room to the courts in his second term.

"In his first term, it was more just talk," said Bob Corn-Revere, a First Amendment litigator and chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "In his second term, he's been taking more actions, and that's been facilitated by the fact that he has surrounded himself with lower-level officials who appear willing to do pretty much anything."

The difference now was not just that media groups are less likely to self-censor or settle with the administration, said Marty Kaplan, research professor of communication and journalism at the University of Southern California.

“Media companies now understand that appeasement is not a strategy,” said Kaplan. “They are taking the initiative.”

Lee Levine, a retired lawyer who represented journalists and news organisations, said some outlets “naively” capitulated to the president, akin to major law firms facing Trump’s ire thinking “if you placate him, the storm will pass”.

"That turned out, obviously, not to be the case," he said, calling the news organisations' moves a kind of "buyer's remorse".

Disney is suing the FCC over what it called a “retaliatory campaign” against its ABC television networks over the content of its broadcasts. The FCC in April ordered an early review for the renewal of licences – the first time this has happened in more than half a century – and is separately investigating whether the ABC talk show The View violated broadcast rules.

Trump has repeatedly called for the FCC to revoke ABC's licences, including attacks after Jimmy Kimmel, who hosts

Protesters decry ABC for its suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel. Below, Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, and ABC show 'The View' — M Scott Brauer/ZUMA Press Wire; Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg; Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

a late-night show on the network, joked that first lady Melania Trump looked like an “expectant widow”.

FCC chair Carr said in an interview with the FT this year that the Disney review was not related to Kimmel's comments. Disney alleges that the "timing underscores the commission's true purpose: coercing and retaliating against a network that refuses to bow to the administration's demands".

Anna Gomez, the regulator's sole

Democrat, also accused the FCC of waging a “sustained, co-ordinated campaign of censorship and control” against Disney and ABC.

For ABC, Trump and Carr were “the gifts that keep on giving” because “they can’t keep their mouths shut”, retired lawyer Levine said. “Without having to dig and find information that’s otherwise hidden about what their motives are, they just tell you,” he said.

“And if there’s one thing that seems absolutely deadlock-certain in First Amendment law, it’s that the government can’t wield its power to punish someone because they have the temerity to criticise or publish or broadcast information that the current holders of political office disagree with.”

The Disney suit also makes explicit what many in the industry have been saying privately: that media companies consider the risk of retaliation by Trump when they make editorial decisions.

Proof, the suit said, was ABC's decision to livestream a Trump speech out of concern that the president could attack the network if it did not.

“ABC was aware that the president wanted the address to be broadcast live, and considered the risk of resulting administration retaliation,” the broadcaster said in a filing.

Disney made it clear that the impact of pressure from the White House went "well beyond ABC".

"If the administration gets its way, the message to every media company in the country will be unmistakable: tell only the stories the administration deems favourable, or face the coercive machinery of the federal government."

The FCC said the agency had been examining claims that Disney engaged in “illegal DEI discrimination” for more than a year. It said that Disney’s lawsuit showed the company was “obviously very concerned about the FCC’s proceeding”.

The Disney lawsuit marked an unusually firm stance against the administration, legal experts say, reflecting the unprecedented nature of the threat to its rights under the First Amendment.

"I wouldn't say that the media feels more 'emboldened' these days, but more concerned about the assault on First Amendment rights by this administration than any in our history," said Floyd Abrams, senior counsel in Cahill Gordon & Reindel's litigation practice group.

"No FCC in the past has ever played such an overtly political and thus threatening role than the current one."

Daniel Suhr, president of the conservative Center for American Rights, which has backed the administration's efforts, contended that the FCC "stepped out" of its regulating role for decades, under chairs of both parties, and "unsurprisingly, the media evolved in a no-guardrails environment".

The president's style with the media had not changed, but Carr was now "moving forward with the president's approach", he said.

“Chairman Carr is, I think, reinstalling some of the basic guardrails that Congress first put in place, and that have really always been part of our broadcasting tradition up until the last few decades.”

A spokesperson for Trump's legal team told the FT that the president would "continue to hold accountable those who traffic in lies, deception and fake news for their reckless and politically motivated efforts to defame him, the Maga movement, and the American people".

[Disney's lawsuit has] real potential for success. And if so, it will very much embolden other media companies'

Soon after Trump's second election in 2024 he sued ABC and Paramount, the owner of the CBS News Network. Both had donated millions of dollars to Trump's presidential library to settle lawsuits – moves that raised concerns that media groups would be more pliable in his second term.

Since then, Trump's lawsuits against other media outlets have met firmer opposition. He is moving to amend his defamation claims against both the BBC and The New York Times after the organisations sought to dismiss them.

Trump, his businesses and administration have also faced lawsuits from the Associated Press over access, National Public Radio over funding and, most recently, over the sale of faster access to his posts on Truth Social by The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Last month, the justice department dropped efforts to subpoena four journalists at The New York Times after the newspaper published a story about security concerns aboard the new Air Force One aircraft.

Trump is still suing The New York Times over its coverage, including a story about his TV show The Apprentice. The Times argues that Trump has failed to “plausibly allege actual malice”. Trump has said he will “continue to hold The Times and their ‘comrades’ in the Mainstream Media accountable”.

Trump also wants to amend his lawsuit against the BBC after the British broadcaster sought access to financial records to see whether his claim of financial harm was accurate.

The BBC has asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit and is now attempting to subpoena members of Trump's family. The BBC case showed the power of "disclosure as a strategy", said Kaplan, even if few in the broadcaster want a long and costly case.

Trump also needed to refile an amended \$10bn defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal after it published a lewd drawing that it alleged was made and signed by Trump that was included in a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein. Trump denies that he made the drawing.

“He’s writing a playbook as he goes,” Levine said. “And there will be somebody, or some bodies, who will consider themselves the heirs to his coalition or his base, and view this as one of the major tools in their arsenal.”

An “unintended byproduct” of the legal battles might be fresh case law making it more difficult for future administrations to target the press likewise, he added.

“Disney was one of the very first to — if you want to use the term — capitulate to the Trump administration in the very early days, but now clearly it needs to act,” said Jon Miller, a veteran media executive and chief executive of Integrated Media Co, which owns a portfolio of media and creator ventures.

"It's a lawsuit with real potential for success. And if so, it will very much embolden other media companies."

For now, as Disney, the BBC and other companies argue with Trump in court, there is a sense that time is starting to be on their side. Included in their calculations, say some media experts, is the fact that lawsuits could take up to two years and potentially land on the other side of a Trump administration.

"It's a decent bet that Trump and co are gone in two years," said Kaplan. "The administration can be defeated by the same lawfare efforts that they normally try – getting them tied up in the courts."

Energy. Innovation

Eni expands punt on nuclear fusion as rivals join 'holy grail' commercialisation race

Oil major says technology could be ‘next refinery’ and backs US start-up’s efforts to open plants

RYOHTAROH SATOH — LONDON

Italian oil major Eni is widening its bet on nuclear fusion, arguing that the technology could become its “next refinery” and aiming to be among the first energy companies to commercialise fusion in Europe.

Francesca Ferrazza, head of magnetic fusion initiatives at Eni, told the FT that "competition is growing" in the fusion industry after the technology and expectations had changed significantly in the past five to six years. "It was always considered research. Now we are considering it as an industry."

Ferrazza said that Eni aimed to open a commercial fusion plant in Europe by the early 2040s or even sooner.

The plant would be developed by US start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), in which Eni is an investor.

CFS has raised about \$3bn to date and aims to bring its first commercial plant online in the US by the early 2030s.

Ferrazza said that successfully starting the US plant would “open a number of other opportunities” for CFS, with Eni hoping to open a second plant in Europe.

Her comments came as major energy companies, including Shell, Chevron and Germany's RWE, enter the race for fusion, placing early bets on what some call the "holy grail" of energy, with the technology holding out the promise of abundant, low-carbon electricity.

Fusion aims to generate electricity by recreating the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, fusing atomic nuclei in a superheated plasma. It is far more difficult than splitting atoms, the process known as fission that powers conventional nuclear plants.

While laboratory experiments have demonstrated potential, no company has yet proved that the technology can be turned into a commercial power plant.

Eni has been especially interested in the process of extracting and purifying the used fusion fuel to be injected back into the reactor, the so-called fuel cycle.

The company has recently formed a joint venture with the UK Atomic

Energy Authority, Britain's national fusion laboratory, to provide consulting services for the process.

The process involves recovering unburned fuel from the fusion reactor and separating tritium and deuterium – the hydrogen isotopes commonly used as fusion fuel – so they can be purified and reused. Eni thinks that its decades

An Eni petrol station in Brescia, Italy. The Italian group is among an increasing number of energy and utility companies with an interest in nuclear fusion Francesca Voipi/Bloomberg

of experience handling hydrogen and processing hydrocarbons could give it an engineering advantage in developing the technology. The fusion fuel was “the next refinery point for us, [and] for the world. And why not have it in our basket?” said Ferrazza.

Eni's strategy reflects growing interest among energy and utility companies in fusion after an initial wave of investment led by big technology groups seeking clean energy for artificial intelligence data centres.

Chevron and Shell have invested in US fusion group Zap Energy, while the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned utilities operator, has backed Type One Energy.

Eni's core vehicle for its fusion ambition is a collaboration with CFS, which is one of the best-funded fusion companies, with Eni already agreeing to buy electricity from CFS's first US plant under a power purchase agreement valued at about \$1bn.

Ferrazza said that forming the right partnerships, and potentially winning government support, had become essential because the competition was heating up. Fusion companies would probably need “billions” of dollars to put their commercial power plants on the grid, she added. “It’s too big a game to fail.”

However, Chris Gadomski of BloombergNEF said recent investments by tech giants such as Google in both fusion and fission companies suggested that even some of the sector's most experienced backers were not yet confident of success.

They were “spreading their bets”, he said, reflecting a view that “we’re not sure which one of these will happen, so we’re going to cover a variety of them.”

"There's a history in the nuclear industry of misrepresentation or underestimating how long it's going to take to build and how much it's going to cost," Gadomski said.

"And that's a very significant challenge that has to be overcome."

Utilities

Thames Water creditors outline board shake-up

Appointments lined up in attempt to reassure No 10 and avoid nationalisation

GILL PLIMMER — LONDON

Thames Water's creditors plan to appoint four new board members if the government allows them to take formal ownership of the struggling utility, as they seek to avoid nationalisation under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

The lenders yesterday said that they had lined up Liz Barber, former chief executive of Yorkshire Water, to join the board, in a move aimed at reassuring the government that there would be a change of leadership under their ownership.

She would be joined by Dame Bernadette Kelly, the former permanent secretary at the Department for Transport, and Clive Selley, the former chief executive of Openreach. Mike McTighe, the chair of Openreach who is already advising Thames Water, would also join the board, the creditors said.

The prospective appointments come as Burnham faces mounting pressure to renationalise the business under the government's special administration regime, a move that would impose large losses on the creditors.

The utility, which is shackled by a £20bn debt pile, serves 16mn customers across London and the surrounding areas but has teetered on the brink of financial collapse for nearly three years and is in effect already in the hands of creditors. It is expected to run out of cash as soon as October.

The creditors — a consortium of distressed-debt investors and financial institutions, operating under the name London & Valley Water — aim to reach a deal with the government and the regulator Ofwat this autumn formally to take over the business. The consortium plans to list the company on the London stock market as early as 2030.

To prevent a liquidity crunch, the creditors have offered to inject short-term bridge financing into the company ahead of a broader debt restructuring.

People familiar with the matter said the consortium would need an indication that the government was still committed to a “market solution” rather than nationalisation before making more rescue financing available.

Any new debt would need to be put out to public consultation and approved by the courts in a process that could take several months, particularly if it faced legal challenges.

McTighe, who is spearheading the utility's restructuring, said a 10-year turnaround plan would "fix the foundations" of the Thames Water network.

The previous Labour government under Sir Keir Starmer had indicated it was keen on a “private sector solution” for the utility, but the tone has shifted under Burnham, who called for greater public control of utilities and said that “public ownership” of Thames Water was “what should be done”.

In an effort to align with the new administration's agenda, the creditors have said that they will consider measures to provide greater “public control” of the company, including a “golden share” for the government and local representation on the utility’s board.

If Thames Water were to be taken into public ownership through the government's special administration regime, its debt payments and interest would be frozen, freeing up cash for investment in infrastructure. Creditors of the water utility would have a right to be bought out for an “appropriate value”, which would be decided in the courts.

UK COMPANIES

Hiring hopes Top recruiters defy 'tough' Europe sector

A drop in income at the UK's biggest listed recruitment firms was offset by a rise in operating profits helped by restructuring programmes — Jason Alden/Bloomberg

The UK's biggest listed recruitment firms have reported tentative signs of improvement after making deep cost cuts, despite continued weakness in European job markets.

Executives at the top UK recruiting companies said that Germany's shrinking automotive sector, political instability in France and stricter workforce rules in the Netherlands contributed to the cautious hiring market on the continent.

Net fees at the recruiters largely fell in the first six months of this year, but the drop in income was offset by a rise in operating profits helped by restructuring programmes.

This drew back investors, who sent share prices up after a bullish trading update from Hays. They were also encouraged by net fees holding up better this year, as well as reduced workforces.

Hays last week reported an 8 per cent slide in net fees for the 12 months to June 30, compared with an 11 per cent drop the year before. It also registered a pre-tax loss of £54.5mn, its first full-year loss in 20 years because of £90mn in restructuring costs.

Last month Michael Page, which recently changed its name back from

PageGroup, reported a 2 per cent drop in gross profit for the six months to June 30, compared with a 10 per cent fall in 2025. Its two largest markets are Germany and France, where it reported “tough conditions”.

Robert Walters reported last month that net fees decreased 3 per cent in the six months ending June, at constant currency rates, also an improvement on its 2025 decline.

Recruiting firms are quitting smaller European markets after years of difficulties. Hays is “exploring options” for its Dutch and Belgian divisions after it sold six country units, including Denmark and Hungary, this year.

Toby Fowlston, chief executive of Robert Walters, described the region as “very challenging” while noting the improvement from the more than 20 per cent declines it reported last year.

Fowlston attributed the fall in hiring partly to legislation, particularly in the Netherlands, that has made it harder to hire non-permanent workers.

Hays reported that net fees fell 9 per cent in Germany, its largest market, owing in part to the country's exposure to the automotive sector.

Germany, once the powerhouse of the global auto industry, has struggled in recent years as cheap Chinese cars flood the market. Executives in the country said it was facing a “lost decade” in investment terms even after the government last month announced a planned €10bn in income tax cuts.

Asia was a bright spot for the recruitment sector, with all the firms reporting an increase in net fees for the region.

Mark Dearnley, chief executive of Hays, said he was “hugely encouraged” by Japan, where net fees rose 10 per cent, highlighting that Japanese companies were “looking to work in a more international way”.

The recruiters remained confident that humans will remain in the loop amid concerns that the sector is ripe for AI automation. Fowlston said he was “acutely aware” of the AI threat but added: “It’s a human decision to move a job, it is a human decision to hire somebody.” Michael Page said it was developing AI systems to assist its consultants but that AI would serve in an “enabling role to our consultants rather than a replacement”.

Megan Snaith in London

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Commodities. Wheat futures

Grain prices surge after Ukraine war chokes off seaborne exports

Analysts fear global food price shock if military attacks on terminals and ships continue

SUSANNAH SAVAGE — LONDON

Wheat prices have surged as escalating attacks by Russia and Ukraine on each other's Black Sea ports and commercial vessels threaten to choke off seaborne grain exports from two of the world's biggest suppliers.

Benchmark wheat futures have risen to near three-year highs as traders react to mounting disruption to export operations, including attacks on Ukraine's biggest port on the Danube and on Russia's Black Sea terminals at Novorossiysk in the past fortnight.

“It’s worse for the wheat market than Hormuz was for crude,” said Andrey Sizov, managing director of SovEcon, a research firm focused on Black Sea agricultural markets, in reference to the impact on global energy supplies of the near closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war.

"The longer this drags on, the bigger the consequences we will see," he said, given that there was no sign of de-escalation in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat and Ukraine the fifth-largest. Together, they supply about 30 per cent of the world's demand.

Disruption across the two countries' ports in the Azov and Black Sea basin is set to reduce global supplies by as much as 86mn tonnes this year or about 17 per cent of global cereal exports, according to Oxford Economics, with 52mn tonnes of Russia's exports affected and 34mn tonnes of Ukraine's.

The consultancy said alternative routes for Ukrainian exports by rail and the Danube river would replace only about 17mn tonnes, even if additional capacity on those routes became available.

Russian strikes on cargo ships have brought to a standstill shipping through Odesa, Ukraine's biggest seaport, and other Ukrainian Black Sea ports, just as the country's main harvest gets under way.

At the same time, a Ukrainian attack on Novorossiysk last week has forced all three of the Russian port's major grain terminals to halt operations.

While Ukraine has agreed at the urging of US vice-president JD Vance not to repeat its attacks on tankers using Novorossiysk's oil terminal, it has made no such undertaking about its grain terminals.

The disruption has come at a particularly bad time. The winter wheat harvest is well advanced in both countries and August marks the beginning of the peak period for shipping the new crop to international buyers.

The recent attacks have dramatically reduced the amount of grain moving out of Ukraine, which relies on agriculture for 60 per cent of its export revenues.

Its grain exports this month are down about 75 per cent from last year, according to government data.

Russia is also struggling to move its crop after Ukraine intensified attacks on its ports and ships. SovEcon expects it to export about 2.2mn tonnes this month, down from about 4.6mn tonnes in August 2025, with the bulk of shipments moving through routes outside the Azov and Black Sea basin.

“Russia’s Black Sea and Azov grain export capacity is currently shut down,” Sizov said, with export capacity in the region cut from about 3.3mn tonnes a month to about 250,000 tonnes at Russia’s only remaining operational facility at the Black Sea port of Tuapse.

"We do not rule out further attacks on Novorossiysk, particularly given reports that local air-defence systems have been heavily damaged," Sizov said.

Surging wheat prices are adding to pressure on agricultural commodities from widespread drought, disruption due to the El Niño weather pattern and fertiliser shortages resulting from the Iran war, raising fears that the latest escalation could feed into a broader rise in global food prices.

"We expect global food prices to increase 11.8 per cent this year . . . and 4.8 per cent in 2027," said Tatiana Orlova, lead economist at Oxford Economics.

While this year's food inflation is likely to be less than last year's, she added, "given that Russia is the largest grain exporter globally and Ukraine is the fifth-largest, the recent escalation of fighting in the Azov and Black Sea basin

Nowhere to go: Ukraine's grain exports this month are down about $75\%$ from last year, according to government data - Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg

'It's worse for the wheat market than Hormuz was for crude'

could result in a more severe global food price shock".

Grain prices soared to record highs following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 but fell following a UN-brokered Black Sea grain initiative, which allowed the free passage of ships.

After the deal collapsed in July 2023, Ukraine developed new export routes on the Black Sea coast to the Romanian port of Constanța and along the Danube.

However, this year's summer of extreme heat and low rainfall has lowered water levels in the Danube, reducing the amount of cargo that vessels can carry and increasing freight costs.

Russia also attacked infrastructure at Izmail, Ukraine's biggest grain-exporting port on the Danube, last week.

Despite the rise in wheat futures, some analysts argue that prices still do not adequately reflect the risk of a prolonged disruption to Black Sea supplies.

Even before the latest attack on Novo-rossiysk, agribusiness research group BMI warned that the market was pricing in “relatively little sustained disruption”, a position it described as “misguided”.

A prolonged or repeated interruption to Russian and Ukrainian exports would have consequences for global wheat supplies that were “disproportionately large relative to what current pricing implies”, it said.

"Commodity traders don't believe in supply shocks anymore," said Sizov, adding that, since 2022, the market had embraced the idea that all problems in the Black Sea were temporary.

“‘Sooner or later it will resolve and the market will tank’ . . . that’s a very popular way of thinking,” he added.

Nonetheless, Sizov said he expected the three-year high reached in wheat futures in July to soon be “surpassed”.

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Financials

US swoops on Europe's asset managers gather pace

EMMA DUNKLEY AND HARRIET CLARFELT LONDON

US companies are stepping up their assault on Europe's asset management industry, with takeover spending at its highest in decades as the continent's fund groups struggle in the race to bulk up and expand globally.

Acquisitions of European asset and wealth managers by US groups have risen to more than \$14bn this year, according to Dealogic, the highest over equivalent periods since at least 1995, when the data series began. US buyers have included rival fund groups, insurers and private equity firms.

European asset managers are more at risk of being acquired by US groups, industry executives have argued, as revenues come under pressure from low-cost passive funds and as regulation and costs mount. Private equity groups have also been snapping up wealth managers, with demand for financial advice on the rise.

"It's no surprise we're seeing more M&A in our industry," said Tim Campbell, chief executive of Baillie Gifford. "Rising costs and relentless fee pressure are compressing margins."

He added: "Clients are also consolidating and moving towards working with managers that can offer a one-stop shop across all asset classes. The largest US managers already have that scale so

'Scale is relevant. You need scale to justify big-tech investment and it gives you shelf-space power'

inevitably they're driving much of the M&A."

Stefan Hoops, chief executive of Deutsche Bank's asset manager DWS, which oversees more than €1tn, said: "Scale is relevant. There will be asset classes in which it's just about pricing. You need scale to justify big-tech investment and it also gives you shelf-space power."

Deeper capital markets in the US give domestic asset managers an advantage in the race to expand into new regions. US-based Nuveen, which is backed by the Teachers Insurance and Annuities Association, this year bought Schroders, one of Europe's largest asset managers, for £9.9bn to create a \$2.5tn fund group.

George Gatch, chief executive of US-based JPMorgan Asset Management, which has \$4.3tn in assets, said scale had "become a dominant factor" in achieving "success" in the industry.

In contrast, US asset managers are winning a greater share of European assets and now manage nearly half of European assets at 47 per cent, up from 40 per cent five years ago, according to Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel.

“Europe’s fund industry has undergone a decade-long structural shift in favour of US managers,” said Jinesh Shah, associate director of ISS Market Intelligence. He noted US groups such as BlackRock and Vanguard had been “propelled by their consolidation of the region’s [exchange traded funds] market, now 64 per cent under American control”.

Financials

Mortgage lender UWM accepts \$2bn lifeline amid bad trade and falling shares

AKILA QUINIO, SUJEET INDAP, JOSHUA FRANKLIN AND ANTOINE GARA — NEW YORK

Phoenix Suns NBA team owner and mortgage finance billionaire Mat Ishbia took to YouTube this month to deliver an upbeat analysis of the housing market from his company's office basketball court.

Three days later, the head of United Wholesale Mortgage revealed that a bad bet tied to falling interest rates dealt it a \$603mn loss.

UWM, one of America's two biggest mortgage lenders by originations, also revealed it had agreed a \$2.1bn capital injection led by distressed debt investor Oaktree Capital Management, with Ishbia stumping up at least \$150mn.

The swiftly arranged deal failed to stem selling in the company's shares, which fell 30 per cent last week and are down nearly 90 per cent since its 2021 US public market listing.

"We just had to make the call to cut our losses and take the hit," UWM board member Robert Verdun said, referring to the crunch decision to raise fresh capital. He emphasised that he had "zero concerns about the future of the business". Verdun is also chief executive of Scaling Up, an executive coaching company.

The events, which prompted UWM to cede two board seats to Oaktree, has laid bare the strains in a group at the heart of America's \$13tn mortgage market and the vehicle that has transformed Ishbia from a financial executive to the owner of an NBA franchise. It also marked a personal setback for Ishbia, an eccentric executive known for his heated rivalry with Dan Gilbert, the billionaire founder of UWM's arch-rival Rocket Mortgage.

UWM, once a small lender founded in the Detroit area, has expanded rapidly since Ishbia took over from his father in 2013 as specialist mortgage firms filled the gap left by banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. As it aggressively pursued market share, the company reshaped industry dynamics by forcing mortgage brokers to choose between doing business with them or Rocket.

In 2021, Ishbia took his group public through a blank-cheque merger to shore up its finances after wild swings in government debt markets triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic nearly upended UWM.

After the listing, Ishbia used his roughly 80 per cent ownership of UWM to back an even bolder bet. His new wealth helped him in 2023 lead a \$4bn purchase of the Phoenix Suns, who have struggled on the court despite expensive stars such as Kevin Durant, whom Ishbia signed for his team. The Detroit Pistons' former standout player Isiah Thomas serves on the UWM board.

Ishbia had pledged UWM shares as part of five loans from JPMorgan totalling \$2.3bn, US regulatory filings show.

The hundreds of millions of dollars in annual dividends Ishbia earned from his stake in UWM have been crucial to investments in the Phoenix Suns, according to a person familiar with its finances.

Those quarterly dividends, which remained at 10 cents a share from the time the group went public until they were suspended this month, have proven a sticking point for investors. Oaktree now has the ultimate say over the dividend policy as part of its agreement to inject capital into UWM.

A “big part of the problem” at UWM was its dividends, said Bose George, managing director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods – of which “more than 80 per cent went to owner Mat Ishbia”.

The recent wobbles have raised the stakes for Ishbia, a 46-year-old Michigan native known for his motivational speeches, as he seeks to dominate the world's biggest mortgage market.

UWM posted a year-on-year drop in loan origination volumes in the second quarter at a time when persistently high interest rates and elevated home prices are weighing on house sales.

With that backdrop, mortgage lenders have sought to expand their servicing businesses, which handle day-to-day management of home loans, as those tend to become more lucrative when rates are higher.

Rocket Mortgage last year bought the country's largest servicing business, Mr


United Wholesale Mortgage posted a \$452mn loss in the second quarter

Cooper Group, in a \$14.2bn transaction. Ishbia had plotted a similar deal this year, with UWM planning to buy Two Harbors, a large mortgage servicer.

As part of that effort, UWM assembled a portfolio of derivatives set to gain value in the event of falling interest rates. This was designed as a way to protect UWM's eventual takeover of Two Harbors, since mortgage-servicing companies lose out when rates fall.

The strategy backfired when UWM lost the deal to rival bidder CrossCountry Mortgage in March, and as US bond yields have risen sharply this year as President Donald Trump's war in Iran stokes a fresh bout of inflation.

UWM this month filed a lawsuit against Two Harbors in US federal court, seeking \$500mn in damages over an alleged breach of the merger contract. Two Harbors did not respond to a request for comment.

"The market moved against us, and it's a one-time event that won't happen again," Ishbia told investors. UWM posted a net loss of \$452mn in the second quarter.

"They were hedging an asset they hadn't purchased yet, the deal fell apart so they ended up with a hedge that had no offset," said George.

The deal's collapse left Ishbia in a precarious position. The company agreed to Oaktree's financing terms, which did not come cheap. Oaktree and Ishbia purchased \$1.5bn and \$150mn of preferred stock, respectively. In exchange, the investors are set to receive 10 per cent in cash annually or 13 per cent if the company prefers to pay interest in more preferred stock.

Oaktree and Ishbia will also get warrants allowing them to buy hundreds of millions of shares at a premium to the UWM trading price. Oaktree and Ishbia also separately agreed to backstop a \$400mn common stock offering.

Verdun said UWM had held talks with other investors and considered a limited \$500mn capital injection from Ishbia, but decided on Oaktree to “fortify for the next decade instead of right now” and because of the firm’s knowledge of mortgage-servicing rights.

Oaktree has secured various “consent” rights that give the firm specific oversight over the management of the mortgage-servicing rights, according to securities filings and persons familiar with the deal. “It’s market [rate] for where we’re at and the situation,” said board member Verdun. “It’s not inexpensive financing, I won’t sugarcoat it.”

High asset prices, not low rates, are driving inflation

Brij Khurana Markets Insight

P

erhaps there is no better example of the K-shaped nature of the US economy than the fact that employee compensation has fallen to

50 per cent of GDP, its lowest level since 1947, while household net worth is close to an all-time high of 546 per cent relative to GDP.

This dichotomy helps explain the resurgence of socialism among younger Americans. Gen Z depends disproportionately on wages, whose purchasing power has been eroded by inflation, while baby boomers hold much of the country's accumulated wealth.

It is this wealth effect that is increasingly responsible for the inflation that remains in the US economy. Excluding shelter, core inflation has been relatively stable at about 2 per cent for the past three years.

The stickiest components of inflation are related to housing, restaurants, travel and other services where demand is tied to wealth. If Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh is committed to bringing inflation to target, he will need to slow the growth in asset prices.

High stock prices are not a problem if justified by fundamentals, but returns are increasingly driven by abundant Fed liquidity and corporate borrowing. Reducing the Fed's balance sheet, addressing bank capital rules and making clear to markets that the Fed "put" — the assumption that it will rescue investors from large losses — is very out of the money is the best way to slow the wealth effect and tackle persistent inflation.

Historically, the Fed dealt with high inflation by raising short-term interest rates. But today, wealth distribution in the US makes this tool much less effective. In fact, short-term interest rates might already be restrictive to the real economy. The latest employment report showed negative job growth, while private payrolls are growing at only 0.5 per cent annually. The only reason unemployment has not risen is because labour supply has weakened alongside demand. The Fed can still credibly argue the labour market is not the reason inflation is above target.

At the same time, the stock market is at all-time highs and artificial intelligence groups are raising hundreds of billions of dollars despite huge uncertainty over the eventual return on that investment. Monetary policy is clearly

This year, US money supply has grown at almost double the pace of the previous two years

not restrictive to financial markets.

It is here where the other arrows in the Fed's quiver — its balance sheet, regulatory powers, communication methods — can help deal with asset-price-driven inflation.

First, the Fed should resume shrinking its balance sheet. It made a mistake in December by expanding it, rather than raising reserves in a more targeted way. This year, US money supply has grown at almost double the pace of the previous two years, supporting reflationary assets such as stocks and exacerbating wealth-effect-driven inflation.

The Fed should do so by letting its Treasury and mortgage securities run off. While it still makes sense to have ample reserves, it should target the lowest level wherever possible and only temporarily inject liquidity to address money-market volatility.

Second, the Fed should use its regulatory capabilities to encourage AI-related borrowing through the banking system rather than the private credit ecosystem. Sceptics might argue it is better that the unknown risks of AI financing be kept outside the banking system, but this means the Fed is far less able to restrain lending when signs of froth emerge, as they have with the various multibillion-dollar circular financing arrangements that have come about in recent months. These AI deals are raising systemic risk, boosting asset prices and contributing to wealth effect-driven inflation. The Fed should raise the capital ratio for loans to private credit and encourage lending via more formal and regulated channels.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Warsh needs to convince markets that the Fed “put” is far out of the money. While Warsh has focused on the size of the Fed’s balance sheet, the bigger problem has been its willingness to use it aggressively at any sign of trouble.

Warsh should communicate the limited circumstances under which it will now use its balance sheet and emergency lending powers. The Fed should remain the lender of last resort, but return to Walter Bagehot's prescription of lending freely, at a high rate, on good collateral.

The remaining inflation in the US economy is being driven by the wealth effect, not by interest rates being too low. The Fed will need to address asset prices head-on in creative ways if it is going to return inflation to target.

Brij Khurana is a fixed-income portfolio manager at Wellington Management

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Gold rose as much as 1.7 per cent to just over \$4,680 a troy ounce, while bitcoin rose 3.1 per cent.


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The price of gold hit a three-month high yesterday, amid investor concerns that the US government's efforts to bring down long-term borrowing costs could lead to a weaker dollar.

- Gold climbs on investors' concerns about potential for weaker dollar - Oil prices dip as Washington prepares new financial offensive against Iran - FTSE 100 up $0.4\%$ as Hang Seng falls $1.9\%$ in mixed Europe and Asia trading

The US Treasury's announcement last week that it would "at least" double its purchases of long-term government debt has pushed some investors into so-called debasement trades, in which they buy assets expected to benefit from a weakening dollar.

"The main fallout from attempts of yield curve control, whether successful or not, should be a weaker dollar," wrote Mohit Kumar, chief European economist at Jefferies. "We would not be surprised if we see more measures beyond the buybacks over the coming weeks."

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The gains in gold and bitcoin came even as the US dollar rose 0.2 per cent against a basket of other currencies, although it remains close to the three-month low hit last week.

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Oil prices dipped as investors waited for details of US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent's plan to inflict an "economic D-Day" on Iran. Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, fell 1.9 per cent to trade around \$92.62 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark,

fell 2 per cent to \$85.36 a barrel. Bessent wrote on Sunday that Washington was preparing “the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary”, as talks between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz remained at a standstill.

The retreat in oil prices relieved some of the pressure on US government borrowing costs. The 10-year Treasury yield fell 0.04 percentage points to 4.7 per cent and the 30-year yield fell 0.06 percentage points to 5.22 per cent.

The Nasdaq 100 was down 0.7 per cent by lunchtime on Wall Street. Sandisk was down 7 per cent and Micron Technology was 6 per cent lower. The slide in tech stocks helped push the S&P 500 down 0.2 per cent.

European and Asian stock markets were mixed. Germany's Dax fell 0.1 per cent and France's Cac-40 lost 0.4 per cent. The FTSE 100 rose 0.4 per cent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 1.9 per cent and Japan's Topix edged up 0.2 per cent.

The euro fell 0.1 per cent against the dollar to \$1.166, while the pound was flat at \$1.364. The 10-year gilt yield and the 10-year Bund yield were little changed. Madeleine Wright

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Morgan Stanley and Schroders back Australia's largest venture capital round

NIC FILDES — SYDNEY

Morgan Stanley and Schroders have participated in Australia and New Zealand's largest venture capital round after backing technology investor Blackbird Ventures' latest fund.

Blackbird, which has carved a reputation as an early-stage investor in a number of the region's breakout tech start-ups including graphics software developer Canva and fintech Airwallex, has closed a A\$1.05bn (\$750mn) fund that marks the largest amount raised for the region's venture capital sector.

The round was backed by existing Blackbird investors including superannuation funds and Australia's sovereign wealth fund but also by a number of international funds including Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Schroders and Adams Street Partners as the appeal of Australian and New Zealand tech has grown in stature.

Blackbird partner Samantha Wong told the FT that international investors had historically assumed that businesses founded in the region would be limited to the local market.

But the success of companies such as telehealth provider Eucalyptus, which was sold to a US rival for A\$1.6bn this year, and autonomous-driving start-up Zoox, which was sold to Amazon in 2020 for A\$1.5bn, had “definitively” proved this was no longer the case.

"These are logos that we're not really seeing elsewhere in other venture port-"

‘These are logos that we’re not really seeing elsewhere in other venture portfolios’

Samantha Wong, Blackbird partner

folios," she said of the international growth potential coming out of Australia and New Zealand's start-up sector.

Blackbird has traditionally made early-stage investments in emerging companies with global potential. It has since “doubled down” on those stakes with follow-on investments.

In the case of Canva, it originally invested A\$250,000 and has maintained its position as the software company's biggest external investor – with a stake of about 10 per cent – as the business has grown in value.

Canva, which has been lined up as a potential Nasdaq initial public offering candidate, is now valued at \$35bn internally by Blackbird, lower than the \$42bn value attributed last year.

More recent investments include New Zealand agricultural technology company Halter and AI infrastructure group Baseten co-founded by Australian mathematicians.

At \$143mn, the investment in Baseten is the largest single cheque that Blackbird has written, and is part of a fund-raise valuing the start-up at \$13bn, according to Wong.

The Blackbird round is the latest foreign-backed fundraising for Australia's small venture capital industry after US institutional investors backed a \$420mn Airtree Ventures fund last year.

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Day ▷ -0.22% Month ▷ 1.72% Year ▷ -5.65%
Day 0.22% Month 2.84% Year 21.36%


Day 0,66% Month -1.10% Year 27,97%
Stock Market movements over last 30 days, with the FTSE All-World in the same currency as a comparison

WORLD MARKETS AT A GLANCE

Change during previous day's trading (%)

MARKET DATA

FTSE EuroFirst

0.03%

Effective 07.11.2025

Jul 24 - Aug 24IndexAll World
S&P 500New York

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
AustraliaAll Ordinaries9316.709269.70
AustraliaS&P ASX 2509103.109058.90
AustraliaS&P ASX 200 Res8492.508304.70
AustriaATX6817.526621.80
BelgiumBELT 25811.505607.1
BelgiumBEL Mid6578.186564.36
BrazilBovespa172556.18171031.73
CanadaS&P TSX 602146.852144.95
CanadaS&P TSX Comp36804.9736620.23
ChileS&P/FLX 20PIA 52/N5769.6657028.69
ChinaChina TSSE 420011445.3211467.5
ChinaChina Shanghai 514070.254094.63
ChinaChina Shanghai B282.80280.77
ChinaChina Shanghai Comp3862.013905.20
ChinaShenzhen A2612.982657.30
ChinaShenzhen B1195.651149.63
CroatiaCROEX4487.514423.45
CyprusCSE M&G 1295317.23317.54

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
Czech RepublicCzech Republic PX2794.432784.64
DenmarkOMAC Copenhagen 201641.011634.37
EgyptEDX 3055164.9055350.40
EstoniaOMX Tallinn2158.322147.13
FranceOMX Stockholm General13408.881249.10
FranceSwiss CAC408463.018464.43
SerbiaSBF 1206336.816420.46
GermanyMX-DAX32031.5532110.41
GermanyTec-Dex4049.234080.64
GreeceKETRA Dex26188.0026138.00
GreeceASAN263.173024.24
GreeceFTSE/ASEA6272.846733.94
Hong KongHang Seng25517.3328009.46
Hong KongHS China Enterprises8471.368634.34
Hong KongHSCC Red Chip4247.634292.35
HungaryBASF10150.00148059.01
IrelandBSF Sensex77369.1177540.83
IndonesiaJakarta Comp6501.676025.69

Day ▶ -0.37% Month ▶ 6.29% Year ▶ 6.62%
EURO MARKETS

STOCK MARKET: BIGGEST MOVERS

AMERICA
ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m'sclose priceDay's change
Nvidia61.84210.68-4.04
Intel53.4797.73-2.34
Super Micro Computer24.3135.60-
Moderna20.87138.69-
Tesla18.67356.92-5.94
Micron Technology16.99918.65-48.13
Walmart16.76105.211.51
Palantir13.94177.50-2.44
Amazon.com13.83262.744.11
Apple12.93311.892.54
BIGGEST MOVERSCloseDay'sDay's
ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m/sclose priceDay's change
Lloyds Big Gp73.941.12-
Glencore72.005.93-0.04
Barclays38.904.950.03
Legal & General35.032.880.04
Anglo American29.7641.180.51
Vodafone29.341.180.01
Mire Group28.032.090.01
BP24.865.34-0.16
Beasley24.0712.96-
Investec21.946.36-0.01
BIGGEST MOWERSCloseDay'sDay's
ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m'sclose priceDay's change
Stellantis44.494.42-0.22
Intesa Sanpaolo24.566.820.05
Banco Santander17.9812.700.15
Banco De Sabadell17.023.71-
Enel11.149.520.02
Nokia11.048.58-0.18
Royal KPN7.814.080.01
Eni7.3323.54-0.60
Svenska Handelsenk A5.06144.55-
Banco BPM5.0016.30-
BROSOFT MANVERSCloseDailyDay's
CountryIndexLatestPrevious
IrelandISED Overall14290.0114186.95
IsraelTel Aviv 1254014.954059.40
ItalyFTSE Italia All-Share55145.7155273.31
ItalyFTSE Italia Mid-Cap61455.1761268.22
ItalyFTSE S&P 50032542.1632686.65
JapanNikkei 22565528.0966016.36
JapanTokio4073.294067.29
KuwaitKXK Market Index9105.459108.40
LatviaOMX Riga944.02943.05
LithuaniaOMX Vilnius1556.591558.08
LuxembourgLux1954.061948.71
MexicoIPC Mexico City50586.6265729.18
MalaysiaFTSE Bursa KLCI1736.321736.48
MoroccoMASI19124.1818992.40
NetherlandsAEX1109.951105.97
PolandAEX All Share1507.371508.08
New ZealandNZX 5013881.8813972.66
NigeriaSE All Share23985.1723051.16

Hang Seng

ACTIVE STOCKSstock traded m'sclose priceDay's change
Nippon Tel & Tel201.00166.500.40
SoftBank Corp61.71235.001.20
Fujikure52.005016.00-264.00
Tokyo Electric Power42.21536.00-13.30
SoftBank Grp Corp35.124975.00-280.00
Taiyo Yuden32.799149.00-151.00
Nippon Steel32.64666.106.70
Nissan Motor Co24.56334.00-2.00
Furukawa Electric23.543625.00-193.00
Mitsubishi UFJ22.293481.00-27.00

FTSE All World

Jul 24 - Aug 24IndexAll World
Xetra DaxFrankfurt

Day ▷ -0.24% Month ▷ 1.44% Year ▷ 22.17%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
NorwayOslo All-Share2477.862468.92
PakistanKSE 100176966.68177168.52
PhilippinesManila Corp6251.386238.46
PolandWig151058.76155911.92
PortugalP3 209391.969324.49
PortugalPSI General6331.726350.89
RomaniaRomania BET Index36474.4536437.39
RussiaRussia Traded Index in USD988.10988.10
Saudi ArabiaTADAMUL All Share Index11174.1311076.68
SingaporeFTSE Strade Times5680.465688.96
SlovakiaTCS 25326.05326.05
SloveniaSIB TOP3188.753213.78
South AfricaFTSE/JSE All Share116712.04117747.80
South AfricaFTSE/JSE Res76249.827635.81
South AfricaFTSE/JSE Top 40159389.61110287.07
South KoreaKospi6936.966912.05
South KoreaKoqo 2001054.011096.25
SpainSpain BEX 3520098.6019961.50

UK MARKET WINNERS & LOSERS

BIGGEST MOVERSClose priceDay's changeDay's change%
Ups
AP Moller-Maersk A21540.00800.003.86
AP Moller-Maersk B22430.00810.003.75
Covabank13.270.282.20
Beiersdorf61.281.682.11
Deutsche Bank33.050.682.10
Downs
Stellantis4.42-0.22-4.77
Infineon Technologies54.16-1.81-3.23
Repsol27.09-0.90-3.22
Siemens Energy148.74-4.82-3.01
Rheinmetall1125.20-30.20-2.61
FTSE 100price(£)% Chg week% Chg ytd
Winners
Endascor47.7313.7823.27
Antofagasta39.729.8521.13
Croda International34.689.7528.68
Fresnillo32.009.21-4.02
Weir28.787.711.12
Rio Tinto76.667.5827.89
RELX26.527.37-12.19
Glencore5.937.1045.89
Unilever47.835.98-1.58
Experian29.635.86-11.89
BROZEST MOVERSClose priceDay's changeDay's change %
Ups
Sumitomo Metal Mining11475.00715.006.84
Hitachi Const Mach6005.00361.006.40
Komatsu7414.00349.004.94
Sumitomo Heavy Ind5888.00273.004.86
Recruit Hldgs16515.00615.003.87
Downs
SoftBank Grp Corp4875.00-280.00-5.33
Furukawa Electric3825.00-193.00-5.05
Fujikura9216.00-264.00-5.00
Advantest34500.00-1400.00-3.90
Tokyo Electric Power536.00-13.30-2.42

Day ▶ -0.59% Month ▶ 1.78% Year ▶ 2.94%

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
SwedenDMX Stockholm 303290.843292.34
SwedenDMX Stockholm AS1138.661139.67
SwitzerlandSWI Index14447.1914456.98
TaiwanWeighted Stock Index44762.3245234.29
ThailandBovespa 50ETF1612.051613.24
TurkeyBIST 10014501.4914514.62
UKFTSE 10010856.3210816.56
UKFTSE 400d UK9450.529399.14
UKFTSE All Share5850.425832.63
UKFTSE w/w Midw 100953.02956.24
U.S.A.Dow Jones Composite16858.6416941.86
U.S.A.Dow Jones Industrial53029.6953277.01
U.S.A.Dow Jones Transport21331.8121570.26
U.S.A.Dow Jones Utilities424.70421.26
U.S.A.Nasdaq 10029100.0629308.86
U.S.A.Nasdaq Composite26305.4526185.45
U.S.A.NYSE Composite24679.1324728.67
U.S.A.S&P 5007659.747674.37

Losers
Polar CapTech6.24-8.1134.38
Babcock Intl10.81-8.11-12.99
Melrose Ind4.62-6.34-21.48
BAE SYSTEMS20.97-6.2222.35
JD Sports Fashion0.85-5.021.23
Legal & General2.88-4.5710.04
Investec6.36-4.2215.23
Rolls-Royce15.00-4.0730.45
Halma35.54-4.000.45
Barclays4.95-3.894.08
FTSE 250price(E)% Chg week% Chg ytd
Winners
Oxford Nanopore Technologies1.6734.3329.83
Kainos Group12.5428.9524.90
Pan African Res1.3721.9113.14
Hochschild Mining6.3019.7722.69
Gamma Communications10.9512.4818.51
Ithaca Energy2.7110.7963.45
Ataiaya Mining Copper10.109.1918.13
AEP Plantations1.958.3342.34
THG0.347.80-25.05
Michael Paige2.217.18-6.12

FT.COM/MARKETSDATA

£ per €

Pricechangechange/%
Ups
Playtech4.120.205.15
Pollen Street Group8.780.313.66
WPP4.000.133.36
ME Group1.250.043.14
B&M European Value2.440.073.05
Downs
CMC Market7.09-0.34-4.58
Goodwin180.20-7.00-3.74
Oxford Biomedica5.09-0.17-3.23
Kazoa Group12.54-0.40-3.09
Oxford Instruments27.60-0.86-3.02
Stocks (Millions)
pricechangechange%
Ups
Atria68.592.503.78
Target170.434.993.02
Yun Brands157.324.332.83
Chipotle Mexican37.931.032.79
Dollar Tree135.143.662.78
Downs
Seagate Tech799.89-50.11-5.90
Western Digital435.86-23.58-5.13
Micron Technology918.65-48.13-4.98
HP Inc28.68-1.03-3.47
Ford Motor13.91-0.49-3.44

Oil Brent \$

CountryIndexLatestPrevious
VenezuelaIBC5924.265864.56
VietnamViet Nam Index1788.781768.12
Cross-BorderEuro Stoxx 50 (Eur)6447.986462.22
NetherlandsRussell 100 (D1932.871938.94
Cross-BorderFTSE 400d Global ($)21312.7521364.43
Cross-BorderFTSE All World ($)754.48756.99
Cross-BorderFTSE €3002615.482614.74
Cross-BorderFTSE Eurotop 1005062.005064.86
Cross-BorderFTSE Global 100 ($)5703.765738.78
Cross-BorderFTSE Gold Min ($)8594.608594.60
Cross-BorderFTSE Latibet Top (Eur)6137.006008.20
Cross-BorderFTSE World ($)1408.871413.02
Cross-BorderFTSEurofirst 100 (Eur)7240.567240.25
Cross-BorderFTSEurofirst 80 (Eur)8764.588781.41

CURRENCIES

Losers
18Trainline1.94-20.85-12.16
19Hunting3.94-19.866.21
18Raspberry Pi Holdings5.93-12.7297.70
15Chemring Group5.58-9.7818.10
23Goodwin180.20-8.15-15.40
14Avon Technologies17.78-7.68-1.96
23Keller Group28.58-7.5771.55
25JPMorgan Japanese IT8.00-7.0815.94
15DR.Martens0.81-6.905.74
18Alliance Tech6.85-6.6829.96
FTSE Small Capprice(E)% Chg week% Chg ytd
Winners
Tullow Oil0.2028.94238.02
The Smelter Web Company0.3522.828.46
Capital1.1815.693.51
Geiger Counter0.866.7710.33
Kennaro Resources2.086.67-15.79
EnQuest0.265.92144.81
CGS Natural Res Gwth & Inc4.295.6720.85
Ebara Royalties1.694.9647.56
Pinewood Tech G4.484.9225.14
CT UK High Income Trust1.224.278.93
Industry Sectorsprice(£)%Chg week%Chg ytd
Winners
Precious Metals & Mining38692.0314.0112.39
Biotechnology21058.668.86-4.43
Basic Materials10999.707.2930.84
Industrial Metals & Mining9935.846.8133.90
Software & Computer Svcs1928.116.26-5.67
Technology1685.936.14-5.41
Personal Care Drug & Grocery4607.774.47-2.38
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech23781.484.15-7.24
Finance & Credit Services14214.204.14-1.85
Health Care16645.013.89-7.26
Losers
2.16Ashhead Technology3.56-18.1614.84
1.21Mobico Group0.23-12.65
1.70Gulf Marine Services0.18-8.36-5.54
1.10Crest Nicholson Holdings0.65-7.65-54.56
1.40The Beauty Tech Group3.40-5.8217.24
1.98Speedy Hire0.18-5.80-26.00
1.55Manchester & London Inv Tst9.72-5.6321.65
1.94Future3.03-5.19-42.41
1.74JPMorgan US Smaller Cos Inv Tst4.34-4.828.62
1.99Castings3.03-4.7211.40

FTSE ACTUARIES SHARE INDICES

Losers
1.84Techn Hardware & Equip119.79-12.72 97.71
Alternative Energy42.10-5.87 91.46
5.54Aerospace & Defense24856.97-4.93 23.81
5.56Electronic & Electrical Equip14719.17-2.74 15.45
7.24Industrials12065.07-2.67 15.35
5.00Construction & Materials15504.85-2.19 13.24
5.65Automobiles & Parts854.92-1.86 -40.24
2.41Banks9486.29-1.47 19.70
3.62Consumer Services4029.11-1.35 -2.64
4.40Closed End Investments15160.49-1.03 10.04
Aug 24Closing MidDOLLARClosing MidDOLLAREUROPOUND
Day's ChangeWeek's ChangeDay's ChangeWeek's ChangeDay's ChangeWeek's ChangeDay's ChangeWeek's Change
Argentine Peso1508.352410.246818.50591757.195326.270023.70002593.701313.4671
Brazilian Real1.00110.00110.00031.63060.00120.00141.80540.0039
Bahraini Dinar0.37700.43990.00440.00440.0141
Bolivian Boliviano11.5000-0.2600-0.260013.4100-0.2636-0.263615.4707-0.2650
Brazilian Sint Ma5.1474-0.2108-0.04698.00040.11460.1146-0.0183-0.0183
Canadian Dollar1.38390.0056-0.00711.61440.00570.00701.86930.0104
Chilean Peso915.2700-0.6889-0.68891051.54509.50319.50311255.29509.2901
Chinese Yuan8.1237-0.0213-0.02137.84390.05270.56279.18750.0492
Czech Koruna3502.1800-10.8000-10.80003501.3175-46.1977-46.19774192.317920.6965
Colombian Peso448.6400-1.1100-1.1100534.5386-3.4624-3.4624613.34983.5935
Czech Kronse20.0360-0.0360-0.236024.1615-0.1035-0.103528.1844-0.2176
Swedish Kronse6.40400.0040-0.04007.4970-3.0001-3.00018.88220.0117
Egyptian Pound50.73000.0000-0.000058.19161.56021.560266.17091.7831
Hong Kong Dollar7.8365-0.0037-0.00869.1423-0.0098-0.009210.68490.0029
Indian Rupee311.1400-4.2972-4.2972303.5300-1.1930-1.193053.4330-2.2058
Indian Japanese Yen95.74830.03300.1350111.8976-0.02760.0318130.54520.1417
ChangeChangeDOLLAREURChangePOUND
MidDay's ChangeWeeks ChangeMidDay's ChangeWeeks ChangeMidDay's ChangeWeeks Change
37.415%Indonesian Russian1,777,00020.0000-115.00002060.4800151.6500151.650024416.700044.5690-10.0330
0.000%Swedish Krona3.00100.01420.00033.50100.14150.06440.00210.01240.0124
Japanese Yen139.19300.2300-0.1000159.75990.15711.1418217.50450.47261.1959
-0.250%Kuwaiti Sterling129.4000--150.59811.48021.4802176.40351.46171.4617
-0.07%Nestle6.3895--6.3998-0.00830.00234.02580.00950.0088
0.007%Malaysian Russian8.42450.0040-0.01608.7160-0.0099-0.00995.51180.00950.0088
0.000%Russian Prime196.9290.0459-0.0691196.7899-0.1018-0.1018-1.21910.08530.0853
0.046%New Zealand Dollar1.67830.0037-0.17391.85780.0031-0.00332.28630.0066-0.0051
-86.544%Nimana Zin1341.5880-14.1300-13.14301512.2955-8.8116-8.81161873.5075-3.6932-3.6932
0.000%Russian Ruble9.30740.0825-0.117510.6836-0.0191-0.019112.8351-0.0191-0.0191
-0.2176%Pakistan Rupee277.4750--0.0500323.7024-0.1942-2.1341378.32330.27742.2075
0.000%Russian Sain2.9482-0.0372-0.02723.3833-0.00710.00710.68740.00160.6874
1.735%Philippine Thai61.75200.08250.228072.08441.84761.847684.19500.14690.8179
0.052%Polish Zloty3.6915-0.0312-0.03124.30850.00850.00855.03320.00020.0002
0.000%Peru Malta4.9252-0.0327-0.03275.29480.01370.01371.61650.00020.0002
0.966%Russian Rupiah83.6380-1.0000-1.000097.52792.11652.1165113.98452.30932.3093
£ StrngApr 24Day'schg%EuroIndex£ StrngAug 21£ StrngDec 20YearagoDivYieldP/E ratioX/Dadj.($)TotalReturn
FTSE 100 (000)1089.630.151089.631089.631089.631089.631089.63-0.07-0.071089.63
FTSE 100 ex Investment Trusts (Bk)3552.490.373236.513539.543517.353251.793.072.0915.5686.29
FTSE 250 (050)2417.41-0.082251.6224178.8224536.6622470.383.072.5412.80524.41
FTSE 335 ex Inv Co (104)2571.670.062341.0525762.0225433.2323204.183.061.8519.68564.78
FTSE 335 ex Inv Co (104)591.210.04549.13591.21591.21591.213.061.8519.68564.78
FTSE 350 ex Investment Trusts (209)5850.700.345330.305830.755792.625351.903.072.0615.62141.00
FTSE 350 High Yield (103)5234.720.364769.105215.795183.264626.854.181.9212.43160.92
FTSE 350 Mid-Cap Growth (105)5944.000.105697.506044.005944.005619.003.071.9112.43160.92
FTSE SmallCap (183)8154.00-0.107465.168322.618151.217537.893.791.4418.42196.13
FTSE SmallCap ex Co (to Inc) (2)6755.30-0.136154.436764.406725.596306.893.570.5947.66136.05
FTSE SmallCap financing Income ex Co (12)155.640.11148.53155.46154.31155.065.071.5512.7338.87
FTSE SmallCap ex Capital Ex (2)5851.00-0.015497.285851.005851.005851.003.071.8412.73138.64
FTSA All Share ex Co (to Sdn)5743.070.345322.245723.875686.275253.923.082.5515.89138.27
FTSE Fledgling (Hk)1248.160.181137.5112464.3012470.5012362.634.89-2.57-1.54208.31
FTSE Fledgling ex Inv Co (to Sdn)1637.240.141539.241637.241539.241539.243.071.8412.73138.64
FTSA Small (023)5619.94-0.105173.825684.575609.365246.473.811.3325.59135.15
FTSA Small ex Inv Co (to Sdn)5024.98-0.134614.475071.515024.414745.493.602.4463.57103.41
FTSA Small ex Inv Co (to Sdn)815.400.01778.80815.40799.80778.803.601.8412.73138.64
FTSA Small Technology (30)2050.511.011868.122025.962037.392154.292.431.8123.0244.35
FTSA Small Metastockeers (5)2116.470.601592.282103.542098.271838.123.330.8037.6141.30
FTSA Small Health Care (1)16476.79-0.7515011.2116601.7916494.8217187.222.432.3917.47355.09
FTSA Small Health Care (1)8745.67-0.678399.898745.678745.678745.672.432.3917.47355.09
FTSA Small Real Estate (40)832.270.15753.21831.01824.27719.494.641.1618.5527.22
FTSA Small Business Continental (8)8139.760.865933.658307.488245.706937.332.511.9620.31113.06
FTSA Small Business Properties (2)2013.790.291888.892013.792013.792013.793.071.8412.73138.64
FTSA Small Industry (19)12568.61-0.1911450.6612592.1112570.1210288.921.502.2632.37149.02
FTSA Small Basic Materials (2)11848.640.3310366.8211855.2211573.109108.692.452.2320.33256.94
FTSA Small Energy (13)11086.63-1.1510109.7911326.3611375.418801.273.762.5510.41217.53
FTSA Small Financial Services (1)1099.990.09999.991099.991099.99999.993.762.5510.41217.53
FTSA Small Software & Consumer Secs (1)2221.511.032233.922198.612174.432341.562.421.8122.8446.43
FTSA Small Health Devices & Equip (2)3629.29-1.443306.473662.443674.712276.410.00-0.00133.1550.97
FTSA Small Health Care Companies (2)3200.00-0.053100.003200.003190.003190.00-0.05-0.05133.1550.97
FTSA Small Health Care Providers (2)11123.32-0.2710133.5311153.4011239.438413.291.051.7953.3726.78
FTSA Small Medical Equipment & Servic (2)5480.091.084939.165422.305432.946175.002.612.1317.99105.27
FTSA Small Industrial (1)2317.17-0.042288.882317.172317.172317.17-0.04-0.0417.99105.27
FTSA Small Banks (13)9360.930.698528.309296.549204.937620.313.542.6110.94303.12
FTSA Small Finance & Credit Services (1)12281.442.5911170.8111926.0211870.0812532.512.001.8726.65244.47
FTSA Small Banking & Breeder Services (2)13655.670.6812441.0413536.2313298.1713237.982.642.879.56361.28
FTSA Small Life Insurance (1)15441.78-0.4414798.8815441.7815441.7815441.78-0.44-0.4415.47154.78
FTSA Small Life Insurance (5)8522.261.707949.698405.088352.508254.184.681.2517.11304.68
FTSA Small Finance Insurance (3)6810.690.736204.876716.566717.575171.053.951.2520.18176.39
FTSA Small Finance & Consumer Services (2)12774.88-0.4412449.8812774.8812774.8812774.88-0.44-0.4417.99105.27
FTSA Small Real Estate Investment Trusts (4)2098.440.201909.972092.212077.571926.135.011.1118.0073.91
FTSA Small Automobiles & Parts (1)859.30-1.40792.67871.52880.171437.940.00-0.00-0.760.00
FTSA Small Construction Services (2)3766.921.203452.083744.113722.833889.562.221.7725.4094.26
FTSA Small Automotive & Chemical (6)7081.78-0.686666.686766.686766.686766.68-0.68-0.6817.43147.43
FTSA Small Leisure Goods (2)46486.49-0.634251.6446390.3246849.6647968.762.841.3326.50682.02
FTSA Small Financial Goods (3)15151.810.4113843.0815036.2915036.4415072.832.151.7534.0712.25
FTSA Small Real Estate Investment Trusts (4)12799.88-0.2912099.9712799.8812799.8812799.88-0.29-0.2912.75127.75
FTSA Small Retailers (19)2814.21-0.012563.892814.522777.942591.682.592.8313.6548.66
FTSA Small Trade & Leisure (1)10210.111.489001.9510301.0510312.059692.991.681.9731.62148.40
FTSA Small Healthcare Care Services (2)11604.88-0.3610799.9911604.8811604.8811604.88-0.36-0.3616.49284.42
FTSA Small Food Production Trusts (3)6820.030.567473.388151.728088.137556.822.642.5418.57115.21
FTSA Small Tobacco & Protein (1)4545.05-1.484133.0744812.754518.0947515.985.911.3112.94148.54
FTSA Small Construction & Materials (10)16050.35-0.1415619.7016028.6915982.4414300.582.722.2316.49284.42
FTSA Small Health Care Services (2)12785.220.3212742.0612785.7412785.7412785.74-0.32-0.3216.49284.42
FTSA Small Electronics & Electrical Equip (1)17295.220.3217274.0617293.7417693.2214821.050.92-3.5235.94132.24
FTSA Small General Industrials (8)6063.570.835469.575854.125842.535275.722.161.8125.5881.60
FTSA Small Health Care Services (2)13147.99-0.3612799.9913147.9913147.9913147.99-0.36-0.3616.49284.42
FTSA Small Industrial Support Secs (3)10663.360.309714.8810631.2710587.2910512.102.171.4431.74199.79
FTSA Small Industrial Transportation (7)6629.050.236222.366627.676759.075995.933.791.9714.17133.34
FTSA Small Financial Products & Mining (1)36716.470.7433565.0236457.2237038.2132869.132.212.8515.856335.45
FTSA Small Financial Services (2)8886.68-0.288466.688886.688886.688886.68-0.28-0.2815.856335.45
FTSA Small Oil & Gas Inc (2)10773.04-1.169814.8010899.1010896.128705.653.772.5610.38304.05
FTSA Small Alternative Energy (1)1933.030.10191.00193.01186.72934.000.00-0.00-17.490.00
FTSA Small Financial Services (2)13787.99-0.3613447.9913787.9913787.9913787.99-0.36-0.3616.49284.42

FTSE SECTORS: LEADERS & LAGGARDS

Year to date percentage changes
Techn Hardware & Equip57.71
Alternative Energy91.46
Industrial Metals & Mining33.90
Health Care Providers32.21
Nonlife Insurance31.70
Basic Materials30.64
Aerospace & Defense23.81
Energy23.68
Oil Gas & Coal23.59
Banks19.70
Electronic & Electrical Equip15.45
Industrials15.35
Industrial Transportation15.33
Telecommunications Serv Providers15.14
Telecommunications15.14
Chemicals14.84
Financials ex Inv Co14.52
General Industrials13.86
Financials13.78

FTSE GLOBAL INDICES

Aug 21 Regions & countriesNo of stocksUS$ IndicesDaily %ChgYTD %ChgUS$ IndexYTD %ChgDiv Yield
IndexDur yrsFixedTraded
FTSE Global Industries
United States1013.11269.395.043.0313.34291.181.4681.59
Global Large Cap18701197.280.572.9817.822192.971.411.50
Japan&Other12001044.440.442.9817.822181.501.411.50
Global Small Cap56511470.220.263.3514.572279.931.501.71
Global ex Eurozone94981344.480.552.8313.572261.351.481.50
Markit I75824264.580.343.0313.342198.161.411.50
Global ex US8562824.100.444.2214.691657.371.652.40
Naples Asia Pacific98824365.470.543.0314.572198.161.411.50
Global ex Japan87571327.430.383.0013.112309.721.441.57
FTSE Regional Interests
Asia Pacific19861752.590.522.4512.622726.301.311.50
Asia Pacific6321929.440.624.0519.411668.502.151.96
Europe ex Japan4985176.170.903.0314.572107.221.871.97
Europe1452222.290.254.1910.061503.861.872.78
Europe ex UK1221836.110.514.139.971736.501.282.68
Africa ex Japan614133.850.443.0314.571605.471.882.83
AEE Developed Markets
Developed33571317.980.513.0513.672248.381.441.50
Developed ex North America3357787.480.534.5716.431586.071.782.45
Aug 21 Regions & countries
Asia PacificNAUS$Daily %ChgMonthYTD %ChgUS$YTD %ChgGr Div Yield
US$US$US$US$US$

UK RECENT RIGHTS ISSUES

Digital Information Services
Telecom & Computer Services351351.000.987.53-2.074729.75-1.64
Media183830.44-0.0210.50-8.781193.67-8.10
Technology
Smartphones283883.640.05-1.2041.66866.6942.17
Tech Hardware & Equip693679.69-0.16-2.4440.309632.2940.81
Technology12314804.410.271.1020.556045.9521.02
Telecommunications12314804.410.271.1020.556045.9521.02
Telecommunications Equip114577.932.888.2572.878671.7973.99
Telecommunications Serv250598.771.85-0.2333.718177.7110.96
Telecomms Sv Providers145452.601.394.973.221009.796.05
Electronic & Electrical Equip344210.570.183.6024.243057.7425.24
Financials
Financials & Credit Services112933.060.641.92-5.841461.34-4.78
Financials1152738.390.892.1010.231518.4512.67
Banking Real Estate & Services1152738.390.892.1010.231518.4512.67
Bank489534.390.641.6314.561244.1717.53
Other Insurance9971.410.30-0.01-0.011000.00-0.01
Nonlife Insurance1251089.360.521.325.421863.198.30
Inv. Banking & Borrowings Svc344170.941.474.036.602042.587.53
Investment & Financing Svc56149.011.435.150.24137.020.89
Real Estate
Real Estate648982.340.03-0.525.511174.758.01
Real Estate & Commercial Svc115738.390.03-0.525.511174.758.01
Real Estate Investment Trusts319571.600.15-4.971.795666.3312.52
Consumer Goods
Consumer Digital Services98319.420.97-3.29-1.62323.83-1.42
Consumer Discretionary15131230.600.633.06-1.761189.29-0.69
Consumer Staples15131230.600.633.06-1.761189.29-0.69
Consumer Staples8211004.130.420.885.991787.142.33
Retailers2671917.95-0.182.034.392721.324.55
Retailers & Drug & Drug Stores15131230.600.633.06-1.761189.29-0.69
Personal Goods141821.271.13-0.81-10.941271.96-8.02
Personal Care152738.390.00-0.00-0.001000.00-0.41
Travel & Leisure2961255.030.935.361.251805.012.25

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Aug 24DOLLAREUROPOUND
Closing MidDay's ChangeWeek's ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeek's ChangeClosing MidDay's ChangeWeek's Change
Saudi Riyal3.75470.00010.00024.3802-0.00260.25995.11930.00390.0311
Singapore Dollar1.27560.0006-0.00641.4633-0.00010.00271.73230.00210.0019
Sri Lanka rupee1.0000-0.0075-0.007518.6595-0.00190.00711.8458-0.0129-0.0129
South Korea won1381.5000-4.7000-32.87541611.6579-26.5627-26.56271863.8382-5.0802-33.2377
Sri Lanka rupee6.48650.0026-0.00421.03600.0296-0.01991.05680.01120.0036
Swiss franc8.80260.0016-0.00090.95830.0013-0.00171.0943-0.0030-0.0030
Taiwan dollar31.90000.0040-0.054037.2146-0.0157-0.015742.69410.0782-0.0782
Thai Baht32.00000.0100-0.127038.1322-0.0112-0.103844.57130.0444-0.1154
Tunisian Dinar2.9030-0.0020-0.02203.38560.00813.00813.95670.00350.0035
Turkish Lira48.06000.37100.371056.98340.08142.981456.10550.17621.0522
Thai Baht3.6729--4.9844-0.0026-0.00265.89180.00360.0033
Pound Sterling0.7244-0.0005-0.00440.9857-0.0011-0.00071.0000--
United States Dollar1.0000--1.6666-0.0007-0.00392.96100.00160.0002
Switzerland Dinar261.710018.500018.5000383.5450322.5445322.5445596.6888234.6958243.6958
Euro0.85720.0005-0.00091.1626--1.68870.0015-0.0008
13.24Consumer Staples-0.02
13.15Finance & Credit Services-1.85
12.39Personal Care Drug & Grocery-3.38
10.04Consumer Services-2.84
9.32Leisure Goods-2.56
8.57Personal Goods-3.32
7.33Tobacco-4.29
6.72Biotechnology-4.43
5.40Real Estate Investment & Svcs.-5.31
5.26Technology-5.41
4.19Software & Computer Svcs.-5.67
3.78Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.-7.24
3.48Health Care-7.26
2.76Medical Equipment & Svcs.-10.52
2.18Hivid Goods & Home Cost-20.70
1.43Automobiles & Parts.-40.24
Avg. 21No of stocksUS$ IndexDaily %ChgYTD %ChgYTD %ChgYTD %ChgYTD %ChgDiv Yield
Regions & countries
Developed ex Canada51481322.210.502.9513.622249.0314.891.48
Developed ex Europe41641508.000.512.8514.392435.2415.381.27
Developed ex Japan47781325.520.522.9014.082413.2315.001.44
Developed ex US3806802.230.564.7216.261640.0818.522.40
Developed ex UK51361006.590.512.9414.312341.2214.441.44
Developed ex Germany40011369.620.543.0213.472384.4214.761.47
Developed Asia Pacific2316859.810.555.1626.301541.2527.982.03
Developed Asia Pacific ex Japan18601112.000.574.1117.081580.6621.152.15
Developed Asia Pacific1193739.720.524.189.871580.6612.682.78
Developed ex Europe ex UK982868.640.504.129.711693.8312.532.70
Developed ex Europe ex Japan4451461.190.433.9410.001595.6312.682.69
Developed Asia Pacific3509789.370.534.6016.471590.8418.772.45
FTSE Emerging Indices
Emerging Markets47561007.600.862.8210.502310.1712.402.38
Emerging Asia Pacific40351231.400.732.6111.242248.0212.861.87
Emerging Europe259376.000.754.9221.63853.7524.432.51
Emerging Asia Pacific36166.001.353.3013.501000.0015.502.00
Emerging Plus Korea52094364.431.044.0219.738619.1621.552.08
Emerging Plus Korea+Poland71195221.111.104.6030.308645.2533.222.06
Emerging Europe12311130.301.304.9412.581258.5713.532.23
Secondary Energy35251000.120.471.99-6.811822.57-5.222.23
Aug 21 SectorNo of stocksIndexDay's chgMonth %ChgYTD %ChgYTD %Stor/NetYTD %Sto/NetDiv Yield
Hedged Goods & Home Goods122538.390.644.750.28824.851.682.22
Health Care15152.10-1.101.630.141147.861.802.07
Health Care8511221.640.93-1.4410.121931.0711.501.56
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech1181060.591.14-1.3710.882255.6711.891.54
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech5231065.610.908.7515.981987.8317.741.76
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech221277.800.8912.60-4.652177.05-4.210.97
Agricultural Food & Beverages
Food Producers306862.640.321.445.231188.457.903.11
Food Producers104991.950.655.0513.631598.6114.562.98
Energy
Energy373712.15-0.176.5233.111542.2035.922.95
Electricity248465.04-1.14-1.30-1.301457.36-1.30-0.33
Alternative Energy8938.250.37-2.987.37123.559.343.55
Oil & Gas67411.390.15-1.03-0.54554.59-0.383.38
Oil & Gas Coal306737.37-0.176.8334.541662.6737.553.09
Gas Water & Multi-Utilities117710.44-1.35-2.534.521791.357.133.59
Banks452895.12-1.12-3.143.131693.555.162.97
Transportation
Automobiles & Parts2981082.612.840.63-10.961778.92-10.041.48
Automobiles & Parts & Defense3861088.671.00-1.00-0.501778.92-10.041.48
Industrials
Industrial Engineering1022069.32-0.451.628.914720.149.671.07
Industrial Engineering3302358.290.830.5320.802735.4421.911.37
Industrial Materials95298.790.755.463.81537.425.582.76
Industrial Metals & Mining3181177.292.28-1.00-0.501177.29-1.002.76
Industrial Support Services2351308.121.056.731.791916.592.781.26
Industrials20621625.164.463.2911.982964.1213.141.42
Real Estate204168.290.48-0.01-0.01168.29-0.480.00
Resources & Materials
Basic Materials9981017.681.9513.5320.832056.3123.521.92
Diversified Materials4341086.170.621.6317.441947.8619.212.07
Construction & Materials4611453.480.03-0.912.962145.664.191.62
Precious Metals & Mining40107.540.04-0.01-0.01107.54-0.040.00
Precious Metals & Mining951683.513.2638.6518.482984.0519.761.37

UK COMPANY RESULTS

CompanyTurnover(E)
BATH Advanced Comms $Int 41.7m (60.4m)
Capital $*Int 219.0m (159.2m)
Global Opportunities Trust*Int - (-)
Hunting $*Int 497.0m (528.6m)
Ithaca Energy $*Int 1.7bn (1.5bn)
JPMorgan American Investment Trust*Int - (-)
Kenmare Resources $*Int 149.1m (167.7m)
Manchale CapitalFin 341k (409k)
Resolute Mining $*Int 584.7m (447.5m)
Temple Bar Investment Trust*Int - (-)

FTSE 100 SUMMARY

Close ($)%ChgClose ($)%Chg
3i Group2934.001.49Intl Cons Airlines432.20
Aberdeen Group246.201.30IDC2528.00
Admiral4080.000.00Interatl Group54545.00
Airtel Africa336.002.69Investec835.50
Alliance Wiltton1370.00...JD Sports Fashion85.50
Anglo American4118.001.25Kingfisher317.70
Antofagasta3972.001.72Linde Entertainment687.00
Asics, Bont. Foods2698.000.39Legal & General298.20
AstraZeneca12110.00-1.06Lion Finance13230.00
Autostratogran542.40-0.80Lloyds Bkg Gp711.60
Aviva738.001.53London Stock Exchange Hg153.50
Babcock Intl1081.50-2.08Lo Dutch Ex68400.00
BAC Systems2007.00-1.36M&G348.20
Bectonics455.350.56Marks & Spencer304.70
BlackRock Mining315.250.19Merck & Nephew476.75
Beasley1296.00...Metron Energy4154.87
BP533.70-2.88Nat Grid1198.50
BHP, Amer. Tobacco4194.001.31NatWest Group698.80
British Land438.80...Nord10275.00
BT Group295.500.78Pearson1225.00
Barratt2788.001.60Penumbra Square Hldgs3884.00
Burberry1078.000.76Perrigo-Romax1148.50
Centrica154.800.58Polar CapitalTech623.50
Coca Cola Europe8060.001.90Prudential1042.50
Coca-Cola HBC AG4616.001.58Reckitt Benckiser5180.00
Compass2297.851.22RELX2620.00
Compuotencor5100.000.29Rentokil Initial948.70
Convoic228.000.89Rio Tinto7666.00
Croda International3468.001.02Rolls-Royce1500.20
Diageo8365.00-0.08Omaha Inc.235.60
Diageo1771.003.02Schroders563.50
Diploma7200.00...Scott Dot Inv Tot1498.50
Endesa Mining547.00...Segro92.00
Estein541.000.63Severn Trent3122.00
Expansiv2983.000.47Shell3397.00
F&C Inv Trust340.20-0.23Smith & Nephew1902.00
Finsale3208.00-0.58Smiths Bv2976.00
Games Works18510.00-0.80Sprouts Group7035.00
Glencore505.10-0.62SSS2371.00
GSK1890.50-1.46Standard Chartered2106.00
Haleon368.801.65Volvo One Ltd935.00
Halma3554.001.25St James's Place1196.50
Hiscox1822.002.06Trent461.20
Howden Joinery808.500.31The Grado Grp1155.00
HSBC1933.500.70Truist Box191.10
IG Group1354.00-1.50Unilever4762.50
IIM3072.000.59Utd. Utilities1455.00
Imperial Brands2525.001.28Vodafone114.85
Informa906.00-0.09Visie2679.00
InterCont'l Hotels11836.601.99Whitbread2462.00

UK RECENT STOCK ADDITIONS

Close (p)%ChgClose (p)%Chg
ATC Music Group182.50-Mendell Helium4.956.60
Braunus Solutions167.50-4.83Meridian Mining91.80-
Central Africa Group200.00-Perihot Comms26.50-
Comah Metals110.003.77Power Probe65.50-
Dach Corp484.001.26Ritch Helium7.450.68
EDM Medical Group11.2515.38Sensil Resources22.007.33
Generation Essentials95.35-0.08Sintana Energy22.25-
Halo Minerals10.502.44Sunbelt Rentals59.000.32
Fonix Financial145.00-Tape Holdings44.00-
Mayflower Acquisition602.09-0.07The Smearner Web Co35.251.31
BioNTech116.575.68124.0079.520.0055.7829.48
Hong Kong (HKD)
AIA Group75.152.4092.1568.952.63127.16777.55
HKEX421.003.20466.00360.003.3128.96523.76
Naspers N784.763.191311.44776.710.6593.03600.41
Spain (EUR)
Banco Santander12.550.3213.127.991.5513.79188.49
BBVA Spain24.820.3125.2815.283.0095.46138.53
CuikaBank12.980.0713.478.383.1238.1890.55
Iberdrola SA20.05-0.0622.0815.332.7536.32133.80
Inditex58.220.6459.4241.242.43132.02181.45

FT GLOBAL 500: THE WORLD'S LARGEST COMPANIES

StockPrice+/-Chg52 Week
HighLowYldP/EMV (lb)
Australia (AUD)
ANZ Group Holdings37.130.1241.0032.465.8619.07111.98
BHP Group65.16-0.5965.9839.303.6833.66331.29
Commonwealth Bank157.991.55165.59146.983.2024.21264.39
CSL Ltd168.30-2.90228.3090.002.4226.1780.60
Macquarie Group248.43-3.87267.90197.313.2425.3895.31
National Australia Bank38.17-0.2648.4535.484.4517.27118.99
Westfarmers82.37-1.9795.1770.802.5931.9393.51
Westpac Banking33.830.0143.3233.664.5516.84115.71
Belgium (EUR)
Anteuser-busch IndevBrazil (BRL)67.160.6276.1848.871.2025.34120.70
Itau Unibanco Holding41.391.0647.8032.240.000.00232.52
Itau Unibanco Holding Prfd38.601.0949.6735.990.000.00208.79
Petroleo Brasileiro49.34-0.0756.1430.960.0043.73367.20
Petroleo Brasileiro Prfd44.30-0.0250.6929.310.000.00241.28
Vale75.031.0191.6252.950.0084.54319.31
StockPrice+Chg52-WeekP/EM/A
HighLowYldP/E
Fielo (EUR)
Nordia Bank Asia Finance (EUR)17.290.2117.7712.940.0012.4458.83
Air Liquide167.12-0.26189.80154.862.0132.03106.65
Airbus203.70-1.06221.30157.421.5738.00161.39
BASF42.720.1044.6636.555.3112.1897.41
BNP Paribas A170.50-1.54173.40133.201.8814.98202.62
Comerica de Guti Produco81.200.4098.3865.882.8312.1240.18
Civitas Agricole19.07-0.0320.4015.290.008.7557.70
Daimler86.320.1480.1460.643.3925.6145.32
Enelis22.430.2030.3615.971.0024.9230.10
ENDE25.29-0.2829.8917.334.0816.6464.30
EssilorLuxottica163.202.00323.80159.202.4531.3875.77
Hermes International1573.0023.502300.001465.501.1435.81166.06
Linde386.800.80403.50285.501.1434.18166.06
LMH Pharm Sociedad452.500.40654.70440.002.8720.70223.81
Safran343.60366.50262.600.9745.21143.74
Sanofi78.941.1591.1571.255.2210.0895.34
Schneider Electric296.802.50312.30208.801.4234.55171.73
Schneider Industrial199.80-0.10209.80149.001.1514.98171.73
VNOI119.30-0.10143.15112.404.2313.7970.03
Cognizant (€ million)297.825.71348.94168.610.0325.41151.73
Agnico Eagle Mines85.06-0.3995.15680.301.0029.4479.08
American Axleon Service85.06-0.3995.15680.301.0029.4479.08
Bank of Nova Scotia120.571.21127.6376.583.7824.81148.61
Broadfield57.400.32102.5952.040.67102.50129.13
Brookfield Asset Management A71.970.8786.5158.093.8541.13114.95
Canadian Empire Bank100.320.55172.87100.432.6726.07148.55
Canadian National Railway178.701.85185.25126.112.0531.46107.95
Canadian National70.810.3770.9940.983.5317.27145.97
Canadian Pacific Kansas133.082.27132.5098.500.7542.25116.98
Constellation Software3041.21-54.684634.982396.000.181012.3863.45
Enbridge69.54-0.3380.8562.425.5836.41151.88
Manulife Financial58.61-0.0363.5847.233.3121.8797.25
Royal Bank of Canada205.67-0.96216.16108.542.4925.65302.42
RBS Securities205.632.53210.10108.542.4925.65302.42
Suncor Energy94.250.4396.5353.022.5524.61110.24
TCE Energy85.44-1.57100.1869.414.1134.1885.44
The Toronto-Dominion Bank Inc.-0.18-0.18175.33100.012.6919.52272.41
Waste Connections233.350.92261.25203.460.8356.2358.82
Korean Finance House0.770.850.773.1223.1215.22
Mexico (MXN)
Ameica Movil B20.140.2824.4917.482.680.001252.41
Wal-Mart de Mexico46.57-1.0863.9746.452.490.00812.48
Netherlands (EUR)
Adyen1074.0011.201600.80772.400.0058.9834.03
ASM, Holding1506.000.601741.00611.800.5275.64584.55
Heineken72.420.6480.4463.902.8515.5440.95
ING Group29.830.0931.2120.213.8115.0785.71
Praxus N38.300.6863.9436.170.737.2483.73
The Magnum for Crown Co16.98-0.0117.3411.020.0035.3810.40
Universal Music Group NV14.73-0.1725.4614.173.5334.2627.08
Norway (NOK)
Germany (EUR)
inkddi AG154.453.45196.40129.951.8120.7027.88
Allianz440.802.50442.90328.803.8815.41167.69
SAB51.671.3051.6740.001.8010.0010.00
BMW58.980.9697.9256.407.474.9536.26
Deutsche Bank32.380.0934.2623.823.0910.2561.85
Deutsche Borse202.903.30280.70200.101.4842.9352.70
Deutsche Telekom AG29.540.2234.3623.533.4614.69140.35
DVA Group55.980.5858.3036.993.3918.1264.38
Informa Technologies65.570.5668.6338.820.6312.6973.09
Fiatris65.720.1067.1940.000.0012.54213.54
Merck537.95-0.10148.80100.701.5921.5917.83
Muncherech Russ516.403.20575.90437.404.6524.6665.57
Porsche45.010.4150.6635.622.2411.2920.50
Rivonmental1155.40-6.602088.00800.201.0069.9854.05
SAP188.122.48244.30127.501.3330.64231.11
Schneider Comm262.721.10278.10189.201.1010.0010.00
Siemens Energy153.360.78191.6683.320.46243.43132.06
Siemens Healthers40.200.3949.7132.812.4921.0545.35
Volkswagen76.300.65110.2071.006.825.7422.52
Volkswagen Fiat75.020.58109.1568.207.015.6415.47
Agricultural Bank Dairy0.78-0.038.695.793.688.8521.64
Bank of China6.056.395.133.748.1814.43
Bank of Communications A7.021.017.776.374.566.59412.29
China Construction Bank A10.52-0.0510.988.503.898.10223.06
China Life Insurance B10.020.1451.9230.322.316.79771.10
China Mobile Telecom B10.020.0110.028.002.806.80214.00
China Petroleum Chemical E5.10-0.048.144.433.8219.47485.43
China Shenhua Energy A48.41-0.1451.1847.243.4317.45648.86
China Energy Pharma E27.96-0.2029.5725.383.5818.63664.13
China Unicom (Hong Kong)10.020.0110.028.003.8018.63214.00
Cian Angra Services T391.156.15468.75272.720.9224.231724.33
East Manyer Information A18.910.1129.3617.220.5324.72290.20
Fascsim Int'l Internet82.840.7184.9544.031.5625.301247.00
IDEX7.72-0.0110.007.001.0010.00100.00
Haitong China18.10-0.0723.0416.645.895.23380.05
Jiangsu Hengxi Ptea Fd A17.76-1.7474.0445.260.4240.122043.54
Kweichow Malaysia1723.83-38.671568.601151.614.0919.381591.14
Ludian Finance Srl A54.651.3161.7839.610.5523.86461.23
Ludian Finance Srl B54.651.3161.7839.610.5523.86461.23
Peru Asia A11.200.2113.698.044.2013.021.81
Ping An Insurance Group Srl A5.211.2174.6846.905.126.95568.71
Petro Savings Bank China A4.980.016.444.764.368.824.99
Shanghai Yifeng Real Estate C10.020.0110.027.983.8010.02100.00
Wuliang Renbank Tsh A7.19-0.90131.8570.527.2430.86278.33
Zijin Mining Group34.740.4944.9430.452.3017.82715.71
Equinor399.10-2.70422.30226.403.59205.72954.15
Republic of Korea (KRW)
LG Energy Solution340500.00-14500.00527000.00290500.000.0074.9280379.00
SAMSUNG BIOLOGICS1551000.00-20000.001987000.00983000.000.0064.3871797.27
Samsung Electronics281500.0010500.00374500.0067500.000.6042.620.00
Samsung Electronics Pref207000.0015800.00243500.0055100.000.61195.73166006.84
Samsung Eplus360000.00-18000.00773000.00329000.000.00265.048957.90
SK hydra1730000.0038000.002987000.00245000.000.1727.880.00
StockPrice+/-Chg52 WeekP/EMV (bl)
HighLowYld
Shin-Elu Chemical6051.00-110.007930.004368.001.9223.9512911.21
SoftBank233.800.70244.80322.603.7620.6011225.15
SoftBank Group5255.00-132.0037695.003365.000.21-6.0230015.76
Sony Financial Group160.302.70219.00129.305.0039.1011805.26
Sony Group3785.008.004778.003043.000.9269.2022576.72
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial6606.0060.007500.003868.002.7216.0425110.23
Takeda Pharmaceutical5764.00-61.006633.004102.003.5459.5830254.54
Tokio Marine Holdings7347.00114.008468.005300.003.3326.3014208.10
Tokyo Electron54260.00270.0081290.0019670.000.8543.2725485.50
Toyota Motor3132.0066.004000.002666.003.1910.6145711.50
Saudi Arabia (SAR)
ACWA Power186.40252.60154.500.2577.67142.87
Al Rajhi Bank64.80113.0062.002.5716.62388.80
Saudi Arabian Mining66.8079.9051.250.0085.64259.77
Saudi Arabian Oil26.4027.9623.045.1418.3363.89
Saudi Basic Industries49.5064.0048.205.2597.06148.50
Saudi National Bank41.6645.2433.305.5210.31249.96
STC Co44.1445.3841.144.9814.86220.70
HCP471.003.20496.00390.003.3129.98533.75
India (INR)
Bajaj Food1092.00-1.951177.60788.400.5557.388806.22
Bharti Avant Ltd1948.903.402174.701745.001.23148.7321149.63
HCI Technologies1304.00-1.951770.001030.00-4.6020.323536.82
HDFC Bank727.501.001987.80715.051.7914.7012111.59
Hindustan Unilever2017.00-1.952778.702006.452.0346.114719.13
Hindi Heli1419.00-1.951775.001285.00-1.9514.7012111.59
Infosys1130.00-10.201727.95984.004.2917.364545.02
ITC Ltd269.80-1.45426.50265.105.379.713380.45
Kushai Mindana Banka402.804.30435.15345.400.163.624006.80
Lansin & Toubo4088.0516.054400.003288.650.8334.965624.61
Life Insurance Corp423.702.70936.60385.902.3614.895359.80
Maruti Suzuki India13586.00-208.6017371.6012322.101.0329.694389.59
Mitsubishi Utd1419.00-1.952175.001285.00-1.9514.704545.02
State Bank of India1045.40-1.951234.80798.601.6612.033649.89
Sun Pharmaceutical Inds1800.90-0.102047.551547.250.8441.694560.79
Tesla Consultancy Techs2298.005.453336.701916.002.8317.128134.37
Agricultural Bank China-H6.280.016.525.054.488.05193.04
Allstate Bank Holding123.00-3.20186.20885.658.04148.192258.52
Bank of China-H5.500.075.514.114.647.44460.34
Bank of Communications-H7.560.087.836.338.867.00264.69
BTO Inc93.151.35120.6071.400.4428.02343.11
China CITIC Bank8.630.018.636.307.6010.0026.63
China Construction Bank-H9.240.049.367.184.757.1122.23
China Life Insurance-H28.061.3636.1620.903.485.15200.80
China Merchants Bank-H49.440.4453.7043.344.608.67226.97
China Petroleum Chemical-H4.410.045.703.365.1216.81104.76
China Railway Group-H10.000.0010.007.001.001.0010.00
CITIC Securities-H26.240.3832.5023.243.7213.3889.84
IDIC H7.47-7.665.564.687.47648.79
JCI com-A115.200.70143.8095.803.4016.72267.60
Median-385.50-0.95122.9063.650.0022.14475.69
Median-3 Group H100.00-0.00100.0070.000.0020.00100.00
NetEase202.008.60249.00168.802.2719.07648.94
Nanjing Fu-Gp Inc*42.54-56.35392.222.6630.15214.17
PetcoChina-H10.130.1012.226.995.2211.78213.73
Ping An Insurance Group-H50.202.1074.7050.005.877.32618.55
PetroChina Holdings-H10.000.0010.007.005.0010.00100.00
Tencent Holdings457.005.60683.00411.001.1618.474160.13
Xiaomi Corp - G229.021.2659.9021.300.0017.91619.98
Zijin Mining Group-H38.561.8046.9822.662.3919.77230.93
Banci Central Asia6450.0050.006750.004820.000.0013.617951.24
FT Banto Renewables3460.0010.0010725.002300.000.120.00629.00
Italy (EUR)
Asociacionari Generali42.990.1545.4831.763.8117.6965.97
Enel9.500.0010.317.695.1625.6896.61
Eni24.14-0.4125.0214.484.5617.1273.10
Ferrari371.106.95431.20269.000.8053.7065.79
Intesa Sanpaolo6.77-0.056.944.815.5529.43119.68
Stellantis4.650.1810.494.370.006.2413.46
UniCredit SpA83.030.2185.9657.363.7916.26129.67
ABB80.200.6089.1452.661.1730.97146.22
Alcon58.80-0.4868.3447.800.4856.5429.38
Cns Finanziers (Recheran)185.752.80202.20127.201.7839.6199.86
Givaudan32696.007.0039260.002566.002.2036.6830.16
Hokim70.300.6282.5460.102.4221.8339.85
Lorsoa Group592.206.40591.00454.600.8466.3241.59
Nestle79.680.2887.0970.293.8922.70205.30
Novartis127.421.08131.5096.032.9041.78259.28
Roche Holding379.603.60383.00264.602.5823.4640.50
Roche Holding Pref.375.603.80374.60291.002.6123.21263.88
Sika185.801.85197.60120.351.9928.5829.82
Swiss Re139.301.00153.85114.054.5210.6741.62
UBS Group42.50-0.2244.4428.252.0221.68139.31
Zurich Insurance Group586.001.60626.00521.005.1218.3288.62
Full Truck Alliance8.770.1514.077.462.65292.33163.56
Fatu Holdings A123.6410.91202.5380.502.0611.8394.71
PDD Holdings A88.38-1.14139.4171.940.0035.35501.87
Cancer4503.0078.005033.003981.003.4915.646152.98
Chagas Pharmaceutical7011.00-98.006370.006032.001.8826.5911717.81
Davis-Svapsky2833.50-34.004170.002296.003.5318.745278.51
FAST RETAILING73510.003770.0068860.0043680.000.6752.6823302.42
Hitachi5196.0047.006030.003603.001.0838.8225968.77
Hosha Motor1733.00-10.001733.00-18.00-1633.25
HCPA24400.003450.0024000.001960.001.3133.468335.79
ITOCOH7561.00296.009695.001802.002.1216.2518426.85
Japan Tobacco6990.00110.007216.004653.003.8024.9313960.60
KDDI2915.5054.503211.002387.002.8815.8811663.72
Anadarko7866.00-76.006783.005101.000.6941.5310423.38
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries474.00-1.00474.00-0.00-474.00
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries474.00-123.005306.003040.000.7429.7713265.18
Mitsubishi UFJ Corp.3638.00-44.003813.002193.002.7416.4641633.93
Mitau & Co4999.00125.006675.003283.002.8616.8314634.00
Michael-Peffer Financial610.00-25.006810.004080.001.8516.1219817.31
Nippon Holdings6598.00-25.006598.004080.001.8516.1219817.31
NTT166.104.70165.00142.603.3513.1715044.41
Renault Household15980.00245.0016960.006940.000.1645.4623142.67
Hon Hai Precision245.50-1.00314.00187.502.9218.043444.03
MediaTek3790.0090.004970.001130.001.4157.296078.76
Taiwan Semicon Mtg2410.0035.002535.001135.001.0836.3762497.01
United Arab Emirates (AED)
Aim Holding243.32-7.40452.70100.020.00286.25258.89
United States (USD)
3M Co176.960.87184.90139.341.7431.5692.29
Abbott Laboratories116.642.50137.4981.972.1631.63201.83
AbbVie Inc100.00-0.00100.00100.000.00100.00100.00
Accenture Pte. A195.283.93291.09118.153.5214.67113.38
Aldem275.303.08370.06198.120.0015.74109.43
Alicom SA110.67-0.10130.22104.662.1012.4759.19
Aptiv & Products C355.14-1.00355.14100.000.00100.00100.00
Autrob Ltd.107.302.30193.80119.210.0049.9578.58
Alphabet A344.824.15408.61198.430.2617.102023.40
Alphabet B341.753.45409.44200.400.2616.956888.95
Amazon.com86.00-0.0096.00100.000.00100.00100.00
Amazon.com S259.63-1.48287.20196.000.0025.512099.66
AMD473.253.79564.73149.220.00119.21772.57
American Electric Power120.944.76145.58105.933.1428.7865.84
American ind.235.85-1.25261.55117.570.00100.00100.00
American express Grp.76.120.3787.2971.252.6313.7639.80
American Tower175.800.08214.79160.063.9724.1261.92
American Medical555.508.50572.56427.271.2213.3449.08
American express239.55-2.95261.55175.570.00100.00100.00
American ind.438.23-6.80522.29289.771.2927.0927.52
Amphenol A157.013.70198.52105.450.3237.38193.59
Analog Devices373.092.85445.01223.471.1844.051867.99
Aon Plc A355.113.81362.36204.580.9218.4975.23
Applied Global Mgmt12.95-0.0013.9510.000.0010.0010.00
Apple Inc.309.35-1.95344.57223.780.3535.311451.71
Applied Materials Inc492.32-3.89739.67154.470.4342.153967.70
Apple Inc.*355.77-3.00745.61353.170.0023.4193.09
Applied Micro devices142.74-0.20158.88106.680.00100.00100.00
Arista Networks168.654.80214.49114.520.0056.59237.93
Arthur J. Gallagher263.814.20313.55186.751.0643.2567.61
AT&T Corp.55.290.2479.19198.994.398.35173.30
Autodesk171.83-0.20186.88106.680.00100.00100.00
Autodesk Group253.822.81329.09185.000.0036.7953.56
Auto Data Processing288.811.60308.99188.162.4225.60111.56
AocData Inc.2957.96-4.044368.112962.200.0019.8448.29
Bank of America141.27-0.10158.88105.450.00100.00100.00
Bank of New York Mellon158.491.25165.69102.441.5918.30107.54
Becton Dickinson192.004.38213.08140.112.1933.1052.30
Berkeley Networks A43003.82-1000.0043003.826888.000.008.5129.59
Berkeley Networks B485.67-1.45546.67346.670.00100.00100.00
Blackrock11655.7516.7312194.949171.981.8827.23179.11
Blackstone143.382.03160.09101.732.3120.08107.62
Boston Scientific82.162.0886.7548.210.00141.6844.43
Boeing Co.214.20-0.89254.35175.7715.7076.71169.30
Booking Solutions61.68-0.1267.4644.460.00100.00100.00
Booking Holdings2089.62-0.252750.051530.140.7823.16157.50
Boston Scientific50.371.00109.5042.200.0022.2373.00
British Amer. Equip.67.011.5468.6442.523.7614.70136.86
Caterpillar146.67-0.25159.45106.650.00100.00100.00
Cadence Design Systems319.025.43416.69200.756.0363.0567.86
Capital One Financial217.915.43258.63174.241.4712.01133.88
Carrier Global60.270.2276.7650.241.5942.5149.76
Carrier Software69.51-0.2279.3754.681.4712.49133.88
Caterpillar Inc.827.9012.511072.44410.510.7935.47380.56
CBE Group A152.100.31174.77121.690.0039.2044.64
Cencora318.643.35377.54244.920.7523.5160.69
Cenovus Energy138.71-0.25158.88106.680.0029.9657.32
Chevron Energy277.51-1.66300.89188.200.9620.9957.32
Chvron Corp.285.27-0.50214.71146.493.4719.76405.57
Chipotle Mexican Oil36.901.6143.7228.640.0033.8546.69
Chubb344.95-1.85384.35236.650.0019.8448.29
Chubb Group203.79-0.27219.16161.161.0241.0061.55
Cisco Systems111.041.45130.37166.131.5136.77437.66
Citigroup113.651.88147.8691.462.0418.52220.83
Cigna Int’lcs A2334.24-1.233132.291532.29--28.81249.88
CME Group A274.88-4.113226.18236.814.1323.2198.88
Cogent Capital S.a.l.61.870.9567.0337.082.1313.2227.87
Corona Solar E A186.49-0.14402.16139.110.0048.1941.55
Corona Petroleum91.081.3899.3374.552.2335.8672.81
Corona Energy266.65-0.45336.65236.65--28.81249.88
ConocoPhillips134.67-0.02135.8789.572.4917.64162.02
Constellation Energy272.88-0.04412.70228.630.6326.6596.68
Open Source33.80-0.5355.7139.610.0028.6931.29
Oxford Canada149.64-0.24176.99116.88--28.81249.88
Oxford Int’lcs A81.79-0.3390.9760.530.8849.5754.57
Costco Wholesale9474.7414.2310950.406845.020.4672.604230.30
Coupang A18.450.1924.0814.920.0026.2626.97
Coupang Corp. A17.88-0.1323.8914.34--28.81249.88
CrowdStrike Holdings A191.951.68786.00174.140.0063888.33195.45
Adnoc Gas3.30-0.013.763.125.4549.25253.28
First Acq Dhabi Bank19.32-0.2020.7415.324.1410.44213.44
United Kingdom (GBP)
3i Group Plc29.340.4344.9718.252.885.4429.50
AstraZeneca121.10-1.30157.3298.921.9725.02187.83
BAS Systems20.97-0.2923.6015.291.8030.4862.97
Blackeye4.950.035.543.532.3211.3166.65
BP5.34-0.166.093.994.6283.81
British Amer Tobacco41.940.6353.2636.775.8411.9590.60
Compass Group22.980.2825.8120.002.2128.4639.07
Diageo17.710.5221.4212.962.0730.9239.43
Experian29.630.1439.8722.031.7524.5626.29
Glencore5.93-0.047.072.822.1069.82
StockPrice+/-Chg52 Week
HighLowYldP/EMV/Bl
GSK18.91-0.2822.8214.403.7013.4076.48
Haleon3.700.074.162.741.9719.8832.53
HSBC Holdings15.290.1116.109.433.6017.23262.53
Lloyds Banking Group1.110.001.180.881.5415.9413.64
London Stock Exchange Grp88.402.38101.4066.841.7937.0842.93
National Grid11.70-0.0114.2910.004.1517.8658.79
NatWest Group6.890.057.265.005.0812.8754.78
Reckitt Benckiser Group51.800.3865.2336.644.1811.0632.88
RELX26.520.4036.0019.912.6023.5546.35
Rio Tinto76.660.1891.1745.114.4517.0396.22
Rolls-Royce Holdings15.00-0.0215.869.900.7321.61124.86
Shell33.97-0.1237.5925.544.4515.29188.15
Unilever47.831.0155.4236.443.4512.91103.03

COMMODITIES
VOLATILITY INDICES

Company52/Week
Price+/-ChgHighLowYldP/E
DHLK93.571.0094.6884.004.5956.08
Oracle146.474.40147.52114.101.3724.68
AT&T Automotive89.110.03108.7282.590.0028.20
Citi Worldwide71.49-0.2894.5869.162.4523.21
FVH Corp143.88-0.05146.68121.800.0025.11
PACOR131.032.09139.2492.251.0727.53
Palantir Technologies A179.945.98187.57106.320.00141.69
Palo Alto Networks357.818.31388.88139.570.00300.73
Paychex103.74-0.10106.8883.600.0026.65
Paypal Inc.134.471.56141.1985.452.5044.27
PayPal Holdings61.55-0.7579.2238.460.0111.55
PayPalA134.401.48171.40133.734.1318.76
PayPal Inc.134.401.48171.40133.734.1318.76
Phil Morris Intl188.23-3.29307.76142.113.1227.04
Philip 66243.672.67246.95122.253.095.82
PHC Financial Services Gp243.131.51256.96176.862.5913.37
Philips 66279.26-0.09300.00216.003.0013.37
Philips 66141.881.12153.25107.643.0231.34
Prudential Financial121.150.56127.7291.894.0210.92
Public Storage322.49-0.25335.55206.543.7230.65
Roper technologies100.75-0.05103.7575.003.0025.00
Realty Income62.80-0.5767.9455.865.1945.69
Regeneron Pharma834.507.40844.92541.400.4519.50
Republic Services220.611.17237.06186.411.2131.26
Robert & Johnson108.1313.03123.9663.600.0025.71
S&P 500108.13-0.05110.0078.880.0025.71
Roper Technologies411.791.34540.34305.960.8817.09
Ross Stores238.0410.65257.08104.740.3176.68
Royal Caribbean Group230.284.38386.56232.101.71189.55
S&P Global230.284.38386.56232.101.71189.55
S&P Global431.31-0.67559.44301.940.9026.23
Salesforce209.173.74269.11146.320.8424.13
Schlumberger53.670.3258.0231.642.1911.54
ServiceNow56.16-0.0160.0043.000.0011.54
ServiceNow128.44-1.27167.6391.240.0076.02
Simon Property Group219.28-1.61238.50172.194.1215.41
Smith&Nephew332.7811.49341.95118.300.0091.02
Southern Properties56.16-0.0160.0043.000.0011.54
Sunstone Net88.94-2.49100.8383.402.3210.23
Southern Copper216.0017.27223.8893.561.8332.43
Spotify Technology533.720.59749.58450.000.00228.34
Starbucks107.36-0.05110.8884.000.0022.55
Strategic A119.256.86365.2181.610.001.20
Stryker326.451.75396.86261.001.0733.86
Sympiresys397.87-0.05615.79365.000.0080.22
Targa Resources259.14-0.14318.48226.000.0010.00
Volvo165.447.19161.9883.442.8071.74
TE Connectivity203.922.98252.56190.271.5319.80
Tesla Systems382.3617.83493.98287.370.00307.51
Texas Instruments264.38-0.28316.88236.000.0026.00
The Alstadoc253.83-0.71277.22188.081.705.02
The Charles Schwab112.302.51112.2083.961.1420.34
The Cigna Group277.513.10315.47239.512.2511.68
The Citigroup51.19-0.0157.9943.550.0011.54
The Kroger57.901.5876.5854.152.8933.68
The Andrew Willems246.50-0.32378.65269.860.9231.68
The Littie Co.146.53-0.16170.06134.751.3731.02
The Company A146.53-0.16170.06134.751.3731.02
Thermo Fisher Scientific629.721.72643.98435.270.3033.81
T-Mobile US183.041.82261.25185.662.2319.11
Trane Technologies453.432.33535.87348.060.9334.38
Trane Energy Corp.1330.35-2.691599.89979.841.5426.67
Trane Energy Corp.365.58-0.39399.69252.261.366.63
Truist Financial504.920.1659.2940.784.1311.43
Uber Technologies78.850.20101.9965.410.0017.66
Union Pacific306.054.08319.39210.641.4425.67
United States Telecom B.V.102.51-0.04107.9974.990.0016.68
United States Telecom B.V.1098.513.251176.19701.590.2628.37
UnitedHealth Group3001.155.26481.62255.972.3825.01
US Bancorp63.050.3766.0645.023.3512.39
US Bancorp Inc.102.51-0.04107.9974.990.0016.68
Verizon Communications49.450.2651.6843.005.7212.88
Verizon Media Group A38.750.1259.9337.873.976.00
Verizon Pharmaceuticals548.057.78633.69374.170.0031.60
Visa 'a'371.34-0.04427.88277.780.0026.88
Visa 'b'130.21-2.73219.82132.660.6822.70
Walmart1027.70-0.14135.1695.420.9536.39
Walt Disney107.780.46119.7692.191.2823.13
Wells Fargo107.78-0.46119.7692.191.2823.13
Wells Fargo83.840.1497.7872.782.3912.05
Widowhaire238.221.82255.20163.731.42104.41
Workday a'280.013.69294.95191.360.0061.50
Workday b'281.243.69294.95191.360.0061.50
Yum!Brands Inc.152.990.66170.14137.331.9619.15
Zscia 'b'777.732.71759.00710.002.7312.69
StockPrice+/-Chg
Crown Castle75.510.12 10
CDX51.590.62 5
Cummins587.68-5.56 72
Danaher93.840.26 10
Danaher218.852.94 24
Deere & Co.647.4726.53 63
Delphi Technologies C440.387.30 51
Digital Signal Svs.100.00-0.01 10
Digital Realty Trust190.62-3.68 20
Dominion Energy66.60-0.87 1
DollarSuisse A223.491.13 28
DollarSuisse B146.510.85 10
Dalian Inc119.85-2.64 13
Edson Corp419.303.91 4
Ecolab281.630.15 30
ElevanceHealth480.544.26 43
Eli Lilly & Co1255.40110.00 125
Energent Electric157.262.54 16
Egonquin153.060.00 10
Egonquin1065.39-17.22 11
Exelon43.78-1.28 1
ExxonMobil Hldgs165.11-1.04 16
First Financial10.000.00 10
FirstEx325.08-0.96 41
Ferguson Ent242.24
FICO (ISS&C)1177.6223.92 150
Fiat Inc100.000.00 10
Fiatry Entertainment102.613.04 26
Fortinet Inc153.512.72 17
FreeportMcKesson76.665.44 7
Gaming254.851.76 21
Health Care348.343.46 34
iIEC74.820.76 10
iIEC Telecom956.85-9.16 115
General Dynamics384.29-1.79 40
Genetica100.000.00 10
Gilead Sciences146.122.68 15
Goldman Sachs Group1029.2837.33 15
IICA Healthcare429.1923.92 55
Home Depot335.611.12 4
Home Depot335.611.12 4
Howmet World215.90-2.42 26
Howmet Apparel271.68-1.96 31
IBM225.00-0.00 10
Illinois Tool Works282.29-0.45 30
Intel90.07-2.06 14
Interactive Bkgers Co. A93.674.02 5
Interactive Credit Expenditures366.73-1.84 11
Intuit367.005.13 70
Intuitive Surgical378.814.30 60
Johnson & Johnson270.242.87 7
JPMorgan Chase35.180.00 10
JPMorgan Chase351.580.03 06
Kinase19.060.13 13
Keurig Oil Paper32.040.38 3
KeyCorp266.73-0.27 1
Kinder Morgan P30.98-0.83 1
KKB & Co108.481.46 15
LTA186.99-1.87 24
Lemon Micro Devices366.73-1.87 24
Lam Research314.003.47 43
Linde487.576.28 54
Lockheed Martin563.57-7.91 68
Linde366.73-7.91 68
Lululemon Industria121.075.28 22
Marathon Petroleum366.722.49 36
Marriott International A356.39-0.21 41
Marathon Oil & Gas100.00-0.00 10
Marvell Technology237.04-13.97 33
Motorola S.A.586.636.78 68
McDonald's270.951.82 34
Marsh&M658.0020.15 95
Microsoft93.320.35 11
Merrill Lynch152.553.56 15
Meta Platforms A549.904.67 79
MetLife94.34-0.88 10
Microsoft Software96.67-0.88 10
Microsoft483.242.08 55
Mondelez International A64.450.31 6
Monster Bananas47.79-0.36 10
Morgan Stanley52.01-0.36 10
Morgan Stanley214.206.75 23
Motorola Solutions480.476.64 9
MSD Alla563.49-5.26 64
Netflix99.72-0.00 10
Netflix79.59-0.55 126
Newmont Corp131.583.94 13
Newfield Energy83.65-1.38 8
Noble Corp10.000.00 10
NorfolkSouthern350.724.10 35
Northrop Grumman551.03-12.83 73
Nu Holdings A14.580.37 1
Nokia10.000.00 10
NXP Semiconductors225.562.59 5
Occidental Petroleum61.30-0.22 22
INTEREST RATES: OFFICIAL
DateRateCurrentSinceLast
USFed Funds3.50-3.7529-04-20263.50-3.75
USPrime6.7529-04-20266.75
USDiscount3.7529-04-20263.75
EuroRepo1.92501-09-20252.40
UKRepo3.7530-04-20263.75
JapanO'night Call0.7522-01-20260.50
SwitzerlandLibor Target0.2521-03-20250.50
INTEREST RATES: MARKET
Aug 24OvernightChangeOneMonthThreeMonthSixMonthOneYear
DayWeek
SQR3.6300.0100.0103.6773.7533.8564.004
EURBOR---2.2162.5242.7653.003
ESTR2.189-0.0020.0002.2602.3882.4922.641
SARON-0.0740.004-0.015-0.054-0.045-0.047-0.046
SONIA3.7310.0000.0003.7413.7973.9204.135

Rates are fixed at 11am UK time.

BONDS: TEN YEAR GOVT SPREADS
BONDS: BENCHMARK GOVERNMENT

BONDS: TEN YEAR GOVT SPREADS
Bid YieldSpread vs BundSpread vs BondBid YieldSpread vs BundSpread vs Bond
Austria3.390.14-1.29Italy3.930.68-0.75
Australia4.961.710.28Japan2.85-0.40-1.83
Belgium3.710.46-0.97Netherlands3.280.03-1.40
Brazil14.6511.409.97Poland5.852.601.17
China1.70-1.55-2.98Portugal3.500.25-1.18
Denmark3.07-0.18-1.61Spain3.610.36-1.07
France4.000.75-0.68Sweden2.92-0.33-1.76
Greece3.250.00-1.43UK5.051.800.37
Ireland3.270.02-1.41US4.681.430.00

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EnergyPriceChange
Brent Crude92.42-1.71
Natural Gas2.770.00
Light Crude Oil84.78-2.28
3.5 Fuel Oil500.01-1.38
Euro Naphtha Oil757.201.56

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Base Metals
Aluminium3214.00-23.50
Copper14242.5027.00
Lead1910.0012.00
Nickel17005.00-53.00
Tin55695.00-196.00
Zinc3830.007.00

BONDS: GLOBAL INVESTMENT GRADE

AgriculturePriceChange
Corn493.259.50
Wheat205.00-0.75
Rapeseed522.50-15.75
Sunflower Seed10355.00-21.00
Soybeans1208.25-16.75
Soybeans Meal319.101.40
Cocoa (ICE Life)4278.00-10.00
Cocoa (ICE US)5825.00-165.00
Coffee (Robusta)3576.00-93.00
Coffee (Arabica)439.2520.75
White Sugar551.60-0.60
Sugar #1117.50-0.11
Cotton86.65-0.42
Orange Juice155.254.45
Maple Leaf4622.3354.76
Live Cattle220.60-2.45
Feeder Cattle334.800.05
Lean Hogs81.080.20
Palm Oil (Malaysian)1181.00-3.50
Precious Metals
Gold4648.0833.51
Silver ($)68.58-0.37
Platinum1884.757.75
Palladium1365.4221.31
Iron Ore95.85-0.05

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Bulk Commodities
Baltic Dry2882.0041.00
Richards ICE Futures110.500.25

Sources: Energy: NYMEX. Base Metals: LME / London Metal Exchange. Corn, Wheat, Soybeans: CBOT. Live Cattle, Live Feeder, Lean Hogs: CME.

Red DateCouponBid PriceBid YieldDailyWeekly
US$
Morgan Stanley30/014.0098.874.570.03-0.11
Trust Finl Corp28/064.1299.655.12-0.020.02
National Rural32/114.0294.345.27-0.02-1.08
Washington Gaslight Co36/035.7891.975.020.000.00
Northern States Power28/038.13100.665.050.000.00
Oklahoma Gas & Elec28/046.50103.014.580.00-0.05
Euro
Germany25/082.2289.252.91-0.05-0.16
Spain46/102.8882.554.190.08-0.30
Belgium47/061.5061.314.500.15-0.30
France48/052.0063.334.730.13-0.49
£ Sterling
United Kingdom46/124.2582.505.720.090.09
United Kingdom47/071.5048.465.780.100.10
Aug 24Day ChgPrev52 wk high52 wk low
VIX15.750.6215.1335.3013.38
VXD14.070.6513.4242.712.43
VDAX16.420.3316.0835.5813.53
Red DateCouponBid PriceBid YieldDaily yield chgWkly yield chgMthly yield chgYear chg
Australia06/544.7588.545.56-0.030.000.000.32
04/274.75100.114.57-0.03-0.02-0.121.20
Austria02/232.8897.953.250.000.040.060.37
10/533.1386.423.98-0.020.000.080.15
Belgium06/543.2579.444.63-0.020.030.140.34
Canada06/271.0098.852.820.000.000.03-0.18
10/532.7577.003.930.000.030.150.15
Denmark11/232.2595.512.780.000.00-0.100.20
11/294.50113.673.21-0.010.030.030.28
Finland09/270.5097.522.840.030.070.020.71
09/333.0097.923.320.000.040.060.35
France05/543.0072.054.85-0.020.040.190.41
11/333.5098.343.76-0.010.05-0.79-0.45
Germany08/232.6096.943.090.000.040.070.38
08/531.7567.153.760.000.010.120.27
Greece06/283.88101.473.020.030.10-0.080.58
06/254.53103.273.700.010.780.050.42
Ireland10/230.2584.493.17-0.58-0.03-0.19-0.54
Italy12/272.6399.652.940.030.080.030.70
03/344.13102.713.820.000.070.070.50
Netherlands01/542.0070.153.76-0.020.000.090.18
07/332.5096.083.14-0.020.020.030.35
Poland04/282.7597.624.260.00-0.01-0.130.41
10/336.00102.065.640.000.050.120.70
Portugal07/231.6391.534.210.000.090.070.43
Spain10/521.8862.434.32-0.010.020.120.28
10/332.50100.803.420.000.050.070.36
Sweden11/231.7596.394.500.000.00-0.04-0.14
Switzerland03/362.50119.740.320.00-0.02-0.220.49
United Kingdom06/280.0092.654.370.030.03-0.050.61
10/533.7571.985.81-0.01-0.020.070.60
United States11/234.5099.605.56-0.010.010.010.59
11/534.7592.675.26-0.05-0.070.070.43

GILTS: UK CASH MARKET

Aug 24PriceYieldRed YieldDayWeekHighLow
Tr 1.25pc '2797.411.284.22-0.020.0597.4895.29
Tr 0.875pc '2989.610.984.44-0.040.0191.000.01
Tr 1pc '3282.591.214.67-0.010.0585.0781.01
Tr 4.25pc '3693.784.535.080.040.0299.3992.65
Tr 4.5pc '4288.665.085.570.090.0896.4587.54
Tr 3.75pc '5272.865.155.780.150.1781.5072.00
Tr 4pc '6073.975.415.760.150.2483.5273.28

Closing prices and highs & lows are in traded currency. Market capitalisations are in local currency. Highs & lows are based on a rolling 52 week period

GILTS: UK FTSE ACTUARIES INDICES

Price IndicesFixed CouponAug 24Dayschg %TotalReturnMonthReturnYearReturnYield
Up to 5 Years85.12-0.022659.410.391.164.44
5-10 Years144.45-0.013398.300.34-0.524.90
10-15 Years142.540.043727.560.09-1.985.35
5-15 Years142.240.013468.740.26-0.985.08
Over 15 Years164.610.123285.59-0.46-5.575.72
All stocks125.670.023135.650.14-1.325.33

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Index LinkedAug 24Day'schg %Monthchg %Year'schg %TotalReturnReturn1 MonthReturn1 Year
Up to 5 Years363.00-0.010.532.193167.480.553.00
Over 5 Years465.550.150.43-2.653643.820.44-2.22
5-15 Years457.590.110.571.043837.620.581.60
Over 15 Years461.470.210.27-6.193480.200.28-5.88
All stocks463.860.120.50-1.683706.990.51-1.18
Yield IndicesAug 24Aug 21Yr Ago
5 Yrs4.614.604.26
10 Yrs5.115.114.59
15 Yrs5.475.474.88
20 Yrs5.655.665.02
45 Yrs5.595.604.91
Real Yield 0% InflationAug 24Dur YrsPreviousYr Ago
Up to 5 Years1.002.721.000.73
Over 5 Years2.3416.292.351.90
5-15 Years2.009.552.011.61
Over 15 Years2.4923.042.502.01
All stocks2.2813.402.291.86
Real Yield 5% InflationAug 24Dur YrsPreviousYr Ago
Up to 5 Years0.702.720.700.43
Over 5 Years2.3016.292.311.88
5-15 Years1.929.551.931.54
Over 15 Years2.4723.042.482.00
All stocks2.2313.402.241.82

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Main Market

Price+/- Chg52 WeekYldP/EVol 000s
HighLowYld
Aerospace & Defence
BAE Systems*2097.00-29.002360.001529.001.8030.483933.48
Chemring Group*558.00-12.50650.75446.521.4531.35652.53
Automobiles & Parts
Ford Motors*1018.37-39.281319.04841.764.32-5.83--
Banks
ANZ Group1934.15-18.212128.501590.555.9018.933328.18
Banco Santander1084.006.001122.00688.001.5313.92212.59
Bank of Nova Scotia6367.06-58.036791.544208.33--7.84-712.54
BASF495.352.75554.10352.652.3211.3138989.65
Canadian Imperial8454.08-89.269198.885380.232.68--332.48
HSBC €*1529.0010.601610.00942.803.6017.2314225.11
Lineage Corp.13230.00141.0016020.001255.002.409.3555.16
Lloyds Bkg Gp*111.600.35117.9077.383.5915.9479337.83
NatWest Group*688.805.00726.00500.205.0812.676547.05
OTB Group*515.00-1.00647.50479.006.716.81699.77
S&P 5002469.84-0.762576.001632.290.634.4322.64
Royal Bank of CAI14981.80-55.4916187.0310116.162.49--783.54
Stand Chart*2195.0033.002278.001351.502.3215.325204.53
...3.735%PI112.75--128.84109.506.54--178.83
S&P 500130.00--143.00125.006.35--54.16
Toronto-Dominion8542.05-50.318256.885736.302.69--802.72
Westpac1770.43-8.412275.391755.744.5616.793277.27
Elementis●178.00-1.20195.40136.001.87-31.11422.83
Johnson Matthey●2268.00-6.003245.252224.004.53-29.74385.58
Victrex820.007.00838.00515.007.2625.62147.14
Construction & Materials
Guilliford Try Hldgs614.006.00638.00407.503.2618.22121.02
Morgan Sindall4382.008.005730.003915.003.7211.7831.98
Electronic & Electrical Equip
discoverE Grp758.00-6.00840.00505.001.7225.1099.37
Halma3554.0044.004902.003194.000.7036.06603.64
Morgan Adv Mat234.000.50261.00179.805.2131.20517.05
Oxford Instruments2760.00-86.003318.001682.000.8632.62226.02
Renishaw5035.00-65.005490.003110.001.5543.7130.87
TT Electronics135.00-0.60154.8093.00--4.74107.24
XP Power1734.00-30.002060.00843.00--41.29339.80
Financial General
3i Group*2934.0043.004497.001825.002.88
Aberdeen Group*246.203.40265.00177.535.5311.401900.00
Bridgepoint Group320.60-0.40351.00123.002.9684.121114.00
Bank of London Inc469.00-1.00492.00348.006.7516.6383.81
Close Bros.424.00-4.20556.15318.40-6.34205.15
ICIC2052.0016.002340.001243.474.2912.15963.47
Investec*635.50-1.50690.00498.366.068.2421944.61
Jupiter*164.401.20214.50113.403.659.56834.30
Lionary Place*317.003.00375.00203.006.0020.26104.00
London Stock Ex.*8840.00238.0010140.006664.001.7537.001868.74
Rehbones Group1708.004.002500.001580.005.8515.8345.82
S & U1975.0025.002458.501620.005.8210.122.60
Schroders583.50-0.50598.50356.603.7717.112847.64
James's Place*1196.50-1.5012575.001028.751.5011.982915.96
TP C&P Group332.203.00355.00235.505.1813.181085.90
Varlequis Banking Gp78.50-1.20132.0075.0024.53764.26

AIM

Price+/- Dly Chg52 WeekVol000s
HighLowYldP/E
Aerospace & Defence
Cohort*1220.00-14.001538.00881.101.4723.36122.57
Velocity Composites17.00--25.0012.00--8.5024.29
Elastic Resources (Ex Mining)
Cropper J445.00--460.00230.00--14.453.27
Construction & Materials
Accsys Tech70.800.8079.8458.10--30.996.58
Electronic & Electrical Equip
Checklist20.00--27.0012.35---7.69100.33
LPA77.50--90.0034.00---29.3619.69
Thorpe FW260.001.00320.00240.002.7611.9928.10
Financial General
Arbuthnot Banking820.0020.001130.00765.006.717.5256.89

Investment Companies

Price+/-Chg52 WeekYldNAVDiv ($)
HighLowYldPress
Conventional (Ex Private Equity)
3i Infra395.003.50395.00325.003.41403.80-4.40-
Alt GVIT90.752.0096.7776.006.72100.99-10.24-
AEP Inc1764.00-2.001772.001088.072.711721.19-10.14-
Aberdeen Asia Foc442.00-1.00464.00342.001.46484.99-8.59-
Aberdeen Asian Inc Fund311.00-7.00357.00236.006.04338.90-9.08-
Aberdeen Eq Inc465.002.00473.00359.254.97466.27-0.10-
Aberdeen UK Smil523.002.00539.00441.502.68574.33-6.35-
Alliance Witan1370.00-1394.001178.002.141440.38-4.94-
Alstom Tech985.00-7.00764.00633.00-744.45-7.79-
Artemis UK Future Lead397.005.00404.00321.003.89443.28-9.47-
Aurora UK Alpha256.00-1.00279.00222.091.84286.90-10.14-
AVI Japan169.500.50194.00154.501.30177.23-3.31-
BG China Growth306.00-3.00331.04276.200.82332.99-9.32-
BG Euro124.00-133.0091.400.58134.91-8.42-
BASF Japan1056.00-4.001090.00811.100.951169.19-9.24-
BG Shin168.20-1.40176.00123.050.41186.30-8.86-
BG US Growth332.00-4.00369.50261.00-353.60-8.01-
Bailie Gifford UK225.00-1.00231.00180.122.76249.20-9.31-
Bankers IT148.40-0.80154.80121.791.90163.18-8.38-
Biotech Growth1706.00-28.001784.00868.00-1829.57-5.21-
SAB Bank Sml277.00-1.00289.50251.005.382672.222.89-
BcRt Energy & Res185.001.50205.00122.203.14194.26-4.93-
BcRt Front191.00-208.00164.503.98193.890.07-
BcRt GEur605.00-625.00506.951.18651.68-6.79-
BcRt Bkg824.00-240.00200.003.29261.21-9.57-
BcRt Snirr274.50-288.40230.802.89313.66-11.96-
Bcoo World Mining1022.00-1.401072.00836.002.331061.17-4.28-
Brunner1564.000.001584.001336.001.731736.97-10.39-
Caledonia Inv386.50-0.50402.00312.001.99584.29-34.79-
CanGen C$2729.34-15.062857.592165.092.4190.03-42.00-
City of Lon591.004.00599.00486.003.75578.971.90-
CCO NetRes429.005.00467.00208.336.80414.134.58-
Citi Healthcare137.80-0.90152.40113.363.83186.07-5.94-
CT Mgd130.50-135.00114.006.13132.72-1.33-
CT MgG325.00-330.00270.00-334.98-2.21-
CT CpM358.005.00373.00320.003.72373.88-3.96-
CT UK HIT 8109.00-120.0092.005.47120.69-8.73-
CT UK HIT Otd122.006.00126.0091.004.89126.43-0.23-
Enerplus Inc318.90-1.20322.00275.006.34255.46-8.45-
Edinburgh Inv861.00-8.00861.00737.603.72924.33-7.44-
Edin Worldwide259.50-1.00294.50188.20-279.02-8.74-
The Euro SmCo235.50-1.00247.21193.805.37256.59-9.27-
F&C Inv Trust348.20-0.80332.00325.801.23372.19-8.41-
Fiduci Srlncm616.00-1.00672.00541.003.33678.20-3.89-
Fidelity China261.00-2.50339.00241.013.45275.60-7.53-
Fidelity EmerMkts1472.00-10.001574.00836.001.351588.86-5.87-
Fidelity Euro438.50-0.50447.50367.502.26461.80-5.05-
Price+/- Dcy Chg52 WeekVol
HighLowYldP/E000s
Food & Beverages
AEP Plantations195.002.60229.00117.373.1211.49247.51
Assoc. Bitt Products2069.008.002539.001729.453.0414.61515.09
Ban (AS)608.000.00715.32499.003.0114.41149.57
Fevera139.00-8.00150.00114.501.736.0239.57
Coca-Cola HBC4616.0072.005195.003270.002.2220.84618.87
Cranovix®5430.0070.005810.004755.002.0718.3543.52
Diageo®1711.0052.002143.001295.002.0730.92481.16
Gazprom267.601.40307.50191.100.9220.271122.38
Kerry Group7170.05247.507646.355567.811.7220.948.75
Tate & Lyle553.50-0.50580.00319.433.5825.161356.22
Unilever®4782.50101.505542.113644.003.4512.91381.86

DN Store Nord1065.79-13.121461.29984.75-13.71983.46
Smith&Neph1082.0012.501441.501046.002.6920.461945.92
House, Leisure & Pers Goods
Barratt Redrow315.202.80410.29235.405.4323.1810832.29
Bellway214.0030.002890.001715.003.3616.142298.37
Carnival3566.0012.004442.002966.00-10.751184.60
Berberry Group1078.00-8.501376.50976.00--1893.72
Cairn Homes213.50-2.00228.00161.004.0111.71124.08
Cedar Workshop18510.0020.002,0540.4014670.0031.1028.6897.15
Gleeson (MJ)272.00-2.00435.00221.004.0410.0353.35
Headlam Group8.80-0.1076.004.64--0.091433.25
McBride186.803.00170.00108.201.808.55121.07
Mitsubishi2020.1121.682413.401796.303.6847.29818.92
PZ Cussons104.40-0.60114.0065.003.5422.21481.33
Vistry Group268.604.20746.40220.00-6.361060.90
Bodycote905.00-3.50935.00585.002.5729.19304.73
Goodwin18020.00-700.0028500.009292.591.5555.087.03
Hill & Smith2885.00-15.003220.001994.00-28.09103.91
IMI•3072.0018.003166.002216.001.1524.71587.00
Melrose•462.00-8.30685.00409.901.6215.932166.32
RHI2800.00-3390.001920.005.5017.9810.44
Weir2878.0062.003580.002254.001.4630.071373.31
Coats Group80.650.6598.1073.153.0318.611152.74
Macfarlane71.800.3099.0059.805.1018.00107.50
Smiths2610.0010.002754.182088.001.7930.461000.07
Industrial Transportation
Insurance
Admiral Group4000.0024.004006.002624.003.5816.23545.21
Aviva728.0010.80740.60590.605.5227.0612293.86
Chesnara330.004.00352.00264.586.82-65.35511.00
Ecclesiastical Insurance142.25-0.50155.00135.006.0630.27
Hansard Global54.003.0057.0043.208.2441.545.59
Hiscox+1832.0037.001904.001257.182.1113.82656.53
Lancashire Hldgs+608.50700.00549.002.766.86275.84
Legal & General+288.204.20318.10217.207.6028.8535033.41
Old Mutual57.60-0.2078.8053.807.056.39294.04
Prudential1042.5014.501238.00910.201.899.226258.18
Standard Life928.508.00948.50615.005.97-197.131179.21
Price+/- Dly Chg52 WeekP/EVol 000s
HighLowYld
BP Marsh678.00--710.00613.005.375.1020.39
Burlap Finland315.20-1.601054.00279.803.0014.8269.36
Premier Group39.25--67.0034.537.6450.3273.87
Food & Beverages
Camellia5650.00-100.006300.004800.004.60-30.260.20
Fevertree Drinks856.503.50973.00711.002.0245.61153.76
Nichols*1120.005.001275.00860.003.4719.09106.31
House, Leisure & Pers Goods
Churchill395.00-5.00460.00271.005.329.9510.24
Frontier Dev424.00-21.00588.56302.00--10.00124.08
Portmeiraion53.00--138.0047.14---1.110.76
Sanderson Design Gr78.001.0080.0040.001.9226.1732.35
Industrial Engineering
MS Int*1690.00100.001800.001120.001.5425.0749.49
Price+/-Chg52 WeekYldP/EDiv. P/E
HighLowYld
Fidelity Spec474.503.50477.50372.002.18470.520.77
Finsbury G&I836.008.00910.00706.252.42807.56-6.75
Finsale G & Co192.20-0.40198.90162.721.64203.10-4.54
GRTI (sup)1.25-1.251.25-14.40-91.32
Hansa336.00-2.00346.00250.001.31544.03-38.45
Hansa A325.00-5.00335.00244.001.35544.03-40.65
Hen FarEs259.500.50281.50229.009.65248.954.99
Hen High Inc209.003.00214.00173.255.32217.58-5.05
Hen Smir974.00-2.00998.00800.002.981066.29-8.41
Hancock2903.00-35.003290.732285.001.323287.34-9.45
HICL Infra139.80-0.60141.00107.206.08161.45-13.27
Impax Env442.00-3.00494.76379.001.15505.16-11.77
Indiotech1105.00-15.001235.00666.002.831189.69-3.66
Intl FP140.20-0.60145.80115.606.27150.74-6.71
Inv Asia Dragon Tst486.00-7.00519.00438.353.95521.61-7.90
Inv Bond Inc171.00-178.50150.117.16168.341.56
JPM Amer IT1206.00-6.001256.001041.000.951249.37-2.32
JPM Asia G&I570.00-12.00652.00397.395.46585.21-3.18
JPM China G&I271.00-3.50313.00258.005.00297.37-10.87
JPM Cleve982.0010.00986.00791.743.72990.12-1.24
JPM&D Core80.800.7086.6068.00.........
JPM Emrg EMEA245.001.50310.00181.650.2470.42240.65
JPM Emrg163.00-3.40181.20118.404.6278.57-9.05
JPM Eur Disc630.002.00666.00548.002.54684.58-8.06
JPM Eur G&I146.400.20153.00124.503.72149.39-2.21
JPM Em Mk Div206.001.00221.00148.002.91224.44-8.97
JPM Em S&I G&I614.501.50641.00478.904.04633.29-0.98
JPM India Gwth Inc866.00-10.001098.00799.005.12950.44-8.23
JPM Japan800.00-3.00867.00661.001.09865.88-5.69
JPM UK Sm358.00-0.50369.00287.924.17379.29-5.23
JPM US SmI434.50-5.50463.00365.000.74481.54-8.71
Law Deb1248.006.001290.00977.402.961228.901.67
New York Tsinh570.000.00798.00686.004.91696.89-19.88
Lowland186.00-0.50191.50145.503.64202.99-7.87
Marwyn Val138.50...137.78137.786.54251.52-44.93
Mercantile285.002.00289.00234.312.89315.29-9.51
Merch. Trst684.006.00687.00536.004.34716.76-5.15
Mid Wynd788.002.00804.00682.001.06806.99-1.69
M&T1588.00-0.501664.001565.000.961655.00-5.19
Montanaro Eur178.001.50189.00142.000.87192.90-8.86
Murray Inc1004.008.001036.00854.664.081067.35-6.41
Murray Intl371.000.50372.50293.003.45366.671.01
New Star IT140.50...148.00108.002.53198.80-29.08
N. Alt Sci Int'l430.00-2.00434.00328.001.63634.77-32.26
Par, Hertz1094.00-22.001292.00857.000.141289.74-11.10
Pure Assets552.002.00558.00511.001.01552.00-0.91
Polar Health451.00-4.00460.00336.800.49448.922.33
Polar Fin.251.00-3.00256.00199.16...253.08-0.87

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Price+ Day Chg52 WeekVol 400s
HighLowYld
Leisure
MC Group124.803.60208.0098.506.728.32
MPCO
Autotruk Grp542.40-4.40828.80418.602.1415.87
Informa+900.00-5.601000.00719.002.50-1910.00
ITV72.200.3587.3565.706.9312.24
Pearson+1225.0029.501337.00874.802.0923.83
RisDI+43.450.4574.0040.1013.58-1.04
Relivax+2652.00-40.008600.001961.002.6523.55
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Ferrexpo#28.58-87.2327.20--4.58-
Fresnillo*3200.00-19.004472.001657.003.4923.231063.09
Glencorex593.10-3.70707.20281.932.10-71996.58
Harmony1673.31-47.881963.66946.961.8715.803720.93
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BP●●533.70-15.80609.40399.354.6224659.15
Capricorn343.00384.00181.8016.7039.41
ExxonMobil Hldgs●11937.7012115.6011900.002.53
GeoPark●714.36716.56708.500.9411.88
Hellenic Energy1327.911327.911301.393.875.33370.73
Imperial Oil C$9990.99-133.9710397.166229.981.85273.38
TC Energy Corp4554.034556.684477.194.08-24.84420.72
AstraZeneca■12110.00-130.0015732.009892.001.9725.021791.68
Chemical Works3167.49-3167.493037.434.8816.100.02
GlaxoSmKline■1890.50-28.002282.001440.293.7013.405275.64
Hikma Pharm■1633.00-3.001865.001187.003.8612.23680.94
British Land428.80-451.60318.605.39--
Derwent London2078.0026.002196.001469.333.95--
Great Portland Est348.200.60377.00270.002.35-0.00
Land Securities687.500.50726.00522.505.99--
LondonMetric Prop194.001.00216.20175.306.47--
Primary Health Prop96.900.55109.6087.407.53--
Segro961.003.60997.40603.003.28--
Shaftesbury Capital150.10-0.80155.10124.102.868.035844.72
Tritax Big Box158.20-0.20175.00132.205.22--
Price+/- Dly Dsg52 WeekYldP/EVol 000s
HighLow
Retailers
Caffyns500.0050.00550.00350.002.00-12.291.21
Dunelm Group888.004.001248.00707.007.8811.50141.13
Halfords Group●233.000.50250.00123.803.8615.33368.98
Inchsp●823.00-7.50895.00640.504.0811.35341.98
JD Sports85.500.96106.1863.981.409.9110142.34
Kingfisher317.70-3.60372.30240.303.9022.69317.05
Marks & Spencer384.701.80418.33301.101.0930.292753.06
Saga683.008.00747.00192.80150.61
Sainsbury J335.602.10380.30292.274.0819.405597.87
Tesco461.204.00510.40411.703.1416.7716546.98
Grainger178.00-0.60205.00149.444.726.503113.96
Harworth Group180.00-0.80185.00116.800.9962.07112.82
Helical200.00-1.00236.25180.601.3141.4122.95
Mountview Estates8900.00200.0010200.008350.005.9017.050.01
Savills1060.0014.001142.00791.462.2220.38619.10
Sirius Real Estate96.700.30113.0086.805.667.462187.06
Smart (J)115.00-140.00106.002.838.80-
Benzel2798.0044.003986.001981.002.6519.84380.64
Capita290.009.00416.00215.00--2.01324.19
DCC Energy6365.00-5.006740.004188.00--382.02
Diploma7200.00-7765.004970.000.8852.21332.80
Essentra108.00-0.40115.2078.40-1.94-300.30
Experian=2963.0014.003987.002203.001.7524.561292.64
Hays72.500.3574.3026.680.61-19.924974.02
Howden Joinery800.502.50981.00713.002.7516.27806.19
Sansk5945.00-6960.00419.422.4226.80264.42
Johnson Service144.700.40172.10123.803.3215.56254.90
MITIE Group=208.600.60214.00134.802.1631.6128025.71
RS Group731.00-6.50752.50536.903.1321.13677.98
Vp468.00-13.00620.00420.008.44-33.9120.74
Price +/- Dly Chg52 WeekYldP/EVol 000s
HighLow
Media
Mission Group21.00-27.0012.00--0.997.79
Mining
Central Asia Metals157.801.80244.00125.277.60-5.061232.20
Crim Therapeutics11.500.2518.508.00--2.25112.78
Oil & Gas
BoeShtnPet10.900.2014.007.60--92.891473.18
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Sareum Holdings29.001.0030.009.50--12.08242.00
Retailers
Boohoo Group19.60-0.2029.5010.30--2.532382.01
CVS Group1292.00-4.001648.001062.000.6617.53154.49
Price-/-Chg Dsg52 WeekDiv.($)
HighLowYldNAV
Polar Tech.623.50-16.00743.50385.82...697.08
Right & Ins IT2460.00-10.002520.001955.131.842891.66
RIT Cap.2570.00-10.002945.001932.001.753106.00
Ruffer Inv Jr.298.00-1.00318.00281.262.083093.31
Schid AsiaPlc621.00-16.00892.00608.001.58910.07
Schid Asia/Total695.00-10.00738.00580.701.651225.00
Schroder Inc376.002.00378.75311.903.913961.91
Schdr. Japan377.001.00401.00276.003.214071.13
Schdr Orient.449.50-2.00463.00303.002.94462.60
Schdr UK Mid772.00-1.00782.00652.002.93820.95
Schdr American585.00-1.00572.00490.102.93886.67
Scot Mortgage1458.50-5.501563.001015.740.3115962.03
Scot Oriental270.00...305.00240.001.263003.31
Strategic Eq.359.50-1.50415.00330.001.18389.52
Strategic Bar422.50-1.00429.50344.003.69415.96
Tetragon475.47-1.60644.66892.943.52
TRIG-76.60-0.4080.5063.209.86100.39
UIL196.00...204.00204.004.08261.27
Ultine EmsMits279.003.00302.00243.003.47308.02
UW722.00-1.00865.00607.00...127.00
Worldwide Hlth391.00-4.00415.00320.006.61423.92
Tech - Software & Services
Computacenter5100.0015.005105.812234.001.4634.8194.96
NCC Group141.802.20161.60107.203.2825.32831.21
The Sage Grp1105.007.001181.00771.662.0329.283237.73
Triad Group*410.00-430.00236.002.2041.3323.21
AEW UK REIT106.00-0.20113.2095.907.55106.42-1.12
TR Prop306.50-1.00364.50291.005.25339.34-9.36
VCTs
Bmd 2nd VT44.6054.0039.508.9746.70-2.36
Nthn 2 VCT53.0056.5047.005.6655.40-4.33
Nthn 3 VCT82.0086.5079.505.4986.00-4.65
Nthn Venture56.0059.5053.005.5458.60-4.44
Zero Dividend Preference Shares
Conventional - Private equity
CT PrivEq490.00-6.00592.00439.845.76696.94-29.11
HGCapital420.001.00514.59318.641.19530.02-21.23
HVPE3340.00-20.003500.002745.004502.00-26.14
ICG Ent1486.00-4.001611.421288.312.832026.98-27.28
Pantheon Int387.500.50409.00322.50525.70-25.81
Partners PE €616.04-2.53945.52583.579.7211.57-37.60
Telecommunications
Airtel Africa336.008.80436.20212.081.5524.631678.98
BT Group*205.501.60242.09173.004.0518.688416.87
Telecom Plus*863.00-8.001914.00638.005.798.53168.76
Vodafone117.650.50131.1083.403.37-83.3429341.59
Tobacco
Aberforth GV117.50120.18109.50115.641.66
Investment Companies - AIM
Crys Amber85.50-0.50155.3984.00175.59-51.02
Brit Amer Tobacco4194.0063.005326.003677.005.8411.953059.43
Imperial Brands+2535.0032.003632.042476.006.5810.103913.70
Travel & Leisure
easyJet673.902.80683.80332.601.9610.243777.49
FirstGroup179.00-0.40227.80152.104.028.36923.80
Fullers 'A'742.00-10.00776.00550.002.8618.9233.65
IntConti Hotels+11936.60233.4213305.068618.001.1733.15399.91
Intl Cons Air432.209.30492.90332.701.577.085647.48
Whitbread2463.0039.003002.002098.003.9419.98926.53
Drax Group739.50-5.00937.50613.904.1035.72563.42
National Grid■1169.50-1.501428.501000.004.1517.869769.62
Pennon●462.400.60606.00439.406.3323.84403.53
Severn Trent3122.008.003335.002381.004.0425.28641.00
SSE●2371.00-15.002767.501597.002.9022.471226.48
Price+/- Dly Chg52 WeekYldP/EVol000s
HighLow
Support Services
Christie152.501.00165.0090.002.3030.0222.67
LonSec3650.00-3800.002100.002.6618.81-
NWF150.50-0.50187.50110.005.788.0935.17
Petards10.00-12.507.00--14.939.54
Renew952.001.00978.00772.002.1415.44186.68
Tech - Software & Services
Oxford Metrics39.00-0.8060.4037.508.33-70.91207.97
Travel & Leisure
Gaming Realms29.90-0.5052.0029.00-14.73551.86
Jet21541.0011.001676.00980.001.107.30370.18

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Algebra Global Credit Opportunities I USD$ 159.28-0.050.000.000.00
Algebra IG Financial Credit I EUR€ 120.41-0.010.004.126.59
Algebra IG Financial Credit R EUR€ 116.38-0.010.003.616.06
Algebra Strategic Credit Fund R EUR€ 116.06-0.030.002.730.00
Algebra Global Equity Select B EUR€ 154.53-0.410.009.5911.16
Algebra Global Equity Select R EUR€ 147.04-0.380.008.199.73

Artemis Corporate Bond I Acc118.71-0.090.005.306.53
Artemis Global Income I Dis241.10--1.270.002.170.50
Artemis High Income I Q Inc75.53-0.110.232.463.10
Artemis Income I Inc358.88-3.325.4812.2812.39
Artemis Monthly Dist I Inc102.16--0.270.0013.8813.75
Artemis Short-Dn Strat Bond133.93-0.010.006.437.45
Artemis SmartGARP Eur Eq I Acc1025.48-0.370.0028.6129.71
Artemis SmartGARP Global Small Co I Acc256.18-1.861.9514.6314.52
Artemis SmartGARP GlcEnv Eq I Acc343.63--3.560.0029.8924.98
Artemis SmartGARP Glc Eq I Acc798.92-0.160.0028.6526.65
Artemis SmartGARP UK Eq I Acc4826.22-26.972.4127.8625.26
Artemis Strategic Assets I Acc108.39--0.040.002.762.63
Artemis Strategic Bond I Q Acc126.16-0.014.466.787.11
Artemis UK Select Fund Class I Acc1501.64-16.390.0010.4721.52
Artemis UK Smaller Cos I Acc2639.10-8.221.814.849.43
Artemis UK Special Sits I Acc1260.64-8.880.0014.5016.16
Artemis US Extended Alpha I Acc576.96--0.790.0014.4517.87
Artemis US Select I Acc573.70--1.290.0019.2521.83
Artemis US Snirr Cos I Acc525.93-0.480.0016.5719.26

ASB Capital

www.asbc.com
ASB SUKUK - ACC$ 104.15-0.000.000.000.00
ASB SUKUK - DIST$ 97.58-0.000.500.000.00
ASB State Street Global Equity$ 125.21-0.000.000.000.00
ASB Global Technology$ 157.12-0.680.000.000.00
ASB MENA Equity$ 100.08-0.000.000.000.00
American Dynamic$ 9569.53-0.000.000.000.00
American One$ 11230.76-0.000.0010.7511.36
Bond Global€ 1645.86-0.000.001.336.28
Eurocroissance€ 1335.96-0.000.000.000.00
Far East$ 1284.73-0.000.000.000.00

Blue Whale Investment Funds ICAVwww.bluewhale.co.uk info@bluewhale.co.uk(IRE)
FCA Recognised-Ireland UCITS
Blue Whale Growth USD T$24.72-0.010.000.000.00

Brown Advisory Funds PLC

FCA Recognised
Global Leaders Fund USD C$ 33.29-0.290.008.5411.20
Global Leaders Sustainable Fund USD C$ 19.50-0.180.007.4310.10
Global Sustainable Total Return Bond GBP B£ 9.46-0.000.000.000.00
Global Sustainable Total Return Bond USD B$ 10.89--0.010.000.000.00
US Equity Growth Fund USD B$ 77.53-0.510.008.0510.62
US Flexible Equity Fund USD B$ 42.77-0.250.0011.4515.39
US Mid Cap Growth Fund USD C$ 25.54-0.300.009.499.70
US Small Cap Blend Fund USD B$ 32.10-0.110.009.9011.10
US Smaller Companies Fund USD B$ 48.17-0.140.008.957.74
US Sustainable Growth Fund USD C$ 40.85-0.250.008.0412.03
US Sustainable Value Fund USD C Acc$ 18.34-0.160.000.000.00

Canaccord WEALTH

Canaccord Wealth International Multi Strategy Funds Limited
Balanced Strategy£1.18-0.000.0011.7811.30
Balanced Strategy A£1.18-0.001.848.538.72
Cautious Balanced Strategy£1.47-0.000.919.289.17
Cautious Balanced Strategy A£1.06-0.001.846.867.30
Growth Strategy£2.66-0.010.760.975.38
Growth Strategy A£1.27-0.010.5410.2910.89
High Growth Strategy GBP£3.91-0.020.2414.5814.77
High Growth Strategy A£1.34-0.010.5212.1712.16
High Income Bond Fund B Monthly£0.99-0.000.000.000.00
High Income Bond Fund B Quarterly£1.00-0.000.000.000.00
US$ Growth Strategy$2.58-0.000.2115.6715.58

Dealing Daily. Initial Charge Nil for A classes and up to 2% for other classes.

CANDRIAM BY NEW YORK LIFE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

Candriam Investors Group(LUX)
FCA Recognised
Candriam Alts Ret Eqt Mkt Neutral-C Cap227.78-0.570.001.913.53
Candriam Bds Euro High Yield Cap1453.98--0.110.004.225.90
Candriam Bonds Glbl Hi Yield - C Cap290.73-0.160.003.855.53
Candriam Bonds Glbl Infl Dltston-I Cap166.82--0.200.002.673.04
Candriam Bonds Total Return-C Cap144.28--0.100.002.182.82
Candriam Diversified Futures-I Cap13811.15-142.510.00-0.39-2.01
Candriam Eqx L Australia Cap ASA$2502.50-26.550.005.346.58
Candriam Eqx L Emerging Mkts Cap1508.33--22.430.0025.8419.12
Candriam Equities L Biotech-C Cap$1474.59-12.460.0020.5820.78
Candriam Equities L Europe Innov-R Cap283.16-1.910.004.65-1.88
Candriam Index Arbitrage - C Cap1531.98-0.820.001.492.57
Candriam Long Short Credit-R Cap120.51--0.030.003.053.87
Candriam Risk Arbitrage-C Cap2757.16-0.250.003.154.00
Candriam Sust Bond Emerg Mkts I Dist$775.20-0.000.005.372.62
Candriam Sust Bond Euro Corp R Cap111.66--0.010.002.864.46
Candriam Sust GlbHighYield-I Cap1265.36-0.500.003.364.58
Candriam Eq Crl Econ-R Cap$163.06-0.000.005.514.56
Candriam Eq Cmlt Action-I Cap$2162.27-5.840.0012.608.54
Candriam Sust Eq Emerging Mkts C Cap183.76--2.430.0023.8115.60
Candriam Sust Eq EMU-C Cap223.32-1.510.007.647.33
Candriam Sust Eur S&M Caps-I Cap2486.21-26.040.00-0.650.10
Candriam Sust Eq World-C Cap46.37-0.240.0011.5713.40
NYUM GF US High YieldCorp Bond-R Cap$174.45-0.090.005.787.02
Other International Funds
Candiram Bds Euro Sh. Term Cap2192.57--0.070.002.32
Candiram Bonds Credit Opportunities222.08-0.030.002.78
Candiram Bonds Emerg Mkt-C-Cap3108.42--0.180.007.15
Candiram Equities L Eurp Opt Olt 4-Cap259.19-1.730.007.51
Candiram Equities L Global Demg R Cap387.07-1.680.009.71
Candiram Equities Onco impt A-Cap3773.11-37.440.007.62
Candiram Equities L Robt&InnTech I Cap7800.86-34.560.0028.48
FCA Recognised
VT Cantab Balanced A GBP Acc140.41-0.341.809.889.26
VT Cantab Moderate A GBP Acc138.80-0.262.129.388.24
VT Cantab Sustainable Gbl Eq A GBP Acc172.65-1.251.3710.089.96
CG Portfolio Fund PLC
Absolute Return M Inc£144.28-0.002.613.032.48
Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP P£39483.25--10.141.952.932.33
Capital Gearing Portfolio GBP V£192.06--0.051.942.942.33
Dollar Fund Cis D Inc£151.24--0.162.82-1.68-2.68
Dollar Hedged GBP Inc£94.48--0.232.540.90-0.02
Real Return Cis A Inc£182.20--0.192.55-0.94-2.42
UK Index-Linked Bond G Inc£105.03--0.022.100.770.00
Other International Funds
CAM-GTF VCC$ 459918.3049918.300.000.000.493.79
CAM Gri VCC$ 1440.68-0.000.0020.884.69
RAIC VCC$ 1.89-0.000.008.97-1.66

Chartered Asset Management Pte Ltd

International Mutual Funds
CP Multi-Strategy Fund$465.42-0.230.0012.21

CP Capital Asset Management Limited

International Mutual Funds
CP Dual-Purpose Fund$ 213.06--0.060.000.000.00
CP Global Alpha Fund$ 507.35--0.150.0011.3812.78
CPS-Master Private Fund$ 613.16--0.020.0011.1712.62

Dodge & Cox® Worldwide Funds

Emerging Markets Stock Fund A USD Acc$16.29-0.180.0027.9225.09
Emerging Markets Stock Fund A GBP Acc£16.88-0.160.0024.0021.47
Emerging Markets Stock Fund D GBP Dis£15.27-0.141.6921.4518.96
Emerging Markets Stock Fund A EUR Acc16.95-0.191.5123.6521.88
EUR Accumulating Class18.09--0.010.002.753.74
EUR Accumulating Class (H)12.20--0.010.004.254.48
EUR Distributing Class11.16-0.000.00-1.88-0.93
EUR Distributing Class (H)7.46--0.015.05-0.54-0.25
GBP Distributing Class£11.70--0.024.75-1.65-1.34
GBP Distributing Class (H)£8.45-0.004.701.361.32
USD Accumulating Class$15.24--0.010.006.286.49
CHF Distributing Class (H)Str7.62-0.000.00-2.87-2.72
USD Accumulating Share Class$50.31-0.390.0016.5318.09
GBP Accumulating Share Class£60.64-0.400.0012.9514.65
GBP Distributing Share Class£38.95-0.250.0010.3613.10
EUR Accumulating Share Class64.70-0.510.0012.7412.86
GBP Distributing Share Class (H)£21.66-0.170.0014.4215.70
USD Distributing Class$20.57-0.160.0014.9116.43
CAD Accumulating ClassC$65.37-0.400.0016.8618.55
USD Accumulating Share Class$61.56-0.420.0014.2816.64
GBP Accumulating Share Class£70.17-0.390.0010.7813.24
GBP Distributing Share Class£40.88-0.230.009.9412.34
EUR Accumulating Share Class68.35-0.470.007.7411.37
GBP Distributing Share Class (H)£23.27-0.160.0012.8915.15
USD Distributing Class$22.55-0.150.0013.4215.69

DRAGON CAPITAL

Dragon Capitalwww.dragoncapital.comFund Information:info@dragoncapital.com
Other International Funds
Vietnam Equity (UCITS Fund A USD)$35.94-0.370.006.30 0.00
Authorised Inv Funds
EdenTree Global Impact Bond86.87--0.014.17-0.45
EdenTree Green Impact Equity134.90-0.000.908.65
EdenTree Green Impact Infrastructure78.48--0.086.69-2.69
EdenTree Global Sustainable Government Bond96.90--0.043.090.00
EdenTree Sustainable European Equity A497.40-1.801.8513.63
EdenTree Sustainable European Equity B502.70-1.800.0013.59
EdenTree Sustainable Global Equity A458.00-0.800.539.91
EdenTree Sustainable Global Equity B462.00-0.800.949.85
EdenTree Sustainable Managed Income A141.40-0.304.015.90
EdenTree Sustainable Managed Income B153.30-0.403.986.39
EdenTree Sustainable Short-Dated Bond95.88-0.044.570.44
EdenTree Sustainable Sterling Bond A85.02-0.044.97-0.41
EdenTree Sustainable Sterling Bond B98.12-0.044.970.19
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity A252.70-1.701.745.87
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity B251.90-1.602.113.87
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity Opp A328.40-1.601.463.28
EdenTree Sustainable UK Equity Opp B335.20-1.701.913.21

Brock Dealers: GB 414 181
GEIC Funds
Alloretor World Fund W-Acc-GBP£4.31-0.000.9916.04 16.10
American Fund W-Acc-GBP£84.69-0.450.009.21 12.28
American Special Sits W-Acc-GBP£29.36-0.200.414.29 8.18
Asia Funds W-Acc-GBP£28.49--0.610.5131.74 21.72
Asia Pacific Opps W-Acc£3.45--0.040.679.15 5.51
Asian Dividend Fund W-Acc-GBP£3.65--0.032.0421.86 16.44
Cash Fund W-Acc-GBP£1.21-0.003.830.00 0.00
China Fund W-Accumulation-GBP£2.50--0.061.5013.18 -0.18
Emerging Mkts NAV1579.41-0.000.000.00 0.00
Enhanced Income Fund W-In-CGBP£0.95-0.016.07-1.45 -1.96
European Fund W-Acc-GBP£32.47-0.111.435.71 7.59
Global High Income Bond W-Acc-GBP£1.58-0.005.735.37 7.24
Sustainable Euro Equity Fund W-ACC-GBP£7.36-0.021.147.81 7.92
Sustainable Global Equity Fund W-ACC-GBP£43.22-0.150.306.26 6.96
Japan Fund W-ACC-GBP£10.26--0.020.9320.82 18.97
Select 50 Balanced Fund P-Acc-GBP£1.55-0.012.150.00 0.00
Special Situations Fund W-ACC-GBP£74.15-0.502.2417.55 18.92
Short Dated Corp Bond Fund W-ACC-GBP£12.68-0.014.660.00 0.00
Sustainable Water & Waste W-ACC-GBP£126.60-0.000.007.94 1.31
Sustainable Water & Waste W-InC-GBP£124.00-0.000.000.00 0.00
UK Select Fund W-ACC-GBP£4.79-0.021.685.00 8.13
Global Dividend Fund W-ACC-GBP£4.62-0.012.4813.94 14.90
Global Enhanced W-ACC-GBP£3.59-0.014.1413.68 14.31
Global Special Sits W-ACC-GBP£90.84--0.110.2016.93 16.15
Index Emerging Markets P-ACC-GBP£2.79--0.031.6423.61 17.40
Index Europe ex UK Markets P-ACC-GBP£3.02-0.012.0615.24 13.72
Index Japan P-ACC-GBP£3.17--0.011.5217.06 16.23
Index Pacific ex Japan P-ACC-GBP£2.66-0.012.6015.67 11.79
Index Sterling Corp Bond Fund P-ACC-GBP£0.96-0.005.140.00 0.00
Index UK P-ACC-GBP£2.53-0.022.6316.77 15.76
Index US P-ACC-GBP£6.10-0.030.8714.64 16.99
Index World P-ACC-GBP£4.63-0.021.1615.35 16.39
MoneyBuilder Balanced Fund W-Acc-GBP£0.79-0.002.900.00 0.00
MoneyBuilder Dividend Fund W-Acc-GBP£1.66-0.013.57-0.89 -1.54
Sust. MoneyBuilder Inc Fd Fund W-ACC-GBP£14.22-0.004.463.30 5.38
Multi Asset Altic Adventurous Fd W-ACC-GBP ££3.20-0.001.1413.53 13.47
Multi Asset Altic Defensive Fd W-ACC-GBP£1.58-0.000.006.34 5.90
Multi Asset Altic Growth Fd W-ACC-GBP£2.57-0.001.1210.92 10.78
Multi Asset Altic Strategic Fd W-ACC-GBP£2.03-0.001.177.70 8.02
Multi Asset Balanced Inc Fd W-InC-GBP£1.04-0.000.004.06 3.42
Multi Asset Inc & Growth Fund W-InC-GBP£1.33-0.002.4311.43 9.20
Multi Asset Income Fund W-InC-GBP£0.92-0.000.002.98 2.10
Multi Asset Open Advent W-ACC-GBP£2.51-0.011.6712.83 11.83
Multi Asset Open Defen W-ACC-GBP£1.67-0.000.008.60 7.31
Multi Asset Open GrowthFund W-ACC-GBP£2.34-0.011.8012.28 11.28
Multi Asset Open Staat Fund W-ACC-GBP£1.99-0.012.3910.14 9.02
Open World Fund W-Acc-GBP£3.43-0.010.8313.40 13.17
Strategic Bond Fund P-Acc-GBP£1.39-0.003.564.32 5.47
Index UK Gilt Fund P-Acc-GBP£0.77-0.004.452.07 2.23
Sustainable Asia Equity Fund W-ACC-GBP£2.75--0.040.7623.86 13.98
Sust Multi Asset Balanced Fund W-ACC-GBP£1.22-0.001.300.00 0.00
Sust Multi Asset Con. Fd W-ACC-GBP£1.08-0.000.000.00 0.00
Sust Multi Asset Growth Fd W-ACC-GBP£1.33-0.001.140.00 0.00
UK Opportunities Fund W-ACC-GBP£2.75-0.032.130.00 0.00
UK Smaller Companies W-ACC-GBP£4.91-0.032.294.90 9.37

MANAGED FUNDS SERVICE

Bid Offer +/- Yield 24m 36m Fund

Fundsmith Equity Fund

Fundsmith LLP (1200)F PO Box 10846, Chelmsford Essex CM99 2BW 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk, enquiries@fundsmith.co.uk

Authorised Inv Funds
Fundsmith Equity T Acc696.54-1.790.000.37
Fundsmith Equity T Inc628.67-1.620.0013.89

McInroy & Wood Portfolios Limited Easter Alderston, Haddington EH41 3SF 01620 825867

Marwyn Asset Management Limited(CYM)
Regulated
Marwyn Value Investors£362.11-0.000.000.000.00
Guinness Global Investors
Guinness Global Equity Income Y GBP Dis£24.92-0.262.059.5611.16
Guinness Global Innovators Y GBP ACC£46.98-0.290.0012.0115.57
Guinness Global Quality Mid Cap Y Gbp Acc£15.89-0.110.0012.0611.40
International Insurances
Holiday Property Bond Ser 1£0.49-0.000.00-0.41
Holiday Property Bond Ser 2£0.66-0.000.001.40

Janus Henderson INVESTORS

Authorised Inv Funds
Balanced Fund Acc:7012.20-11.501.754.960.00
Balanced Fund Inc6620.70-10.801.783.243.09
Emerging Markets Fund ACC2313.00-1.801.742.120.00
Emerging Markets Fund Inc2084.10-1.601.760.36-1.93
Income Fund Acc3644.70-1.802.687.300.00
Income Fund Inc3231.00-1.502.764.153.88
Smaller Companies Fund Acc:7299.50-46.601.214.850.00
Smaller Companies Fund Inc6862.30-43.801.223.603.97
Ministry of Justice Common Investment Funds(UK)
Property & Other UK Unit Trusts
The Equity Idx Tracker Fd Inc2684.00-9.002.0011.6611.39
Distribution Units
Authorised Corporate Director-Waystone Management (UK) Limited
Global Total Fd PCG A704.54-5.340.4215.0718.45
Global Total Fd PCG B693.73-5.240.0014.9918.39
Global Total Fd PCG INT676.69-5.100.0014.8218.21
Purisima Investment Fds (CI) Ltd(JER)
Regulated
PCG B572.79--6.570.0016.8820.87
PCG C552.70--6.340.0016.6220.60


Royal London 80 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BY

Purisima Investment Fds (UK) (1200)F 3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL Order Desk and Enquiries:0345 922 0044 Authorised Inv Funds

Authorised Inv Funds
Royal London Sustainable Diversified A Inc284.80-1.101.544.516.11
Royal London Sustainable World A Inc505.20-2.300.7610.8111.75
Royal London Corporate Bond Mth Income76.83-0.064.440.321.29
Royal London European Growth Trust297.10-1.401.1411.5211.34
Royal London Sustainable Leaders A Inc1026.00-9.001.478.688.05
Royal London UK Growth Trust880.30-6.801.6911.9111.43
Royal London UK Income With Growth Trust259.20-1.203.838.268.36
Royal London US Growth Trust649.60--0.900.0113.9017.13
Janus Henderson Investors(UK)
P.O. Box 9023, Cholmsford CMW 2WB Enquiries 0800 832 832www.janushenderson.com
Authorised Inv Funds
Janus Henderson Absolute Return Fund A Acc206.70-0.202.105.566.56
Janus Henderson Asian Divi Inc Unit Trst Inc100.00--0.905.6011.679.09
Janus Henderson Cautious Mngf Fund A Acc357.80-1.403.806.948.33
Janus Henderson Cautious Mngf Fund A Inc153.50-0.503.903.483.53
Janus Henderson China Opp Fund A Acc1295.00--28.000.1020.185.32
Janus Henderson Emerging Markets Asia A Acc1835.00--38.000.0023.6117.20
Janus Henderson Emerg. Mkts Opps Fnd A Acc299.50--5.200.0019.5614.99
Janus Henderson European Focus A Acc610.90-2.300.100.000.00
Janus Henderson Euro. Sel Opps Fund A Acc3241.00-15.000.2010.7510.65
Janus Henderson Fixed Int Mthly Inc Fd Inc17.06-0.005.900.18-0.25
Janus Henderson Global Equity Inc Fnd Inc98.08-0.452.3010.219.23
Janus Henderson Global Select Fund Acc6537.00-4.000.0010.1815.16
Janus Henderson Global Sust Equity Fd A Inc711.40-2.300.009.4812.53
Janus Henderson Global Tech Ldrs Fnd A Acc6861.00-8.000.0022.9426.56
Janus Henderson Inst UK Index Opps A Acc179.36-1.182.1016.4915.56
Janus Henderson Multi-Astt Abir Rtn Fd A Acc189.30-0.502.704.884.69
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Acvt Fd A Acc335.00-0.001.808.408.82
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Dist Fd A Inc136.40--0.702.803.403.04
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Div Fd A Acc105.80-0.003.406.206.56
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Gbl Sel Fd A Acc436.40--0.500.008.9910.63
Janus Henderson MultiMgtInc&Gwth FdA Acc231.70-0.002.706.836.80
Janus Henderson Multi-MgtInc&Gwth Fd A Inc160.80--0.902.803.573.38
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Mngf Fd A Acc403.60-0.001.507.908.29
Janus Henderson Multi-Mgr Mngf Fd Inc372.30-0.001.206.506.80
Janus Henderson Sterling Bond Unit Trust Acc229.30-0.204.302.684.59
Janus Henderson Sterling Bond Unit Trust Inc55.38-0.044.30-0.060.72
Janus Henderson Strategic Bond Fund A Inc95.47-0.015.70-1.07-1.85
Janus Henderson UK Alpha Fund A Acc199.90-1.301.209.4613.42
Janus Henderson UK Eq Inc & Growth Fd A Inc707.30-4.503.309.9911.71
Janus Henderson US Growth Fund A Acc2969.00-25.000.0011.0114.98

Additional Funds Available Please see www.royallondon.com for details

Nutshell Asset Management Ltd(IRL)
Nutshell Asset Management Ltd, Ivybridge House, 1-5 Adam Street, London WC2N 6LEwww.nutshellam.com
Authorised Inv Funds
Nutshell Growth Fund Gbp Inst Founder£186.23-1.880.0015.0916.62

Regulated
Oasis Crescent Global Eq Fd (USD) A (Dist)$58.47-0.480.0021.34
Oasis Crescent Global Inc Fd (USD) A Dist$10.24-0.000.000.62
Oasis Crescent Low Equity Fund (USD) D Dist$16.60-0.060.0011.93
Oasis Crescent Med Equity Fd (USD) A Dist$19.53-0.120.0014.39
Oasis Crescent Prop Equity Fd (USD) A Dist$11.18-0.020.0012.06
Oasis Crescent Short Term Inc Fd (USD) A (Dist)$0.96-0.000.000.80
Oasis Crescent Variable Fund (USD) A (Dist)£12.42-0.080.008.57
Private Fund Mgrs (Guernsey) Ltd(GSY)
Regulated
Monument Growth 11/08/2026£612.89638.710.001.363.263.09

Ruffer LLP (1000) F 3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL Order Desk and Enquiries: 0345 601 9610 Authorised Inv Funds

WBS Ruffer Total Return C Acc596.60-0.001.794.403.53
WS Ruffer Total Return C Inc348.66-0.001.823.211.51

SICO BSC BHRTelephone - +973 1751 5700Website - www.sicobank.com
(BHR)
Khaleej Equity Fund$583.47--3.930.00-3.81
Sico Gulf Equity Fund$198.62-0.170.0010.57
SICO Capital KSATelephone - +966 11 521 3835Website - www.sicocapital.com(KSA)
SICO Kingdom Equity FundSAR10.66--0.270.001.39-
SICO MENA Equity FundSAR21.34-0.130.00-1.374.80
SICO Capital Money MarketSAR13.92--0.030.00--

Bid Offer +/- Yield 24m 36m

Stonehage Fleming Investment Management Ltd(IRL)
www.stonehagefleming.com/gbi enquiries@stonehagefleming.com
SF Global Best Ideas Eq B USD Acc$307.20-2.010.005.727.41
SF Global Best Ideas Eq D GBP Inc£342.08-2.440.002.574.35

Superfund Asset Management GmbH

Superfund Trend Gold$ 2028.42-82.670.0038.5231.78
Superfund Trend Silver$ 2239.85-85.060.0059.8442.21
Superfund Trend$ 809.37-14.390.0010.885.76
Superfund Bitcoin 0-2x€ 83.15-0.000.00-2.3310.17
Superfund Fund-of-Funds$ 157.85-0.000.0018.2317.41
Superfund Blockchain22.48-1.400.0014.2428.26
Superfund Gold Silver + Mining21.69-0.500.0035.69-
Superfund Quadriga All Seasons15.32-0.110.0017.9917.52
Superfund InflationSFr11.67-0.090.0013.914.56

Troy Asset Management (1200)(UK)
3rd Floor, Central Square, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL
Order Desk and enquiries 0345 608 0950
Authorised Inv Funds

Authorised Corporate Director-Waystone Management (UK) Limited

Trojan Investment Funds
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Powerful study of racial violence


From left: Julian Rozzell, Bryce Foley and Kamal Bolden in Zora Howard's 'Hang Time' — Andrew Perry

THEATRE

Hang Time Edinburgh International Festival ★★★★★

Tim Bano

The theme Nicola Benedetti has chosen for this year's Edinburgh International Festival is the 250th anniversary of US independence. Some programming choices cleave more faithfully to that American theme than others — a world premiere opera about the opioid crisis, a stark revival of Angels in America — but it's the short shock of Hang Time by Zora Howard that meets it in both the most direct and most subtle ways.

In its slow opening, the curtain parts to show three Black men hanging from an invisible gibbet. Their feet dangle in the air, their heads slumped. The still scene is accompanied only by the ephemeral sounds of time passing: dogs barking, birds crowing, shifting light. Then they wake up and start to talk.

Their conversation is the kind of light, guyish chat that fills dead time. Kamal Bolden's Slim boasts of the beautiful women he has slept with, occasionally breaks into song and needles the crotchety elder, Bird (Julian Rozzell), about whether Muddy Waters or Freddie King is the better blues musician. Rozzell's wary Bird offers the sage and cautious advice of an elder, and young Blood (Bryce Foley) dreams of breaking out of whatever town they're in.

There is joshing, joking, recounting of polished old anecdotes, plenty of dreaming. The implication is that they've known each other for years. But it is all implication. What town are they in? No idea. Could be any American community, any time. Nothing is explained. Not the circumstances that have brought them there, nor the place or the era, nor much about these three men.

And why, intermittently, mid-chit-chat, do they squirm on their gibbets, and seem to die again and again?

There is the occasional detail to latch on to. Blood has saved \$1,000 to travel. He talks about how none of the others in the town have ever lived. “The most they look forward to is Easter Sunday,” he laments, when they can wear their best shoes. “I can’t live my whole life waiting for my whole life.”

It is easy to be swept up in his dream. Foley's hard-set face, his determination and his optimism are simply those of a young man. Then you remember where he is, and how it's already too late.

That is where the play derives its power, both from those brutal contrasts between its confronting conceit and the banal humour of their patter, but also in the vast worlds of suggestion and subtext Howard pushes under the surface of these idle conversations. Somehow, in the just an hour, we get to know something essential about these men, both as individuals and what they represent.

Directing too, Howard keeps them still except for their heads, which can only loll from one to the other side as if restricted by a noose. Whenever one becomes angry, emotional or agitated in any way, there is the squeak of a tightening rope and his eyes begin to pop, his body tenses up, agony fills his face.

The implication is clear. They are stuck in a state of eternal lynching, or being tamed, the way you might train a dog not to bark, the metaphor of the piece in such awful proximity to the thing it is representing.

"Pretty day," says Blood. "Quiet."

"The world at peace," Bird replies.

In the long, inconsequential stretches of this play, you can almost believe it. But that is its most horrifying aspect. All this peace, this humour, aspiration and comradeship – until the noose tightens again.

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A Beautiful Obsession Prime Video ★★★★☆

Murray Withers

A heartbreaking separation, changing-room rows and a star player's tears are all on display in A Beautiful Obsession, a new Prime Video show about Pep Guardiola's final two seasons as manager of Manchester City.

Streaming platforms have invested heavily in football club documentaries, commissioning or making their own such as Amazon MGM Studios' All or Nothing series. Netflix's Sunderland 'Til I Die, whose first season came out in 2018, set a high bar that most did not follow. But the latest City series does not sugarcoat the elite world these shows portray. The focus is on a despairing Guardiola as he reels from a dire run of results just months after a historic fourth consecutive Premier League title.

The involvement of director Kevin Macdonald, who won an Oscar for One Day in September, about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes in Munich, helps elevate the production from the typical club hagiography. He teamed up with City Studios, the club's in-house content operation, and the Banijay-owned Workerbee for the four-part series.

One innovation pushed by Macdonald and co-director John De Caux is the inclusion of voice notes between the club's chief executive Ferran Soriano and chair Khaldoon al-Mubarak. The notes augment startling footage that exposes deep strains as City keep losing games. The perception of repeated criticism from Guardiola angers captain Kyle Walker and leads to his exit midway through the 2024-25 season. Midfielder Kevin De Bruyne cries as he describes “the tough time for us as a family” after he was not offered a deal to stay. Manuel Estiarte, Guardiola’s adviser, tells the players about his boss’s divorce, so they can “see the human being”.


Changing-room drama: Pep Guardiola gives a team talk

The self-inflicted marks on Guardiola's head, the subject of rival fans' ridicule during that torrid late 2024 run, heal as qualification for the Champions League is sealed. But the frustrations continue into his final season.

In a remarkable soliloquy to his players after a loss to Bayer Leverkusen in November, he references the damage done to his personal life in the service of the club and impugns the players for not matching his sacrifice.

"I work for you. I leave my life, my divorce and my family is away. And what do you give back?" he asks. "When I see that [performance] I'm exhausted, I'm drained. I want to quit."

As fans clamour for content from their clubs, the pressure to strip back the scripted veneer increases. Some City fans were left nonplussed by a Netflix documentary about the club's treble-winning season, as midseason defeats were dressed up as heartache.

The softer focus of typical sporting documentary fare does return as the team wins two domestic cups, while there is no discussion of the still unresolved financial charges against the club by the Premier League. Manchester City deny wrongdoing.

Yet it is the desperate tone of a half-time talk in a must-win game at Bournemouth where it becomes clear Guardiola's race is run. "All stories arrive to the end," the manager says as he prepares to leave.

The film shows the need for more unfiltered stories to keep fans coming back to the streaming platforms – and for stories to resonate beyond a club's fan base.

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For decades the country's exporters focused on adding value to their high-end products, but US tariffs, the fragmentation of global trade and the strong franc are now hitting them harder. By Mercedes Ruehl

W hen US President Donald Trump hit Switzerland with tariffs last year, Nabil Francis's first reaction was shock.

"It was a wake-up call," says Francis, the chief executive of Felco, a company known for its high-quality garden tools. "You understood that the world was changing when Switzerland was treated differently to the EU."

For generations, Felco has made its signature red-handled secateurs at its base among the green hills of the French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel. Around 95 per cent of production is exported, with the family-owned group counting King Charles of the UK and US former first lady Michelle Obama among its customers.

Suddenly, it faced a tariff of 39 per cent on shipments to its single biggest market, compared with a 15 per cent levy applied to EU-based rivals. But Francis's response was not to move production to cheaper countries, nor to make Felco's shears cheaper.

Instead, it was to make them more expensive and more desirable, adding options such as leather-wrapped handles, gold-coated blades and laser-engraved personalisation.

Felco's strategy of doubling down on quality is typical of Switzerland, where manufacturing still accounts for almost 19 per cent of GDP, twice the contribution from its celebrated financial services industry. The white cross on a red background, emblazoned on products from Heule precision tools to Caran D'Ache pencils, is both a guarantee of quality that is understood worldwide, and a valuable marketing device.

But the playbook is becoming more difficult to execute as the franc appreciates and major trading partners turn to protectionism and tariffs. Moves to increase flexibility by creating additional definitions of Swissness besides “Swiss Made” have provoked a backlash from lawmakers and manufacturers.

'If you look back at where the franc exchange rate was and where it is now, it is a wonder Swiss companies still exist'

Switzerland this year slipped from first to third in a ranking of global competitiveness by IMD, the business school, while its economic performance ranking plunged from 13th to 37th.

"The Swiss model is hardly sustainable in a world that is more fragmented and more protectionist," says Arturo Bris, professor of finance at IMD.

Swissmem, the country's largest industrial association, described 2025 as a "lost year" in which sales stagnated and 6,600 tech-industry jobs disappeared. A tentative but uneven recovery is now under way, it added.

Back in Neuchâtel, Francis acknowledges there is “a limit to everything” in terms of premiumisation. But Felco has not yet reached it; a new range, set for launch in September, swaps the famous red for anodised aluminium in bold colours such as Electric Blue, Power Green, Pink Passion and Tangerine Blaze.

He wants to turn the humble pruning shear into a "lifestyle object" like Le Creuset, whose brightly coloured cookware is a kitchen style statement.

The focus will remain resolutely upmarket. "If you are an industrial company producing in Switzerland and exporting, you're not going to shoot at the mass market," says Francis.

"At that game, you will always lose."

The industrial outlier

A landlocked country of 9mn people, with few natural resources and some of the world's highest wages, is not an obvious starting point for a manufacturing success story.

But the Swiss made it work. Companies responded to high wages and an appreciating currency by becoming more productive, more specialised, more sophisticated and more expensive, while focusing on global markets rather than their small domestic one.

“Swiss Made” became shorthand for the result: watches, machinery and precision tools good enough that customers around the world would pay extra for them. One of the results is an economy unusually rich in relatively small companies that dominate particular niches.

They range from VAT, a maker of vacuum valves used in semiconductor production, to Burckhardt Compression and specialists such as Rondo, whose machines shape dough into pastries in bakeries around the world.

The resilience of such hidden champions has helped the Alpine country to resist much of the deindustrialisation that has swept through western Europe. Switzerland has the highest proportion

The growing threats to 'Swiss Made'

of high-tech manufacturing of any of the OECD's 38 member countries.

That strength is underpinned by an unusually deep apprenticeship system. About two-thirds of young Swiss pursue vocational education and training, most learning partly inside companies, supplying employers with skilled workers.

Bern pushed its commitment to open markets still further in January 2024 when it unilaterally abolished all tariffs on imports of industrial goods. The government argued that cheaper imported components would reduce costs for Swiss manufacturers.

Bernina workers make sewing machines in Steckborn in the 1960s. The company cited the strong franc and difficult conditions in the US for its decision to move its serial production to Thailand. Below right: a pair of secateurs made by Felco, whose response to Trump's tariffs was to make their goods more desirable – and expensive FT montage/Alamy

But its vision of a liberal, export-driven success story is increasingly at odds with a more protectionist world. US tariffs are encouraging companies to manufacture closer to American customers, while China has long supported industries deemed strategic and Europe has responded with subsidies and policies favouring production inside the EU.

The franc remains a persistent handicap for Switzerland's exporters. Its status as a haven currency means it tends to strengthen in periods of uncertainty – the financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East all served to make Swiss products more expensive abroad.

"If you look back a couple of years at where the franc exchange rate was and where it is now, it is a wonder Swiss com-"

The change followed a long-running dispute involving On, the Zurich-based maker of sports shoes backed by former tennis star Roger Federer, which had been putting a Swiss cross on shoes made in Asia.

On said it manufactures abroad because the supply chain for large-scale production does not exist in Europe. But it argues that much of the value in its products – design, engineering, technology and intellectual property – is created in Switzerland, and that ing the famous white-on-red cross, such as “Swiss Engineering” or “Swiss Research”, subject to certain conditions, after the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) loosened its interpretation of the Swissness rules in March, citing the strong franc and US tariffs.

panies still exist," says Urs Furrer, director of the Swiss SME Association.

Former Swiss National Bank chair Thomas Jordan argues that the franc's real exchange rate has been "remarkably stable" in recent years. But he concedes that adjustment after steep rises requires major efforts from companies.

Like Francis, the Felco boss, Furrer does not believe Switzerland can preserve every kind of manufacturing. "Mass production of cheap, low-quality goods is not the future," he says.

How much Swiss?

Every shear is still assembled

Inside Felco's factory, housed in an old watch-dial works, automated precision machines now hum and whirr where horologists once worked.

Francis says it has made no redundancies directly because of automation, which has allowed it to raise productivity and keep production in Switzerland while workers move into new roles.

by hand, meaning Felco complies with strengthened “Swissness” legislation that came into force in 2017. This sets out that for most industrial products, at least 60 per cent of manufacturing costs must generally be incurred in Switzerland and an essential manufacturing step must take place there for the product to qualify as "Swiss Made".

But at Bernina, a 133-year-old maker of sewing machines, production this year moved from Steckborn in eastern Switzerland to its factory in Thailand. The company blamed the strong franc and difficult conditions in the US, which accounts for almost three-quarters of its sales.

Bernina will retain more than 300 employees in Steckborn, along with development, prototype construction, testing and quality management. "The DNA of Bernina is and remains Swiss," says chief executive Kai Hillebrandt, even if Swiss production could "no longer be economically justified" and its sewing machines can no longer be described as "Swiss Made".

Companies can now use alternative descriptions involv-

Switzerland has experienced faster growth in gross value added, productivity and employment than EU peers


Source: FT calculations using Eurostat data via Avenir Suisse

it should be able to highlight this.

But Swissness Enforcement, a public-private entity created to combat misuse of Swiss indications, argued that doing so breached the rules, because the shoes were not Swiss-made.

"Why do you want to use the Swiss trademark?" says David Stärkle, its managing director. "You want to profit from the value of the reputation."

Swiss business newspaper NZZ am Sonntag has reported that On put pressure on the IPI, including threatening a state-liability lawsuit if the authority's actions caused it losses in China. On has "strongly rejected" the suggestion and said its correspondence was part of a normal process of seeking legal clarity.

Since the IPI's change, politicians have filed motions seeking to tighten the rules again. "The Swiss cross must not be put on products manufactured abroad — full stop," centre-right lawmaker Daniela Schneeberger has said.

Industrial organisations have also expressed dismay. Nicola Tettamanti, president of Swissmechanic, which represents more than 1,000 SMEs, says his members remain strongly attached to "Swiss Made".

He expects production that survives in Switzerland to become increasingly specialised and technologically demanding as robotics and AI compensate for high costs. "We have a chance in Switzerland," he said, if companies remain above average in technology, quality and speed.

Other Swiss companies have taken different approaches. Victorinox still makes its famous Swiss Army knives in Switzerland but its luggage is designed in the country and manufactured in Asia, bearing a white cross on a black, coat-of-arms-style emblem instead of the traditional white-on-red logo.

When Toblerone's US owner Mondelez shifted some production of the chocolate to Slovakia, Swissness rules meant it could no longer use the image of the Matterhorn and other indications of Swiss provenance on its packaging. But replacing the famous mountain with a generic peak and changing the wording has not dented sales.

La Prairie, the luxury skincare brand owned by Germany's Beiersdorf, has deepened its Swiss roots, moving its global marketing team back from New York and in 2022 taking full control of the St Gallen company that manufactures most of its skincare collections.

“Swissness is more than our country of origin, it is part of who we are,” says Estelle Létang, La Prairie’s CEO. “Our Swiss heritage continues to shape how we innovate,” she adds, although the economics are helped by the price tags: 50ml of its Skin Caviar Luxe Cream sells for about SFr650 (\$810).

'The business of surviving'

Switzerland is far from alone in confronting these pressures, but there are reasons for its industry to be confident. It retains one of the most sophisticated, diverse industrial bases in the world, while automation is reducing the share of labour costs in some sectors.

The manufacturing that remains may become still more specialised, automated and concentrated in areas where Swiss precision still justifies the cost.

Stefan Brupbacher, director of Swiss-mem, argues that there is little alternative to this approach. "Swiss industry is

'If you are an industrial company producing [there] and exporting, you're not going to shoot at the mass market'

too diverse to choose a handful of sectors or companies to subsidise," he says.

The longstanding bargain is that companies accept global competition while the government provides the framework in which they can compete: access to markets, strong education, sound public finances and limited regulation.

Swiss Enforcement's Stärkle is adamant Swiss manufacturing will weather the latest upheaval. "There is something in the pride of Swiss industry to do it here, no matter what," he says.

Even as global trade fragments, Bern recently concluded talks to upgrade its free trade agreement with China. The revised deal will allow 99.8 per cent of current Swiss exports to enter China duty free, up from about half today.

Brupbacher wonders how sustainable the subsidy race elsewhere will prove. "Let's see down the road in 10 years who is succeeding," he says. "Who has the money to continue to subsidise?"

For Swiss manufacturers, his answer is to remain indispensable: make products and components that customers cannot easily source elsewhere.

"For now, we are still indispensable," he says. "And we are in the business of surviving."


FINANCIAL TIMES 'Without fear and without favour'

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Treasury market interventions are only a band-aid

Moves on long-dated bonds and the yen do little to assuage markets long-term

After months of verbal commitments to remain in the system, the UK government exited the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on September 16 1992, unchaining sterling from other EU currencies. "Black Wednesday" harmed the credibility of the government, and netted investors who bet against the pound large returns. Among them was a young American trader at Soros Fund Management in London: Scott Bessent.

Today, the US Treasury secretary finds himself on the other side of the table. Rather than maintaining a currency peg, Bessent must bolster the world's most important bond market as Treasuries face a moment of weakness.

Bessent likes to describe his role as America's "top bond salesman." Implicit is a desire to keep bond prices high and rates low. But his recent attempts to tame Treasuries have not addressed the underlying drivers of turbulence in the US bond market. As Bessent surely knows from his experience with John Major's government, interventions only work insofar as policymakers have credibility in the eyes of markets.

Treasury market fragility has grown in recent years due to persistent US fiscal deficits driven by high spending and tax cuts. Elevated interest rates have exacerbated the problem of servicing Treasury debt. The typical Treasury bond purchaser is shifting from buy-and-hold sovereign buyers, pension funds and insurers to hot money that demands higher rates. High capital spending on AI data centres contributes to a bond glut in which sovereign issuers are competing with corporate borrowers and private credit, pushing up rates.

Bessent's interventions have aimed to reduce upward pressure on long-term Treasury yields. The move to support a weak yen this month was intended to take pressure off Japan to raise rates or sell Treasury bonds to support its currency; both could weaken the dollar and push up US government borrowing costs. Earlier this year, Bessent suggested providing swap lines to Gulf countries such as the United Arab Emirates, also major holders of Treasury debt. Supporting the currencies and liquidity positions of foreign allies to avoid Treasury sell-offs is a temporary fix, but does not solve the problems of policy credibility and excess debt.

Last week, Bessent made unusual changes to policy towards the Treasury market, signalling that his department would buy twice as many long-dated bonds. Bessent has been a critic of the US Treasury's "regular and predictable" posture on bond maturity issuance, blaming Janet Yellen for not issuing enough longer-maturity debt and leaning on short-term borrowing. His intervention last week boosted long-term bonds on the day, but its modest scale ultimately left the market mostly

The only sustainable way to reduce upward pressure would be fiscal prudence

unchanged. Reports yesterday indicated the Treasury may use funds from its main checking account to buy back bonds, but the scope of such a programme remains to be seen.

As the steward of the world's most important bond market, and a key player in maintaining the world's reserve currency, Bessent's interventions affect the global economy. His efforts have not been helped by the reluctance of the new Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh to communicate his views clearly.

But Bessent's actions so far amount to putting bandages on deeper wounds caused by structurally high deficits and persistent inflation. The only sustainable way to reduce upward pressure on Treasuries would be fiscal prudence. Bessent has highlighted his desire to limit budget deficits to 3 per cent of GDP, roughly half the current deficit. He would do well to push the Trump administration and Congress to achieve this stated goal.

Opinion Society

Why Britain's state costs more even as it does less

Stephen Bush

he UK has a state that struggles to do the basics, yet the tax burden is at a record high. Why?

There is a ready supply of theories on offer at Westminster. But a surprising number start from the basic truth that the state does less because, after the financial crisis, we consciously decided that it should do less, by managing the cost of the crisis largely through spending cuts, rather than tax rises.

So why does it spend more as a share of GDP than it did before 2010? One reason is that arguments about “shares of GDP” are almost always selling what is, at best, a partial truth. You can spend more as a share of GDP simply because your country grows at a sluggish rate, or because the things you are spending money on are more expensive, or because a series of

Arguments about 'shares of GDP' are almost always selling what is, at best, a partial truth

global shocks forces you to take on more debt. Or, if you are exceptionally unlucky, as the UK has been since 2016, then you can end up doing so because of all three.

Since the financial crisis, the British economy has only once briefly looked like it was recovering, and that was towards the end of the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition. Whether that was a dead cat bounce or a promising recovery snuffed out by Brexit, we'll never know. But if you have sluggish economic growth, you are going to see your spending go up as a share of GDP even if you are standing still.

"Share of GDP" arguments can provide false comfort in other ways.

It's true, for instance, that as "a share of GDP", the UK does not spend any more on welfare than it did in 2010, and that the welfare bill is not "ballooning" or "out of control" or anything like it. But more importantly, it is also true that more of the UK's welfare spend in 2010 went on so-called intermediate work schemes – providing employment experience to people who were not workplace-ready – and on tax credits, topping up the incomes of the lowest paid. A greater share of the welfare bill now goes to either the retired or people who are not in work. The latter group has swelled, in part as a consequence of cutbacks on other forms of welfare spending that actually help get people into work.

The UK really does have less state than it did. Much of what the government did for people at the time of the financial crisis, for example, it no longer does. Tax credits are far less generous and, due to the higher minimum wage, individual businesses have to pay a higher share of their employees' living costs. In England, we no longer pay the poorest 16 to 18-year-olds £30 a week to stay in school. In large parts of the country, local authority-provided youth services are a thing of the past. But contrary to what many on the left think, the UK also really does tax the average person less. The "rich", or the "broadest shoulders", or whatever metaphor you want to use, really do pay more.

We have a state paid for by the better off that provides services primarily for the sick, the old and people in acute crisis. And because spending on the sick is the thing that is rising across the world, the UK faces ever greater costs. Unlike in most other developed countries, almost all healthcare spending in the UK flows first through the government.

Taking these truths together gets us to the three options available to the UK. The first is to decide that, actually, you can persuade British people to accept the level of state provision we currently have with the tax burden we currently have. This seems like doing nothing.

There are two other plausible routes — either to choose between two divergent options or else do a bit of both.

One is to decide that you can sell people on a return to a state that does more for which they – and not just the rich, not non-doms, not the tiny minority who privately educate their children – will have to pay more.

The other is that you decide we need to take a leaf out of our peers' books and decide that more of the cost of healthcare and of an ageing population will be paid for out of private spending – whether through mandatory insurance, a mixed model or something else entirely.

Finally, you might favour a third way: a co-payment system for healthcare, perhaps, but more money for the criminal justice system.

The problem is that whichever option you pick from, you run the risk of being unpopular, and having the voters decide they would like the other one. That's better, though, than engaging in fantasies about plucking lower-hanging fruit and avoiding hard conversations with the public and difficult choices about how the government spends its money.

stephen.bush@ft.com

Letters

Gucci's catwalk tightrope between affordability and aspiration

Cost-cutting is a natural business imperative. But for luxury brands like Gucci, if this becomes an external measure, articulated through increased affordability, it risks damaging the exclusivity that creates demand in the first place (“Kering breaks luxury’s taboo by counting the pennies”, Lex, August 11).

Consumers don't buy Gucci because it's cheap. They pay for exclusivity and

Chicken and egg: Africa's demographic challenge

In his column “Does Africa have too few people?” (Opinion, August 11) David Pilling ignores the lessons of recent economic history and the specific context of sub-Saharan Africa.

With 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent population growth per year over the past 60 years, sub-Saharan African countries have been unable to build their human capital (education and health). Moreover, African economies have long been based on the export of raw materials instead of truly industrialising. Although sub-Saharan Africa has some very large cities, most are plagued with slums. Finally, emigration is not an opportunity for Africans as it was for Europeans who migrated to America in the 19th century.

Nowadays, it is not the sheer number of people but the quality of the human capital that is the engine of development and that enables countries to integrate with the world economy.

No country has been able to develop its human capital without completing its demographic transition, including a significant decline of fertility. This is a prerequisite for sub-Saharan African unattainability; the brand is a status symbol, with deep roots in identity. Reinvesting cost efficiencies into affordable prices may widen consumer reach, especially among younger generations, but could infringe on being aspirational, undermining the potency and value of the brand.

Gucci needs to strike a balance that mirrors one of LVMH's most successful brands, Tiffany & Co. Tiffany walks the


"OTHERWISE KNOWN AS DOWNING STREET EAST "

countries and the only way for the region to increase its GDP per capita, which has remained tragically stagnant over the past 60 years. John F May

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Research Professor, George Mason
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Jean-Pierre Guengant
Research Director, Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Marseille, France

tightrope between aspiration and affordability well. It has high-end, exclusive products, and a complementary affordable range. It has been incredibly successful at expanding its audience, while continuing to invest in the aspects that make it a premium, luxury brand: heritage and craftsmanship.

For long-term growth with a cost-saving focus, Gucci should craft a

Here's a fact ignored by almost all the tech world

Margaret McGirr's letter ("AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one", July 21) and Chine McDonald's guest column ("This retro revival is more than a longing for the past", Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.

The brain's job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.

Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug – each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.

In addition to the hand's limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure

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similar dynamic. Expanding its total offering while investing in its heritage high-fashion status.

With Demna, the creative director, now at the helm, its creativity is clearly being nurtured. If Gucci continues to invest, it could expand into more affordable offerings without diluting its luxury image. Gonzalo Brujó

Global CEO, Interbrand, Madrid, Spain

to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.

So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).

Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body – including the hands – does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.

The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.

It's millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated – and dead – planet.

Sichia Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK

Correction

- Moderna developed an experimental skin cancer treatment with US drug-maker Merck, not Germany's Merck as wrongly stated in the Business Week in Review panel on August 22.

OUTLOOK

AMERICA

Revisiting the Lockerbie bombing, 37 years later


by Patti Waldmeir

n December 21 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing 270 people. Now, for the first

time, a US court will try one of those alleged to be responsible.

I was booked on that flight. This was all so very long ago: air tickets were paper and online booking was impossible, so I went to a London "bucket shop" to buy a cheap flight home to Detroit for Christmas. Someone there saved my life: at the last minute, the travel agent changed my London to New York booking from Pan Am 103 to a TWA flight at the same time. The onward leg of my booking, from New York to Detroit, was unaffected. I remember being powerfully annoyed that I would have to change airlines in New York.

My late father, a journalist, knew only that he was meeting Pan Am 103 in Detroit, in time for the sixth anniversary of my mother's death the next day. When he heard that the flight had exploded soon after take-off, he wrote my obituary and sent it for typesetting. He wouldn't discover for hours that I had been spared.

Scores of other parents, spouses, friends and loved ones would not be so lucky. In the 37 years since, many of them have died without knowing the critical details that may emerge from the trial of the alleged bombmaker in a Washington federal courtroom. Jury selection in that trial begins this week.

This isn't the first Lockerbie trial – but it's the first in a quarter-century, and it's on US soil. Back in 2003, the Libyan regime of former leader Muammer Gaddafi accepted responsibility for Lockerbie after a Libyan intelligence official was convicted of murder in 2001 by a specially constituted Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands. Now another former Libyan intelligence officer, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, will face a US jury in what remains the UK's deadliest terrorist attack in history, and the worst attack on US civilians apart from September 11.

Lockerbie remains a subject of fascination. The BBC-Netflix series The Bombing of Pan Am 103 hit the Netflix US top 10 soon after its American release last month. Kathryn Turman, the victims' rights campaigner and a prominent character in the Netflix drama, thinks the timing of the attack is part of the reason why: "What really struck home was that it was a Christmas flight, there were 22 family groups on the flight, it fell on a little market town in Scotland." Many of the victims were very young, including 35 study abroad students, she says.

Pan Am 103 would ultimately transform the way airlines and governments approach aviation security. Paul Hudson, whose 16-year-old daughter was killed in the tragedy and who now heads the air passenger advocacy group Flyersrights, tells me Lockerbie led to better bomb detection, a reward programme that foiled other plots and deterrence of state-sponsored terrorism.

I asked Stephanie Bernstein, who lost her husband and is vice-president of the US group Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, what a new prosecution can achieve now, nearly four decades after the fact. After all, Mas'ud has been a suspect for decades. "I'm certainly not looking at it as a way to get to 'the truth', whatever that is. I am looking at it as a very important step towards gaining some measure of justice, holding accountable those we are legally able to hold accountable," she says. Bernstein, a rabbi, told me that "for all of us, this is sacred work . . . we owe it to (those who died) and to other people to make sure . . . that when people get on a plane they are not going to get blown out of the sky".

But a conviction is not a foregone conclusion, legal experts say. Mas'ud allegedly confessed to his involvement while in custody in post-revolution Libya. His lawyers tried to get the confession excluded, and though the judge ruled it admissible, jurors will not necessarily be persuaded by it.

I can understand the desire not to let time exonerate those responsible – but is 37 years too long? Turman says no: "It doesn't matter how long. We will, and we should, pursue justice, if there is a way to do it." I escaped Lockerbie by chance; those who were not so lucky, and their ageing families, deserve another day in court.

The writer is a contributing columnist

Opinion

An economic D-Day is coming for Iran

Scott Bessent

n 1943, the Allied powers convened the Tehran Conference to plot the course of an uncharted act.

As Roosevelt and Churchill

As Roosevelt and Churchill weighed a campaign that would culminate in the Normandy landings, they asked themselves what could be done "to bring the greatest pressure to bear on the enemy".

History has returned that question to Tehran. And the moment has arrived to answer it with the full weight of American resolve.

President Donald Trump and the overwhelming might of our military have significantly dismantled Iran's military capabilities and weakened its nuclear programme. Now we are entering the endgame. At dawn begins an economic D-Day – the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.

For 47 years, the Islamic republic of

Iran has been a malignant force in the world. Within Iran, a corrupt regime has consigned what would be one of the world's strongest economies to ruin and its enterprising people to repression.

Beyond its borders, the Iranian regime maintains a network of proxies that perpetuate its terror. The US has paid an especially grievous price but we are scarcely alone in facing this scourge. Too often, though, we find ourselves alone in our resolve to thwart it.

President Trump has decimated Iran's economy to a point where the rial has never been weaker and inflation has rarely been higher. The regime's final refuge now lies in the self-deception of fearful nations that still believe accommodating aggression can secure peace.

Iran's enablers purchase and transport its petroleum. They facilitate the flow of its finances through exchange houses and free trade zones. They welcome Iran's flights and maintain registries on its behalf. They turn a blind eye to seaborne fuel transfers and the illicit use of their banks, all while concealing the extent of their complicity. In short, these countries calculate appeasement of the regime to be the safer course. But they would do well to consider the consequences of sustaining it.

In the 17th century, French philosopher Blaise Pascal gave enduring expression to the dilemma beneath this temptation. He understood that uncertainty does not absolve men or nations of divine judgment. In fact, it demands a more exacting appraisal of risk and imposes a higher price for error.

Those who sever Tehran's remaining financial and commercial connectivity will reinvigorate their own

Pascal's eponymous wager now applies to Iran's lifelines. Nations that, in courting reprieve from Tehran, continue to replenish the very regime from which they seek protection – and now exceed the limits of America's tolerance.

President Trump is doing what his predecessors refused by ending a threat they resigned themselves to managing. For decades, the political class accepted an endless cycle of provocation instead of advancing American interests. Not another generation should be condemned to the menace of fanatics who devote themselves to “death to America” and fulfilling the regime’s nuclear ambitions. And total financial isolation can obviate the need for American force while enlarging the sphere of freedom for our allies.

Those who sever Iran's remaining financial and commercial connectivity will reinvigorate their own. They will deepen their access to global capital, reinforce confidence in their markets and attain the standing they seek in the world economy.

The alternative for those who tether themselves to Tehran is the foreclosure of any path to lasting prosperity. Illicit finance will flourish, as it so often does, where confidence has collapsed. And any nation that serves as a financial artery of a withering regime should expect to share in its isolation. To become a sanctuary for terror is to become, in the eyes of the United States, a global pariah.

The Islamic republic has subsisted by dressing extortion as security guarantees. It has drawn strength from a calculus that regards Iranian retaliation as certain and American enforcement as negotiable. Under President Trump, that era is over. And those who fear the danger of defying Tehran ought not to discount the cost of testing Washington.

The president has created the conditions to leverage every agency, every authority and action many assumed we would never summon. Any remaining tie to Tehran will hasten the economic ostracism of countries and entities, whether that tie be purposefully constructed or wilfully ignored. And if, as the regime's grasp on power crumbles alongside its economy, Iran resorts to military action against US forces or its Gulf neighbours, make no mistake: President Trump will respond swiftly and decisively.

The world should understand that our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone. Pascal considered salvation to be a choice. As a great wave of American resolve comes ashore, are Iran's enablers willing to wager their future against it?

The writer is the US secretary of the Treasury

The new world order? Every man for himself

GLOBAL AFFAIRS

Alec Russell

ofi Annan had a favourite put-down for people who tried to argue that an autocrat could be the right answer for a weak or troubled state.

“That’s Johnnie Walker talking . . .” he would say, recalling how he and friends used to respond in Ghana when he was growing up and someone made an outlandish claim. Autocracies were “built on sand”, he believed; the only way to nurture a nation was via good governance; you just had to keep working at it.

I heard the late UN secretary-general deliver this gentle “Johnnie Walker” rejoinder on a tour of Tanzania 15 years ago. It was a time when the post-cold war teleology of hope had run its course. And yet an aspirant breeze of democracy was blowing across much of the developing world.

How dispirited Annan would be now. Authoritarianism has of course been on the rise in great powers, such as China and Russia, for over a decade, and in “middle powers”, from Turkey and the Gulf to India, and more recently and quite rapidly Indonesia too.

But now that America has decided to hang up its hat when it comes to championing democracy, there is a broader springtime for tyrants. From Zimbabwe to Myanmar, thuggish autocracies seem emboldened to do pretty much what they like without fear of even a rhetorical reproof.

As for Tanzania, the authorities have just suspended a newspaper for daring to report on possible tension in the government. A decade ago such an act would have led to pressure from western donors. How liberating it must be for intolerant politicians to be able to clamp down on the media with no fear of sanction . . .

Some will be tempted to riposte that this is nothing new: since when has America been a paragon of virtuous behaviour? It has, after all, always been self-interested and hypocritical – as have all dominant powers over the years.

When Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, lambasted the idea of the US-led "rules-based global order" as "pleasant fiction" in January, his critique found particular favour in the global south. Many there have long resented the west's inconsistencies. Exhibit A for the prosecution: Zaire's dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in the cold war. He was a king of kleptocracy, yet he and other despots were cosseted by multiple US presidents as anti-Soviet pawns.

And yet, unfashionable as it is to defend America's record on the world stage, that's not the whole picture. Over the post-1945 decades there were many countries in which beleaguered opposition parties and news outlets were kept going by the support of the US state department and its agencies. In the early 1990s, when correspondents of the US government-funded Voice of America travelled to Angola, a one-party state opening up to the world, they were hailed as legends, such had been the impact of their broadcasts.

Well that was then. Voice of America was closed by the Trump administration last year. Democracy promotion is off the US agenda. When last month allies of Zimbabwe's president Emmer-son Mnangagwa forced through a new law to extend his term, in breach of the constitution, there was not a chirp of protest from America. Other western countries too seem to have lost their spine. Britain and France are focusing on debt relief for Zimbabwe while saying nothing about the power grab.

Now that the US has hung up its hat when it comes to championing democracy, it is springtime for tyrants

The financial savings from this retreat and a broader disinvestment in soft power are a rounding error. But the impact on opposition parties is dire. It is also short-sighted. Beijing is filling the soft power vacuum.

In Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa's backers are calling for him to stay on as a de facto president-for-life. He has just promoted 10 of them to be senators. He is said to have drawn heart from Trump's offhand past suggestion that he might seek a third term. And so a tyranny takes root.

Some talk despairingly – and inaccurately – of a return to “the law of the jungle”. When Rudyard Kipling, the chronicler of British imperialism, coined the phrase as the title of a poem, it was a compliment. He was saluting the way wolves worked together; his law of the jungle was about community, not chaos. “For the strength of the pack is the wolf,” he wrote. “And the strength of the wolf is the pack.”

Carney implicitly invoked this “pack” spirit as a source of inspiration when he talked about middle powers needing to work together to keep multilateralism alive. Sometimes this will happen. The idea of plurilateralism — ad hoc coalitions on specific issues — is gathering fans, as is flexilateralism, whatever that may mean.

But overall the global zeitgeist is “every man for himself” – or what is, yes, commonly understood as the law of the jungle. This is a cut-throat age when you can ruthlessly pursue goals. UN officials talk despairingly of how as many as 10 countries are fuelling the war in Sudan, all feeling assured of impunity.

Supporters of America's disengaged approach talk of a long-overdue return to realism. The world has changed, they say. That is true. But the end of US interest in spreading enlightenment ideals comes at a high price.

Annan would have known how to respond to anyone seeking to defend the prevailing cynical disregard of the merits of democracy. Quietly but firmly he would have ridiculed the notion, saying: "That's Johnnie Walker talking." And he would, of course, have been right.

alec.russell@ft.com

Socialists and Maga are both wrong about liberalism

ECONOMICS

Michael Strain

economic liberalism is not in vogue, to put it mildly. In the US, the energy in the Democratic Party lies with self-described democratic socialists

who are critical of free markets. On the right, vice-president JD Vance argues that economic growth is overrated, economic science might be “fake,” and the bipartisan liberal consensus on economic policy has “failed” for the last four decades.

Critics argue that liberalism has not delivered broad-based prosperity – an attack that can be convincingly defended against with statistics and quantitative analysis. But their critique goes further, asserting that liberalism is morally corrosive. This, too, is off base.

For one, economic liberty is intrinsically valuable. Also, the free enterprise system pushes against the problematic tendency in American life to see people less as individuals and more as members of a group. The system is premised on the idea that society should accept the preferences, knowledge and decisions of individuals and families.

This system argues that the welfare of society should be measured not by hazy perceptions of national greatness or by progress towards objectives set by elites, but instead by how well off individuals and families are.

Work is itself of great moral value. It offers a sense of identity and purpose, directs our energy and time to productive ends, and allows us to provide for our families. It offers spiritual benefits, as well, because it is inherently creative. Pope John Paul II argued that in carrying out the biblical mandate “to subdue, to dominate, the earth”, every person “reflects the very action of the Creator of the universe”.

In a market economy, worker compensation is largely determined by productivity. Because effort is rewarded, individuals come to exercise personal responsibility for, and agency over, their outcomes.

Free markets facilitate growing economies, which in turn facilitate important virtues. In a growing economy, you can do better without others doing worse. This dynamic fosters tolerance, pluralism and support for political liberty and self-government.

Market exchange requires voluntary co-operation, which in turn leads soci-

People are not puppets responding to the string pulls of market forces. We have agency

ety as a whole to be more co-operative. As Voltaire marvelled in the 18th century of the Royal Exchange in London, Jews, Muslims and Christians “transact together, as though they all professed the same religion, and give the name of infidel to none but bankrupts”.

Commercial transactions create a sense of mutual dignity among citizens.

The millionaire and the shopkeeper may have very different financial net worth, but they look each other eye to eye and shake hands, each needing something from the other.

Still, there is something to the antiliberal critique. Slapping a price tag on some things can change their character by turning them into commodities. A market society does encourage consumerism and materialism. It can lead to a reductive understanding of the good life by elevating commercial activity above cultivating relationships, caring for family and enjoying leisure.

Its emphasis on individual preferences can make society morally thin by focusing so much attention on what people want and so little on debating what people should want. The focus that economic liberalism places on individual autonomy can lead some to forget the duties we have to each other, can sever connections to home and community and can make people feel isolated.

But none of this argues for curtailing economic liberty in the way suggested by democratic socialists or some Maga Republicans. A major flaw in their critiques is that they too often let individuals off the hook.

People are not puppets responding to the string pulls of market forces. We have agency. The market may value my taking a consulting project over spending time with my family, for example. But that doesn't mean I have to take the project – the choice is mine to make.

Liberalism gives pride of place to liberty. But liberty is not the same as licence. To let your passions – or market incentives – determine your choices is to be enslaved. Instead, liberty must be ordered to notions of truth, human flourishing and the good life. As John Paul II argued, “freedom itself needs to be set free.” Free markets require a virtuous citizenry to prevent society from decomposing.

The challenge for liberals is to live liberty well. The anti-liberals have it exactly backwards: the problems facing a market society do not come primarily from markets — they come from society.

The writer is an FT contributing editor and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute

Meloni wants a snap election to hide her failures

Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

election.

ast month, the lower chamber of Italy's parliament approved a drastic rewriting of the country's electoral law, which might herald a snap

If ratified by the Senate, this will be the fourth electoral reform in two decades. The three previous initiatives had nakedly partisan motives and strictly partisan support – the first was passed by the centre-right (2005), the second (2015) and third (2017) by the centre-left. Each produced complex and eccentric electoral systems while sapping political accountability and trust in representative democracy. The same is true of this reform, which was pushed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing coalition.

The first two reforms were struck down by the constitutional court because they gave voters next to no say in the selection of MPs (something largely left to party leaders) and distorted the translation of votes into seats (by awarding a potentially vast number of additional seats – a “majority premium” – to the winner). For the same reasons, this new reform is also arguably unconstitutional.

That is why Meloni might seek a snap election – likely in early 2027 – precisely in order to forestall the court. If the judges were to invalidate the reform after the election, the court would neither invalidate the vote nor deny the winner its majority premium.

The rationale for the reform is clear. Like a fishmonger after days of rough seas, Meloni has scant goods to sell.

Her proposed electoral reform is designed to favour coalitions that face no competitors

When she took office in late 2022, she staked her political capital on managing Italy's slow economic decline, rather than trying to reverse it. She did so by favouring multiple special interests including micro firms and the self-employed, and designating scapegoats – as her reaction to the recent Ceuta migrant crisis shows.

Her government undermined economic institutions crucial for innovation and creative destruction, whose weakness is the proximate cause of Italy's long-stagnant productivity. Broad amnesties for tax evasion and illegal construction have further enfeebled the rule of law, and a recent reform of the stock market curtailed protections for minority shareholders, which will further lower corporate governance standards and hinder companies' growth.

The centre-left laments the country's low wages and widespread injustices. But it still lacks credible ideas for shifting Italy on to a fairer and more productive path. Meanwhile, public debt stands at 138.5 per cent of GDP, up from 120.8 per cent in 2011, when a crisis of confidence in Italian bonds threatened the survival of the euro and the EU itself.

Given all this, four years after Meloni took the helm, the lower and middle classes are not content.

Hence her proposed reform, which is designed to favour coalitions – like her own – that face no competitors at their margins. The ploy initially seemed endangered by the rise of a new demagogic party, National Future, which vehemently attacks Meloni's government from the right. But as no principles divide them, and co-option would be mutually beneficial, I expect the new party to eventually join her coalition.

Meloni has been suitably European and Atlanticist in foreign policy, winning her acceptance as a credible partner by Berlin and Brussels. She has even managed to maintain a workable balance between closeness to Washington and distance from Donald Trump's most extreme extravagances.

Neither this balancing act nor her electoral reform will guarantee Meloni's victory at the next election. What is certain is that this reform will add to the ruin of Italy's political institutions.

European conservatives were perhaps unwise in embracing Meloni so warmly; European progressives might wish to be more demanding of her opponents, should they succeed her.

The writer is author of 'The Political Economy of Italy's Decline' and 'The Republic of Innovation'


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Shein's IPO pitch should be more Meta than H&M

rom fast fashion to flat fashion: Shein's \$27bn valuation in an upcoming Hong Kong public offering is a big blow to a company


Shein has been plagued by counterfeiting issues — Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images

that investors appraised at \$100bn back in 2022.

View Shein as an ultra-speedy clothing merchant plagued by counterfeiting issues and the price cut is deserved. But consider it as something different – a gamified doomscrolling app – and it's a different story.

Two things investors like are growth and profitability, and at Shein both are going in the wrong direction. Revenue expanded by just 8 per cent last year, compared with 20 per cent in 2024.

Just 4.9 per cent of sales dropped through to earnings, almost half what it was the year before as the US and EU have tightened so-called de minimis rules that let low-value packages skirt import taxes.

Compared to fashion peers, it still looks dear. The company says the “online fashion market” will grow at an annual rate of roughly 5.5 per cent until 2030. If it keeps up with that, and can turn 2.5 per cent of its sales into earnings, as it did in the latest quarter after adjusting for some one-off factors, then the company should make \$1.1bn in profit this year.

Seen that way, a \$27bn valuation represents about 25 times forward earnings. Zara owner Inditex trades at 26 times, while H&M is at 22 times.

Both are growing their earnings faster than the Singapore-domiciled company. No wonder the former online wunderkind has lost its shine.

What if those aren't the right comparisons? After all, Shein differs from H&M and Inditex in some important ways. It lacks their physical-store networks, and its network of small suppliers, which make products in small batches to gauge demand, means it can offer nearly limitless range with negligible inventory.

Prices are low enough, and its online engine sophisticated enough, that

Investors like growth and profitability, and at Shein both are going in the wrong direction

customers can easily scroll for hours, and buy multiple items on a whim.

Arguably, Shein's peers aren't just clothes retailers, but any business that provides screen-bound users with a dopamine hit.

Take gaming, a business model that relies on squeezing in-app purchases out of users with eyes glued to their screens: Take-Two Interactive trades at around 30 times forward earnings,

with profits expected to grow 50 per cent a year for the next 5 years.

Gambling, too, tries to monetise a similar impetus. DraftKings, the US sports and gaming company that is branching out into predictions markets, trades at roughly 47 times forward earnings.

As a big beneficiary of the spending-from-the-sofa economy, DraftKings' net income is expected to grow at an average annual rate of more than 110 per cent over the next five years, analysts polled by Visible Alpha reckon.

The ultimate doomscrolling machine is probably Meta Platforms, owner of Instagram and Facebook, whose ad-driven revenue is growing at nearly 30 per cent a year. Of course, the differences are vast, and Meta's shares are suppressed by its enormous AI investments.

But Meta's\$1.4tn market capitalisation speaks to the considerable value of furnishing consumers with dopamine.

By pitching itself as a mere fashion retailer, Shein may be missing a trick.

China could ride to the oil market's rescue again — if it wanted to

There's one good reason oil prices have never roared quite as loudly as they could have during the Strait of Hormuz crisis: China. The People's Republic slashed its imports of crude oil and drew from its huge stockpiles.

Now, though, it's diesel that's in short supply, sending shockwaves through the economies of the US and Europe. Could China ride to the rescue again?

In theory, yes it could. The reason diesel is in short supply is because facilities that are available to refine crude oil into the preferred fuel for trucks, buses and trains are running at full tilt. Many Russian sites, formerly outsized producers of diesel, have been taken offline amid attacks by Ukraine.

China, though, has ample capacity. Even before the US-Israel war with Iran started, China had more refineries than it needed to supply its own domestic needs of oil-derived products.

Its cuts to crude imports and product exports have left many plants half idle; in aggregate they are producing 2.3mn barrels per day fewer than they were last February, WoodMackenzie estimates, or just over 13mn.

Prices for refined products, particularly diesel, have risen sharply since the start of the year, far outpacing the price of crude oil. Based on the current price spread between crude oil and products in Asia, adding back that 2.3mn barrels a day would create about \$70mn a day in gross refining margins for Chinese refiners, roughly \$25bn a year on an annualised basis.

The problem is that Chinese refiners aren't free to follow profit to the extent their US and European counterparts are. The country's imports and exports have indeed been creeping up, but the government's strategic priority seems to be rebuilding its depleted buffers.

And since Beijing has a key say in refiners' activities, it is likely to eschew any moves that would push crude's price up further. That would include sucking a few million barrels a day out of the global market to produce profitable diesel. China imports 8.4mn barrels a day, based on July's figures, so a \$10-per-barrel increase would wipe out the commercial gains from putting spare refining capacity to work. It


Source: Rystad Energy

would therefore be foolhardy to expect a deus ex Sina when it comes to the strained diesel market.

That said, investors who have driven up the price of refiners such as Neste Oil and Repsol about 60 per cent this year shouldn't forget that incentives can change, and that China's idle capacity is a choice, not a necessity.

Should flows via the strait pick up, or should China deem the market stable enough to tolerate some extra demand, it might not take long for diesel prices to come down with a bump.

Dieters' appetite for whey gives protein prices an added boost

Little Miss Muffett was ahead of her time. Now, like the English nursery rhyme's eponymous protagonist, a lot of people are finding an appetite for whey - if not yet curds. This sludge-like byproduct of cheesemaking has found a new lease of life as those on weight-loss drugs join sporty types and others keen to pump up protein intake on slimmed-down diets.

Groups from Dunkin' Donuts to UK retailer Marks and Spencer have rushed to "proteinmax" their own offerings; Starbucks includes whey many of its lattes and drinks. Inventories are low – at the end of June, stocks in the US were half that of three years before, according to the US Department of Agriculture – and prices sky-high. In Europe, prices for 80 per cent whey protein concentrate

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more than doubled in the first six months of the year.

This has caused buyers of whey to squeal as profitability narrows. Higher prices lopped 1.2 percentage points off ebitda margins at UK-listed THG's nutrition division last fiscal year. But those negotiating prices for the fourth quarter may take solace – the balance of power has tipped fractionally in buyers' direction. Demand is still buoyant; the rash of new products on supermarket shelves attests to that.

High prices are doing what high prices in commodity markets invariably do. Manufacturers have invested in expanding production, though this is easier in the US than in Europe, where regulation makes it harder to scale up. That helps explain why EU prices are higher, and the transatlantic gap is widening.

Food producers are also exploring alternatives. It's tricky to reproduce the taste of dairy protein, but in some cases egg or even plant proteins will do; some of the latter are running at about one-10th the cost of whey, according to Vesper. In some cases, bulking up can help: THG's protein and collagen blends, for example.

It's unlikely that demand will budge much. The take-up of GLP-1s for weight loss – which have the effect of suppressing appetites and depleting muscle – continues to rise, adding to the clamour for whey protein. About 7 per cent of the UK population uses, or has used, weight-loss drugs; the proportion is twice that in the US already, and changes to availability under state-backed health insurance could swell that further. Bulking season is just getting started.

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制度与权力批判深度研判:Financial Times (25.08.2026)


▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后,以下 4 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思(注意:专注宏观机制分析,不涉及个体情感层面):

  1. 【伯纳姆软化市政住房计划】 [F6_11-F6_12](版面:第6版/专业栏目)

    • 事件简述:英国首相伯纳姆将原计划29亿英镑社会与经济适用房资金中的20亿英镑拨付给住房协会,而非直接用于市政住房建设,虽名义上强调“控制权至关重要”,但实质上延续了前任斯塔默政府的分配逻辑。
    • 制度批判切入点:该事件暴露了英国住房政策的路径依赖官僚制锁定效应:既有住房协会模式通过制度惯性(路径依赖)和官僚机构的标准化分配程序(韦伯官僚制“铁笼”)排除了市政当局的直接参与,使“战后以来最大规模市政住房建设计划”沦为空头支票。
  2. 【酒吧与酒店业“评估大师”将审查征税方案】 [F7_13-F7_14](版面:第7版/专业栏目)

    • 事件简述:英国财政部引入“商业氛围”评估,由资深商业税率专家审查酒吧与酒店业对不公平征税的申诉,以支撑城镇中心经济。
    • 制度批判切入点官僚程序的排斥性功能:该评估机制通过技术化话语(如“商业氛围”)和专家治理(专家评估),将税收争议去政治化,使纳税人(特别是中小企业)在官僚程序中被系统性边缘化,强化了韦伯官僚制对经济活动的规训与控制。
  3. 【供应链防护立法动议】 [F15_29-F15_30](版面:第15版/专业栏目)

    • 事件简述:英国政府计划通过《网络安全与韧性法案》修正案,赋予政府干预企业供应链的权力,以应对伊朗相关黑客组织的网络威胁。
    • 制度批判切入点例外状态的常态化:该立法动议通过将网络安全威胁定义为“例外状态”,使政府在常规法律框架外行使权力(施密特例外状态理论),将供应链管控从经济政策工具转化为主权权力的技术化扩展,进一步模糊公私边界。
  4. 【特朗普将加拿大汽车关税提高至50%】 [F2_3-F2_4](版面:主报深度版面)

    • 事件简述:特朗普单边提高对加拿大汽车及零部件关税至50%,引发北美贸易战升级,加拿大反制并指责美国“计算错误”。
    • 制度批判切入点主权权力的例外声明:特朗普通过社交媒体平台发布关税政策,绕过国会与WTO多边机制,将贸易政策工具化为主权权力的例外行使(施密特例外状态),破坏了国际贸易秩序的制度性约束,体现了单边主义对多边主义的制度性挑战。

▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一:韦伯官僚制“铁笼”与英国住房政策的路径依赖:伯纳姆软化市政住房计划的制度困境

1. 制度现实困境深描(Institutional Dilemma)

伯纳姆政府将29亿英镑社会与经济适用房资金中的20亿英镑拨付给住房协会,而非直接用于市政住房建设 [F6_11-F6_12]。这一决策看似技术性调整,实则暴露了英国住房政策的结构性矛盾: - 路径依赖:英国住房政策自上世纪50年代以来,一直依赖住房协会(非营利性机构)作为社会住房的主要供给方。伯纳姆虽强调“控制权至关重要”,但其资金分配逻辑与前任斯塔默政府如出一辙,延续了住房协会主导的模式。 - 官僚制锁定:住房协会作为半官方机构,通过标准化的资金分配程序(如申请流程、评估标准)与政府形成制度性共谋,使市政当局难以获得资金。伯纳姆政府虽名义上强调市政住房,但资金捉襟见肘(仅剩26亿英镑)与既有分配机制的锁定效应,使其无法兑现“战后以来最大规模市政住房建设计划”的承诺。 - 政治话语与制度现实的脱节:伯纳姆在竞选时承诺将资金“专用于市政住房”,但在执政后却沿袭了技术官僚的分配逻辑,体现了政治话语的虚无化制度惯性的强制性

2. 权力机制与话语技术剖析(Power Mechanisms & Discourse Technology)

伯纳姆政府通过以下话语技术与权力机制掩盖其政治性本质: - 技术化修辞:政府将资金分配描述为“技术调整”,强调“未来阶段的计划将更倾向于市政当局” [F6_12 🔍]。这种技术化修辞(如“调整”、“倾向”)将政治决策包装为中性的技术流程,掩盖了权力分配的不平等。 - 专家治理:住房协会作为半官方机构,通过其专业话语(如“非营利性”、“社会租赁”)获得合法性。政府将资金拨付给住房协会,实质上是将权力委托给技术官僚机构,使市政当局的政治诉求被边缘化。 - 官僚程序的排斥性:住房协会的分配机制(如申请流程、评估标准)对市政当局形成制度性排斥。市政当局需满足复杂的申请条件,而住房协会则通过其网络与政府形成利益共同体,进一步巩固了其主导地位。

3. 批判理论框架的历史资源对话(Critical Theory Dialogue)

本事件可通过韦伯官僚制铁笼新制度主义路径依赖理论进行深度解析: - 韦伯官僚制铁笼:伯纳姆政府的住房政策体现了韦伯对现代官僚制“铁笼”的描述——通过标准化的分配程序与技术化修辞,将政治决策转化为不可抗拒的技术流程,使市政当局的政治诉求被系统性压制。住房协会作为半官方机构,通过其专业话语与政府形成官僚共谋,使权力分配的政治性被技术性掩盖。 - 新制度主义路径依赖:英国住房政策的路径依赖(自上世纪50年代以来的住房协会模式)使其难以突破既有制度框架。伯纳姆政府虽试图通过“软化”计划来兑现政治承诺,但既有分配机制的锁定效应使其无法实现根本性变革。路径依赖不仅体现在资金分配上,更体现在制度惯性利益集团的阻力上。

4. 制度批判的当代延伸与政策含义(Contemporary Synthesis)

当代技术条件(如算法治理、数字监控)为古典批判理论带来新挑战: - 算法治理的排斥性:英国住房政策的分配机制可通过算法优化(如基于“商业氛围”的评估)进一步强化排斥性。算法治理通过技术中立的修辞,将权力分配的政治性隐藏在“客观”数据与模型中,使市政当局的诉求被系统性边缘化。 - 数字监控与权力扩展:伯纳姆政府若进一步将住房分配与数字身份(如公民身份、居住证明)挂钩,将使权力分配从官僚程序扩展到数字监控,进一步强化对社会底层的规训与控制。 - 政策含义:要突破路径依赖与官僚制锁定,需: 1. 重构分配机制:将资金直接拨付给市政当局,并建立透明的监督机制,避免住房协会的垄断地位。 2. 去技术化修辞:将住房政策的政治性与分配逻辑公开化,避免技术化修辞掩盖权力分配的不平等。 3. 引入多元主体:鼓励社区组织、非营利机构与市政当局共同参与住房建设,形成多中心治理模式,避免官僚制的单一主导。


专题二:施密特例外状态与供应链防护立法:英国网络安全政策的主权权力扩展

1. 制度现实困境深描(Institutional Dilemma)

英国政府计划通过《网络安全与韧性法案》修正案,赋予政府干预企业供应链的权力,以应对伊朗相关黑客组织的网络威胁 [F15_29-F15_30]。这一立法动议体现了以下制度困境: - 例外状态的常态化:政府将网络安全威胁定义为“例外状态”,使其在常规法律框架外行使权力。这种例外状态的常态化,使政府的干预权力从技术性工具转化为主权权力的扩展。 - 公私边界的模糊:供应链管控涉及私营企业(如能源、医疗、电信)与政府的合作,但政府通过立法赋予其单边干预权,使私营企业的自主性被系统性压制。 - 技术官僚与主权权力的结合:政府通过立法将网络安全威胁定义为“例外状态”,使技术官僚(如网络安全专家)与主权权力结合,形成技术官僚主权的新形态。

2. 权力机制与话语技术剖析(Power Mechanisms & Discourse Technology)

该立法动议通过以下权力机制与话语技术实现其政治目标: - 风险量化修辞:政府将网络安全威胁描述为“风险”,并通过量化指标(如“成形前的威胁”)将其技术化。这种风险量化修辞将政治决策包装为客观的技术流程,掩盖了权力分配的政治性。 - 技术专家话语:立法动议强调“新权力将允许政府在威胁成形前采取行动”,将权力行使的合法性建立在技术专家的判断上。这种技术专家话语使政府的干预权力获得技术合法性,避免了民主问责。 - 主权权力的技术化扩展:政府通过立法将供应链管控从经济政策工具转化为主权权力的技术化扩展。这种转化使政府的干预权力从有限的经济政策扩展到无限的主权权力,进一步模糊了公私边界。

3. 批判理论框架的历史资源对话(Critical Theory Dialogue)

本事件可通过施密特例外状态理论进行深度解析: - 例外状态的常态化:英国政府通过立法将网络安全威胁定义为“例外状态”,使其在常规法律框架外行使权力。这种例外状态的常态化,体现了施密特对主权权力的描述——主权者通过例外状态将权力行使从法律约束中解放出来,形成无限的权力扩展。 - 主权权力的技术化:政府通过立法将供应链管控与网络安全威胁挂钩,使主权权力从传统的军事与外交领域扩展到技术与经济领域。这种技术化的主权权力,使政府的干预权力获得了技术合法性,进一步强化了其不可抗拒性。 - 技术官僚主权的新形态:施密特的例外状态理论强调主权权力的政治性,但英国政府通过立法将其与技术官僚结合,形成了技术官僚主权的新形态。这种新形态使权力行使从政治决策转化为技术流程,进一步掩盖了其政治性。

4. 制度批判的当代延伸与政策含义(Contemporary Synthesis)

当代技术条件(如算法治理、数字监控)为古典批判理论带来新挑战: - 算法治理的权力扩展:英国政府可通过算法优化(如基于“风险量化”的威胁评估)进一步强化其干预权力。算法治理通过技术中立的修辞,将权力行使的政治性隐藏在“客观”数据与模型中,使政府的干预权力获得技术合法性。 - 数字监控与权力扩展:政府若进一步将供应链管控与数字监控(如企业网络监控、员工行为分析)挂钩,将使权力行使从技术官僚主权扩展到数字监控主权,进一步强化对私营企业与公民的规训与控制。 - 政策含义:要避免例外状态的常态化与权力扩展,需: 1. 限制例外状态的范围:明确例外状态的适用条件与时限,避免其常态化。立法应建立透明的监督机制,确保政府的干预权力受到民主问责。 2. 重构公私边界:通过立法明确政府与私营企业的权力边界,避免政府通过立法扩展其干预权力。同时,鼓励私营企业参与网络安全治理,形成多中心治理模式。 3. 引入技术中立原则:将算法与数字监控的使用限制在技术中立的框架内,避免其被用于权力扩展。立法应建立算法透明度公民参与机制,确保技术使用的合法性。


▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

提炼 3 个具有穿透力的开放性制度研究追问: 1. 【韦伯官僚制“铁笼”与路径依赖的交织:英国住房政策如何突破制度惯性?】 - 该问题聚焦于英国住房政策的路径依赖官僚制锁定效应,探讨如何通过制度设计(如多中心治理、技术中立原则)突破既有框架,实现政策变革。

  1. 【施密特例外状态的常态化:网络安全立法如何重构主权权力与技术官僚的关系?】 - 该问题聚焦于例外状态在网络安全领域的常态化,探讨技术官僚如何通过立法扩展主权权力,并分析其对民主问责与公私边界的冲击。

  2. 【算法治理与数字监控:供应链防护立法如何为权力扩展提供技术合法性?】 - 该问题聚焦于算法治理数字监控在权力扩展中的作用,探讨技术中立修辞如何掩盖权力行使的政治性,并分析其对公民权利与企业自主性的冲击。

🔍 解读视角:本篇基于制度理性架构(Logos)与生活世界集体情感(Pathos)内在辩证机制展开。

制度与权力批判深度研判:Financial Times (2026-08-25)


▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后,以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思:


  1. 【新加坡育儿补贴政策下的生命意义断裂】 [F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍](生活领域:[家庭/文化])
    • 事件简述:新加坡总理黄循财宣布每名儿童将获得高达87万新元(约63,100英镑)的直接经济支持,试图扭转该国创纪录的超低生育率(0.07名儿童/女性)。然而,这一政策背后隐含着对生命意义的重新定义:政府将生育简化为“经济成本-收益核算”,而年轻一代却在“推迟生育”或“决定不再生育”的焦虑中挣扎。
    • 情感政治切入点:政策话语将生命意义量化为可计算的经济支持,却忽视了个体对“何为有意义生活”的主体性追问。黄循财的“我们将与你们同行”承诺,实则是一场系统理性对情感存在的殖民——将生命意义压缩为“生育=GDP增长”的单一叙事,而底层情感痛点(如对未来的绝望、对移民压力的排斥)被系统性地压制为“非理性”。

  1. 【乌克兰Ozon物流中心袭击中的平民痛感】 [F20_39 🔍](生活领域:[战争/身体])
    • 事件简述:乌克兰无人机袭击俄罗斯第二大在线零售商Ozon位于克拉斯诺达尔郊区的物流中心,至少两处设施受损。这一袭击不仅是军事行动,更是对平民基础设施的直接打击——成千上万俄罗斯民众依赖Ozon的日常配送维持生计。
    • 情感政治切入点:战争逻辑将平民基础设施(如物流中心)视为“合法军事目标”,却忽视了其背后的集体记忆与情感依赖。Ozon不仅是商业平台,更是俄罗斯中产阶层日常生活的“生命线”。袭击制造的痛感(断供、失业、焦虑)被系统理性(军事效率、战略目标)所压制,成为战争机器的“可消耗”情感成本。

  1. 【加拿大汽车关税战中的工人肉身牺牲】 [F2_3 🔍][F2_4 🔍](生活领域:[劳动/经济])
    • 事件简述:特朗普宣布将对加拿大汽车及零部件征收50%关税,加拿大总理杜鲁道回应称“当你受到攻击时,就是战争”。福特、通用等汽车制造商股价暴跌,加拿大汽车零部件制造商协会主席警告称“不确定性将降低投资”,而工人则面临裁员、工资削减或工厂关闭的威胁。
    • 情感政治切入点:关税政策的“强硬表述”与“情绪化反应”(如特朗普的“加拿大被惯坏了”言论)直接展现了政治情感动员对工人肉身的剥夺。系统理性(贸易保护主义、GDP增长)将工人简化为“可替代的生产要素”,而其痛感(失业、贫困、尊严丧失)被定义为“非理性的抱怨”,成为权力博弈的牺牲品。

▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)


专题一: 【系统理性的殖民化:新加坡育儿补贴政策如何将生命意义量化为GDP算法】

1. 系统理性模型解构(Deconstruction of Systemic Logos)

新加坡育儿补贴政策的核心逻辑是将生命意义完全量化为经济指标,其背后的系统理性模型包括: - GDP增长叙事:黄循财将生育率下降定义为“经济危机”,并以“GDP增长=人口增长=繁荣”的单一叙事掩盖了更复杂的社会结构性问题(如房价、教育成本、工作压力)。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍] - 成本-收益核算:每名儿童87万新元的补贴被简化为“投资回报率”的计算,而忽视了生命意义的无法量化性(如亲密关系、社区归属、文化传承)。 - 技术官僚话语:政策制定者以“数据驱动”的面具,将个体对“何为有意义生活”的追问压制为“非理性的情绪”。例如,黄循财警告称“总和生育率可能远低于世代更替水平”,实则是将生命意义简化为“生育=人口红利”的算法逻辑。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍]

2. 生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描(Phenomenological Pathos)

在系统理性的殖民下,新加坡年轻一代的痛感具体表现为: - 时间焦虑:许多年轻人因“追求经济保障”而推迟生育,或决定不再生育。这种焦虑不是抽象的“未来不确定性”,而是肉身存在的紧迫感——他们害怕无法在有限的生命时间内实现“体面生活”的标准(如房子、稳定工作、子女教育)。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍] - 社区断裂:移民政策与高房价导致本地居民对“外来人口”的排斥情绪。这种情感不是简单的“种族主义”,而是对社区归属感的绝望——他们感到自己被排除在“新加坡梦”之外,而政府的补贴政策无法触及这种深层的情感创伤。 - 文化虚无:在“GDP增长=生命意义”的叙事下,传统的家庭价值观(如多子多福)被简化为“经济负担”。年轻一代在“何为有意义生活”的追问中陷入意义危机,而政府的补贴政策无法提供情感上的慰藉。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍]

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦(The Dialectical Friction)

系统理性与生命痛感的辩证摩擦具体表现为: - 系统理性的压制:政府将育儿补贴定义为“解决方案”,却忽视了其背后的情感剥夺。例如,黄循财的“我们将与你们同行”承诺,实则是将个体的情感需求简化为“经济支持”的技术问题。这种话语霸权将痛感定义为“非理性的抱怨”,从而合法化系统理性的殖民。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍] - 底层情感的反噬:年轻一代对“生命意义”的追问,蕴含着对系统理性的隐性批判。例如,许多人拒绝生育不是因为“懒惰”,而是对“未来的绝望”——他们感到系统理性(GDP增长、房价、工作压力)正在吞噬生命的尊严。这种情感反噬表现为对政治体系的疏离,乃至对“新加坡模式”的整体质疑。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍] - 不可调和的张力:系统理性将生命意义简化为“可计算的经济支持”,而生命痛感则是无法量化的存在体验。这种张力无法通过技术调整(如增加补贴金额)来解决,因为其核心问题是系统理性对情感存在的殖民[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍]

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断(Affective Prognosis)

  • 制度端冷色调语言:政府话语以“数据驱动”、“GDP增长”、“经济支持”为核心,呈现出冷色调的技术官僚风格。例如,黄循财的演讲充斥着“补贴金额”、“生育率目标”等量化指标,而缺乏对个体情感体验的关怀。[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍]
  • 生活端热色调语言:年轻一代的痛感则表现为热色调的情感语言——如“绝望”、“焦虑”、“无意义感”。这种话语温度差揭示了系统理性与生命世界的彻底脱节,而社会心理韧性的缺失正是这种脱节的直接后果。
  • 理论框架应用:基于萨拉·艾哈迈德的情感政治学(Sticky Emotions),新加坡的育儿补贴政策通过“粘性情感”(如对“未来”的焦虑)将个体绑定在系统理性的叙事中。然而,这种粘性情感一旦被激活(如年轻一代的拒绝生育),将反过来颠覆系统理性的合法性[F4_7 🔍][F4_8 🔍]

专题二: 【战争机器的情感成本:乌克兰Ozon物流中心袭击中的平民痛感与公共领域暴力】

1. 系统理性模型解构(Deconstruction of Systemic Logos)

乌克兰对Ozon物流中心的袭击,其背后的系统理性模型包括: - 军事效率逻辑:战争被简化为“目标打击=胜利”的算法,而忽视了平民基础设施(如物流中心)对日常生活的支撑作用。Ozon不仅是商业平台,更是俄罗斯中产阶层依赖的生命线(如食品、药品、日用品的配送)。[F20_39 🔍] - 公共领域的暴力合法化:根据阿伦特的公共领域理论,战争中的平民基础设施袭击将政治暴力与平民痛感直接联结。系统理性将这种暴力定义为“合法军事行动”,却忽视了其对集体记忆与情感依赖的破坏。[F20_39 🔍] - 数据驱动的战争:乌克兰与英国的技术分享协议(如训练60个模型打击俄罗斯目标)进一步强化了战争的算法化逻辑。平民痛感被简化为“可消耗的数据单元”,而其情感创伤则被系统性地忽视。[F20_39 🔍]

2. 生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描(Phenomenological Pathos)

Ozon物流中心袭击的痛感具体表现为: - 肉身依赖的断裂:对于俄罗斯中产阶层而言,Ozon不仅是购物平台,更是日常生活的支撑。袭击导致的断供、失业、焦虑,不是抽象的“经济损失”,而是肉身存在的紧迫感——他们无法获得基本的生活必需品,感到生命尊严被剥夺。[F20_39 🔍] - 集体记忆的创伤:Ozon作为俄罗斯电商的象征,承载着中产阶层对“正常生活”的想象。袭击制造的痛感不仅是当下的焦虑,更是对未来的绝望——他们感到战争正在吞噬“正常生活”的可能性。[F20_39 🔍] - 社区归属的丧失:在战争语境下,平民痛感被简化为“战争的代价”,而忽视了其对社区归属感的破坏。例如,许多人因断供而无法获得药品,感到被整个社会抛弃。[F20_39 🔍]

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦(The Dialectical Friction)

系统理性与生命痛感的辩证摩擦具体表现为: - 系统理性的暴力合法化:战争逻辑将平民基础设施袭击定义为“合法军事行动”,却忽视了其对平民痛感的剥夺。例如,乌克兰与英国的技术分享协议进一步强化了战争的算法化逻辑,将平民痛感简化为“可消耗的数据单元”。[F20_39 🔍] - 底层情感的反噬:平民痛感蕴含着对战争机器的隐性批判。例如,俄罗斯民众对Ozon断供的愤怒,不仅是对“经济损失”的不满,更是对生命尊严被剥夺的反抗。这种情感反噬表现为对战争叙事的疏离,乃至对“爱国主义”的质疑。[F20_39 🔍] - 不可调和的张力:系统理性将战争简化为“目标打击=胜利”的算法,而生命痛感则是无法量化的存在体验。这种张力无法通过军事胜利来解决,因为其核心问题是战争机器对情感存在的殖民[F20_39 🔍]

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断(Affective Prognosis)

  • 制度端冷色调语言:战争话语以“军事效率”、“目标打击”、“胜利”为核心,呈现出冷色调的技术官僚风格。例如,乌克兰与英国的技术分享协议充斥着“模型训练”、“数据分析”等量化指标,而缺乏对平民痛感的关怀。[F20_39 🔍]
  • 生活端热色调语言:俄罗斯民众的痛感则表现为热色调的情感语言——如“绝望”、“愤怒”、“无助感”。这种话语温度差揭示了系统理性与生命世界的彻底脱节,而社会心理韧性的缺失正是这种脱节的直接后果。
  • 理论框架应用:基于汉娜·阿伦特的公共领域理论,乌克兰对Ozon物流中心的袭击将政治暴力与平民痛感直接联结,揭示了战争机器对公共领域的殖民。而平民痛感的反噬,则可能颠覆战争叙事的合法性。[F20_39 🔍]

▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

  1. 【技术官僚理性如何重新定义“生命意义”?】 在新加坡育儿补贴政策与乌克兰战争袭击中,系统理性通过量化指标(GDP、军事效率)将生命意义简化为“可计算的经济或军事价值”。然而,这种定义忽视了生命意义的无法量化性(如尊严、归属、爱)。未来研究可探讨:如何在不牺牲个体情感存在的前提下,重新定义“生命意义”的系统性框架?

  2. 【情感动员如何成为权力工具?】 特朗普的关税政策与乌克兰战争袭击,均通过情感动员(如愤怒、恐惧、爱国主义)来合法化系统理性的暴力。然而,这种动员一旦被激活,将反过来颠覆权力体系本身。未来研究可探讨:情感动员在权力博弈中的双刃剑效应,以及如何避免其被系统性地滥用?

  3. 【如何构建“情感韧性”的社会机制?】 在系统理性对情感存在的殖民下,个体痛感被简化为“可消耗的成本”。然而,痛感也蕴含着对系统理性的隐性批判。未来研究可探讨:如何通过社区网络、文化传承、心理支持等机制,构建个体对抗系统理性殖民的情感韧性