Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.
Insurers gear up for new charges
Solvency II rules could cause a sell-off of equities and corporate debt among European insurers. Instead they might be pushed into more local currency emerging market debt and supposedly risk-free sovereign debt. With $22,000bn in assets, what they do will move markets Read more
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 23 2013 16:35 |
6,697 | -143.48 | -2.1% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 23 2013 17:15 |
1,230 | -26.34 | -2.1% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 22 2013 05:00 |
1,655 | -13.81 | -0.8% | 1,687 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 23 2013 17:59 |
1.29 | 0.00 | -0.0% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 23 2013 22:59 |
102.66 | +0.06 | +0.1% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 23 2013 23:15 |
1,392 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 1,795 |
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1About China's capacity to absorb more capital
2Japan's mini crash: Blame China, not just Ben
3Spain's awful unemployment
4The Nikkei: a market abducted by retail
5S&P 2,100, by Goldman Sachs
Show more6Everlasting credit, the long view
7Measure it however you like: inflation has been low and falling
8Buyback to enrich
9Apple Operations International, facts (?) du jour
10Everyone's scared of something
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