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Growth is expected to modestly accelerate in the US in Q3 2013 following sub-2% growth in the first half of the year. Key factors that will influence growth include the household deleveraging cycle, policy decisions around sequestration, manufacturing trends, expectations of Fed policy, and the impact of rising rates on housing. The unemployment rate is expected to continue moving toward 7% as job growth holds around 175,000 per month. The Fed will likely begin tapering asset purchases in September and maintain low rates until 2015.
The document provides a summary of major risk-related events that occurred throughout 2012, including increases and decreases in corporate hedging positions across different industries and asset classes in response to market volatility. It also lists the top risk events by month that impacted markets and reviews portfolio performance based on factors like industry, region, and investment style. The outlook for risk in 2013 from corporate executives is also examined.
Growth is expected to modestly accelerate in the US in Q3 2013 following sub-2% growth in the first half of the year. Key factors that will influence growth include the household deleveraging cycle, policy decisions around sequestration, manufacturing trends, expectations of Fed policy, and the impact of rising rates on housing. The unemployment rate is expected to continue moving toward 7% as job growth holds around 175,000 per month. The Fed will likely begin tapering asset purchases in September and maintain low rates until 2015.
The document provides a summary of major risk-related events that occurred throughout 2012, including increases and decreases in corporate hedging positions across different industries and asset classes in response to market volatility. It also lists the top risk events by month that impacted markets and reviews portfolio performance based on factors like industry, region, and investment style. The outlook for risk in 2013 from corporate executives is also examined.
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10 Ways Your Boss Kills Employee MotivationOfficevibe
This document outlines 10 ways that bosses can kill employee motivation, including micromanaging employees, focusing only on mistakes, dismissing new ideas, holding useless meetings, making empty promises, telling inappropriate jokes, not keeping their word, measuring employee success in the wrong way, setting unrealistic deadlines, and playing favorites. The document encourages bosses to listen to employee concerns to better motivate them.
The article discusses the growing pains facing bitcoin as it transitions from a novelty to a mainstream currency and payment system. While startups are forming around uses like brokerages and bitcoin storage, consumers remain unconvinced of using bitcoin to buy goods and services. Regulators are also proving challenging, imposing new rules around capital gains taxes and how banks can handle bitcoins. The future of bitcoin is uncertain, as it works to match the rhetoric around its potential with real-world adoption, but some see opportunities in uses like international payments and micropayments in emerging markets.
Britain’s two-party system is being eroded by an unprecedented surge of support for smaller parties. This Bloomberg Brief report examines the implications of the most uncertain general election in a generation.
This document provides a summary of new restaurant openings and top restaurants from July 2014 to February 2015. It begins with the top 5 restaurants in London, New York, Hong Kong, and Paris from July 2014. It then discusses various new restaurants that have opened and provides recommendations for becoming a regular customer at certain restaurants to receive preferential treatment. The document also reviews Chef Bobby Flay's new restaurant Gato in New York and Heston Blumenthal's new airport cafe at Heathrow Terminal 2.
The document summarizes recommendations from a report by the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) commission on reforms to U.S. bankruptcy law. The ABI commission studied issues that were not contemplated in the 1978 Bankruptcy Code and proposed several changes. These include: slightly slowing the increasing speed of bankruptcy sales, restricting the use of "milestones" that require a sale within 60 days; trimming back the protections of "safe harbors" for securities transactions; and giving more protections to unions and trademark license holders in business sales.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Bloomberg Brief: Real Estate focused on the main trends in the residential and commercial markets. In this issue, former FDIC Chief William M. Isaac explains how the latest recovery differs from prior cycles and why the home price rebound has been muted. Fannie Mae’s Tom Seidenstein and Steve Deggendorf outline their expectations for credit standards in residential housing finance, and Bloomberg economist Josh Wright explains why MBS spreads won’t widen much as the Fed reins in purchases and housing agencies trim portfolios.
Then there are what Michelle Meyer, economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, refers to as the “Boomerang Borrowers.” These former homeowners who lost houses through a foreclosure or short sale and want to return as owners are finding that credit is harder to get. This in turn could have an impact on demand for new and existing homes. As Meyer points out, nearly 17 percent of all homeowners with a mortgage in 2006 fell into either foreclosure or short sale.
On the residential and commercial real estate finance side, the picture continues to improve. Financing costs for office and retail property borrowers have dropped thanks to lower AAA- and BBB-rated CMBS spreads. Some of the narrowing in CMBS spreads is tied to demand from investors looking for extra yield at a time when U.S. Treasury 10-year debt yields 2.36 percent and the 30-year yields just over 3 percent.
The yield hunt may also explain lower CMBS issuance. According to Jefferies’ Lisa Pendergast, a greater number of investors financed commercial property purchases and retained the loans on their own balance sheets rather than sold them. This forced participants to cut expectations for 2014 CMBS issuance. The appetite to put money to work in commercial real estate finance shows up in other ways, notably heightened use of interest-only and partial IO loans. Just over half of the mortgages resold into CMBS so far this year allowed borrowers to pay just interest, or had partial-IO characteristics.
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An old-media kind of guy, I still keep file folders of stories, blog entries, clippings, messages and reports printed out and more or less sorted. Back in early 2009, I started a file labeled “Hysteria’’to hold the physical evidence of what I thought the most unusual and even outlandish claims being leveled against an asset class I have spent 33 years writing about —municipal bonds. - Joe Mysak, Bloomberg Brief Editor
- Detroit won a commitment from Barclays for $275 million in financing to fund its exit from bankruptcy, if a judge approves its debt-cutting plans.
- The money from Barclays would pay off previous borrowing, creditors, and help revitalize the city.
- Detroit filed for bankruptcy unable to provide services and meet financial obligations due to decades of economic and population decline. It has since cut deals to reduce its $18 billion in liabilities.
This special supplement includes insight from leading economists and market observers about the future of home sales, what higher rates mean for affordability and what regulatory changes at the U.S. housing agencies will do to long-term fixed rate mortgages. Inside you will also find unique data on commercial mortgage issuance, CMBS loan leverage, mortgage delinquencies and commercial property cap rates, as well as insight into real estate development in Manhattan.
Reporting requirements for over-the-counter derivatives trades go into effect on Feb. 12 under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. As companies prepare, they also look ahead to mandatory clearing and the reporting of valuation and collateral, which are set to begin in the third quarter.
The European Union's new derivatives reporting rules under EMIR go into effect on February 12, 2014. These rules require firms to report over-the-counter derivatives transactions to trade repositories. While preparations are underway, some businesses warn they may not have all systems in place by the deadline. The rules bring more regulation to the $693 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market and aim to increase transparency after the 2008 financial crisis.
Bloomberg Brief - Mergers Year End Supplement 2013Bloomberg Briefs
The document provides an overview and analysis of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2013. Some key points:
- Total global M&A deal value was up only slightly in 2013 compared to 2012, with a single mega-deal between Verizon and Vodafone accounting for over 5% of the total value.
- The energy sector accounted for a smaller portion of deals compared to recent years, while communications deals made up a larger share, driven by telecom mergers.
- North America remained the dominant region for deals, accounting for over 40% of global activity. However, some of the largest deals involved European companies.
- Private equity firms were involved in two of
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Please also find attached our Real Estate Supplement. In it you will read about how issuance of bonds backed by commercial properties is on track to beat last year's supply and yield premiums for bonds backed by commercial property loans have narrowed. Also, Jefferies CMBS veteran Lisa Pendergast says she expects CMBS spreads to narrow by year end, while Fannie Mae economists Douglas Duncan and Patrick Simmons argue that a slowdown in the growth of the labor force suggests more modest prospects for the demand for new housing and construction. Emile J. Brinkmann, the chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, probes how state regulations will affect the pace of foreclosures and delinquencies. Nicolas Retsinas of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing has some advice for lawmakers on GSE reform and Donald Trump offers a characteristically confident view that the recovery in real estate. If you have any comments or feedback for future real estate issues please contact arozens@bloomberg.net.
Private equity firms are targeting the $3.6 trillion 401(k) market as a new source of growth amid lackluster fundraising. Firms like Blackstone, KKR, and Carlyle are developing products tailored for individual investors with lower minimums in an effort to gain access to retirement plans. However, adding alternative investments like private equity to 401(k)s faces challenges around fees, liquidity, and fiduciary responsibility for employers.