Odey Asset Management freezes funds as clients pull money, prime brokers flee

By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) -Odey Asset Management (OAM) is closing one fund and restricting money clients can pull from another, two investor letters showed, just as the hedge fund was scrambling on Tuesday to keep its prime brokers from ending vital relationships with the firm. These developments follow allegations of sexual misconduct by its…

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Sudanese refugees in Chad risk losing aid as rainy season looms, says MSF

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad to escape fighting in their country could be cut off from humanitarian and medical aid during the approaching rainy season, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday. More than 100,000 people have fled across the border to Chad since conflict broke out…

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Factbox-Analysts bet bumper Turkish rate hikes on the way

LONDON (Reuters) – Analysts at leading investment banks expect Turkey’s new economic chiefs to start ramping up interest rates next week as part of a major reset of the country’s economic policies. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, re-elected last month, has just appointed former U.S. banker Hafize Gaye Erkan as the new central bank governor. She…

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China cuts short-term borrowing costs to support recovery

By Winni Zhou and Tom Westbrook SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s central bank lowered a short-term lending rate for the first time in 10 months on Tuesday, to help restore market confidence and prop up a stalling post-pandemic recovery in the world’s second-largest economy. The cut to the lending rate signals possible easing for longer-term rates…

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‘Goodbye President’: Berlusconi fans pay tribute to late leader

By Cristiano Corvino MILAN (Reuters) -Supporters of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi gathered outside his villa near Milan on a rainy Tuesday morning to honour the billionaire who dominated Italy’s politics, business and soccer world for nearly three decades. Berlusconi aged 86, three days after his readmission to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where…

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