Disclosing Public Debt Boosts Investor Confidence, Cuts Borrowing Costs
you are currently viewing::Disclosing Public Debt Boosts Investor Confidence, Cuts Borrowing CostsJune 12, 2025--Greater debt transparency builds investor confidence, helps reduce borrowing costs, and strengthens debt sustainability-reducing the risk of shocks that can lead to a debt crisis Governments, particularly those in emerging market and developing economies, face both mounting debt service costs and shrinking room to maneuver in government budgets. The result is fewer resources for social programs or investments, reduced capacity to respond to shocks, and higher borrowing costs. In addition to issuing more debt, countries are increasingly using complex and opaque forms of financing. New debt instruments such as guaranteed, securitized, and collateralized debt contracts linked to public-private partnerships, state-owned enterprises, or SOEs, and pension funds have appeared on the scene. Source: IMF.org |
December 23, 2025-ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm renowned for its expertise in subscription research, consulting services, events, and ETF TV on global ETF industry trends, reported today that assets invested in the actively managed ETFs listed globally reached a new record of US$1.86 trillion at the end of November.
December 22, 2025-ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm renowned for its expertise in subscription research, consulting services, events, and ETF TV on global ETF industry trends, reported today that assets invested in the ETFs industry globally reached a new record of US$19.44 trillion at the end of November.
December 18, 2025-BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited ("BlackRock Canada"), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. ("BlackRock") (NYSE: BLK) is announcing that effective on December 18, 2025, the annual management fees of the following iShares exchange-traded funds ("iShares Funds") will change as follows:
December 18, 2025-Leverage Shares by Themes expand their offering with seven new single stock leveraged ETFs, available for trading starting December 18, 2025. These products are designed to empower investors to amplify returns (up and down) and actively engage with the performance of Nio Inc., Snap Inc., Baidu Inc., Centene Corp., KLA Corp., Petroleo Brasileiro, and Vale.
December 17, 2025--For more than five millennia, humanity has been captivated by gold-the immutable metal that has illuminated temples, crowned emperors, and underpinned monetary systems. Its story is as much about economics as it is about psychology. Across the centuries, gold has functioned as currency, ornament, reserve, and metaphor-embodying the human desire for permanence in a world of change. In an age of crypto assets, artificial intelligence, and central bank digital currencies, its persistence raises a question both ancient and modern: Why does gold still hold value?
December 15, 2025-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth showed a mixed picture across the 16 G20* countries for which data was available1 in the third quarter of 2025. Growth picked up in seven countries compared with Q2 2025, fell in another seven countries, and two countries recorded a contraction.
December 15, 2025-Global value chains (GVCs) have been resilient in the face of rising geopolitical tensions,financial uncertainty,climate pressures and the COVID-19 pandemic according to the GVC Development Report 2025 launched at the WTO on 15 December.
December 13, 2025-Yet one in four developing economies remains poorer than it was in 2019
The global economy is proving more resilient than anticipated despite persistent trade tensions and policy uncertainty, according to the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report.