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The Weekend Update

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK

Markets reassess ‘Trump trades’ after Joe Biden withdraws from race

There was a muted reaction in markets on Monday following Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the US presidential race, as investors tried to work out the implications for “Trump trade” positions they had built in the past few weeks.

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Markets reassess ‘Trump trades’ after Joe Biden withdraws from race

Democrats Line Up Behind Harris After Biden Drops Out

Joe Biden drops out of US election and endorses Kamala Harris

Ken Griffin lists Gold Coast penthouse for $11M

FIA releases best practices for automated trading risk controls and system safeguards

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Exberry secures cloud trading tech partnership with Google

Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz Made PR Blunder With Late Apology

Global Finance Contends With IT Outage: These Are the Companies Affected

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Bill Ackman slashes fundraising target for US fund IPO by as much as 90%

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Justice Elena Kagan Calls for Enforceable Supreme Court Ethics Rules

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FROM JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS

LSEG’s Kooroshy: carbon intensive debt almost a mini asset class

$5.5 trillion debt significant to the net-zero transition

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) systematically quantified how much debt in fixed-income markets relies on repayment from companies in carbon-intensive sectors. The report, “Tracing Carbon-Intensive Debt: Identifying And Calibrating Climate Risks In Corporate Fixed Income,” uncovered $5.5 trillion of this debt, with two-thirds owed by privately held companies or state-owned enterprises, with more than half of it needing to be refinanced before 2030.

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Immigrants Are Risk Takers and I Like Risk Takers

Last week during the GOP convention in Milwaukee we heard a lot of bad things about immigrants. This is actually a very old story in American politics. A bill passed by the very first Congress of the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790, limited naturalization to “free white person(s) … of good character,” explicitly excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free Africans, and Asians from citizenship.

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