The rising

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Insolvencies more than double as rampant inflation and rising ... (City A.M.)

Tax and accountancy firm Mazars said UK firms were feeling the squeeze as interest rate hikes had left some firms unable to service debt. “Businesses that were ...

This time they are having to manage without government support.” The figures revealed 1,844 Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations (CVLs), when firms voluntarily elect for liquidation – more than double the number in March 2021 and 62 per cent higher than March 2019. Company insolvencies more than doubled last month as soaring inflation and rising borrowing costs pushed firms over the edge.

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Putin's inner circle's shrinking - and the stakes are rising, writes ... (Daily Mail)

Few in the Kremlin's inner circle get a face-to-face audience with president Vladimir Putin these days. The Russian dictator is paranoid about contracting ...

The weapons have been partly decommissioned and would have to be removed from storage, transported to the launchers and made active. The devastation would be the equivalent of a Hiroshima or Nagasaki. But that doesn’t seem to matter to Putin, who is rumoured to have both Parkinson’s disease and cancer. Talk of ‘tactical nukes’ is a euphemism. Talk of ‘tactical nukes’ is a euphemism. One of the few people he still listens to is the Secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev. A former head of the FSB or secret police, Patrushev wears a suit these days but his soul, if he has one, wears a uniform. Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin is a moderate who is known to oppose the war – without ever stating it directly.

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Simplify ETF Offers Way to Hedge Rising Interest Rates (Investopedia)

The Simplify Interest Rate Hedge ETF (PFIX) provides price appreciation to offset losses in equity or bond portfolios as rates rise.

With the Fed threatening to aggressively raise interest rates in an effort to combat the growing inflation, there is tremendous risk of more significant declines in both equity and bond portfolios. The rest of the portfolio, 56% at the end of February, holds U.S. Treasury bonds.5 About 50% of the fund's portfolio holds over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate options on swaps, known as swaptions, and cash. Since then, the 10-year's yield has been steadily rising as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates in an effort to combat a U.S. inflation rate surging at its fastest pace in 40 years. On Wednesday, April 20, the 10-year hit 2.98%, its highest point since December 2018.1 At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond bottomed out at 0.51% in August 2020.

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Dad-of-four on Universal Credit struggling with rising cost of living as ... (WalesOnline)

He said his family was 'managing' while he searches for a job. Having previously been employed as a forklift driver and pizza takeaway worker, Mr Ali has spent ...

Friends have told him they are looking out for a job for him and he says he's keen to start earning a wage again. I have been looking for a job for two or three months." Mr Ali says that, after the rent has been paid, the family does not have a lot of money left over to pay for other things. The last time was 2015 when we went to Sweden and Holland as a family." "Shopping is very hard now," he says. Having previously been employed as a forklift driver and pizza takeaway worker, Mr Ali has spent the last two years on benefits.

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