What to watch Payment giants: Rivals Visa and Mastercard both deliver their third-quarter earnings reports on Wednesday, with the latter marginally ahead in the share price stakes in 2020 so far. Both firms are dependent on payments volume, to which a recession poses a threat, and the companies’ results will provide a window into the…
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Franklin Templeton just announced that it has accessed the Swiss market as ETF issuer with five smart beta ETFs for which Susquehanna is acting as a market maker and providing the liquidity. The five smart beta ETFs newly tradable as of today. They provide investors additional opportunities to diversify their portfolio with European as well…
Read moreU.S. fund manager Franklin Templeton Investments (NYSE:BEN) has announced the launching of a new global currency fund headed by its star bond investor Michael Hasenstab and one of his chief lieutenants. Hasenstab, who has made his name buying markets shunned by others, such as Ireland at the height of its debt crisis, said the new fund would…
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