Trophy assets: Euros and Copa wins lift stock markets marc jones reuters.com/markets/trophy…

Thames Water downgraded to junk by Moody's Ratings

Barbados debt-for-climate swap nears as EIB, IDB finalise guarantees reuters.com/sustainability…

Conflict, creditors and a car crash: How Ukraine clinched a wartime debt restructuring reuters.com/markets/europe…

Double take story of the week. Why always Rwanda? reuters.com/world/germanys…

Ahead of the Trump/Harris debate, interesting to chart which EM stock markets generate the biggest share of their revenues from abroad vs domestically h/t Franklin Templeton

U.S. rate cuts are coming. Here's how stocks, bonds and the dollar could respond to the long-awaited start of this monetary easing cycle. reuters.com/graphics/USA-M…

Great story, hits the big picture nail right on the head Thames Water Offers Cautionary Tale for Investors Starmer Needs to Woo bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Just 3 months ago Britain's largest and most-troubled water provider Thames Water had a coveted investment grade credit rating, now it's on the brink of default reuters.com/world/uk/moody…

Last year’s record Galapagos debt-for-nature swap is now being scrutinized after locals complained that they are being kept in dark and that the conservation money hasn’t turned up yet reuters.com/business/envir…

Britain will become the first G7 country to end coal-fired power production with the closure of its last plant, Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar in England’s Midlands, ending over 140 years of coal power as part of measures to reach the UK’s climate targets reut.rs/3ZLJXLU

A wild quarter for the markets: The yen's strongest run since the 2008 global crash, central banks swivelling at speed, oil diving, gold shining and China spraying economic stimulus reuters.com/markets/global…

Interesting estimates from Fitch Ratings on how much the top multilateral development banks can lend before their coveted credit ratings get cut

The CDS market has just priced in an additional U.S. rating downgrade according to S&P's model - now 3 notches of cuts being priced

Central bank digital currencies just got a whole lot more geopolitical reuters.com/business/finan…

Lots of folks predicting S&P S&P Global will put France on a 'negative outlook' later. The CDS market is pricing in a downgrade - not that it has been very good at predicting these things recently.

4 billion AI robots in the world by 2050 according to the folks at Citi

World Bank ventures into debt swaps with Ivory Coast education deal reut.rs/3OJLJGy

Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Man City verdict: What's at stake for the Premier League champions? reuters.com/sports/soccer/…