Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Iran war live updates: US temporarily lets India buy Russian oil amid energy fears; Israeli military launches strikes on Beirut Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. The oil price is on track for its biggest monthly gain in four years, fuelling fears of an inflation spik...
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Iran war live updates: US temporarily lets India buy Russian oil amid energy fears; Israeli military launches strikes on Beirut Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. The oil price is on track for its biggest monthly gain in four years, fuelling fears of an inflation spike that will reignite the cost of living crisis and hurt growth around the globe. 7am GMT: Halifax house price index for February 1.30pm GMT: US non farm payrolls employment data for February 1.30pm GMT: US retail sales report for January Continue reading...
(RTTNews) - Ingram Micro Holding Corp. (INGM), a distributor of information technology products and services, on Friday priced a secondary public offering of 8.99 million shares by selling stockholder Ingram Holdco LLC, an affiliate of Platinum Equity, at $22.25 per share. The offering is also expected to close on or about March 9. The selling stockholder granted underwriters a 30-day option to pu...
(RTTNews) - Ingram Micro Holding Corp. (INGM), a distributor of information technology products and services, on Friday priced a secondary public offering of 8.99 million shares by selling stockholder Ingram Holdco LLC, an affiliate of Platinum Equity, at $22.25 per share. The offering is also expected to close on or about March 9. The selling stockholder granted underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 1.35 million additional shares at the public offering price. The selling stockholder will receive all net proceeds from the offering. Ingram Micro is not selling any shares and will not receive any proceeds. Further, the company expects to close a previously announced $75 million share repurchase from the selling stockholder on or about March 9, at the same net price paid by the underwriters. The repurchase will be funded with cash on hand. Ingram Micro Holding closed trading, 0.27% higher at $26.36 on the New York Stock Exchange. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Millions of barrels of oil and gas are stuck near the Strait of Hormuz - a narrow Gulf chokepoint through which nearly half of India's crude oil and gas imports transits. Tehran has threatened to attack vessels attempting to pass through since the US and Israel began their war against Iran.
Millions of barrels of oil and gas are stuck near the Strait of Hormuz - a narrow Gulf chokepoint through which nearly half of India's crude oil and gas imports transits. Tehran has threatened to attack vessels attempting to pass through since the US and Israel began their war against Iran.
The conflict in the Middle East could spark another round of devaluations in Africa as rising energy costs limit authorities’ ability to defend their currencies, according to BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions Inc. Burundi’s franc and Malawi’s kwacha are most vulnerable as high energy import costs erode buffers, according to Orson Gard, a senior emerging- and frontier-market analyst at BMI. The Iran w...
The conflict in the Middle East could spark another round of devaluations in Africa as rising energy costs limit authorities’ ability to defend their currencies, according to BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions Inc. Burundi’s franc and Malawi’s kwacha are most vulnerable as high energy import costs erode buffers, according to Orson Gard, a senior emerging- and frontier-market analyst at BMI. The Iran war already threatens to unleash renewed inflationary pressures as oil prices surge, risking an end to a policy easing cycle across the continent. A wave of devaluations last hit the region from 2023, affecting Nigeria to Egypt , Angola and Ethiopia. The Egyptian pound this week fell to its weakest level against the dollar since July. “We consider countries with an already-strained external position and considerable currency overvaluation (in real effective exchange rate terms) to be at most risk of weakness in an escalatory US-Iran conflict scenario,” Gard said. “Should the US-Iran war escalate and last longer than we currently anticipate, the likelihood of a significant devaluation would increase substantially.” Read more: Oil at $85 Makes Nigeria a Winner, While Congo Has Most to Lose Burundi is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s “most exposed currencies” because of its reliance on imported oil and “critically low” reserve buffers due to the central bank’s strategy of managing the franc’s exchange rate, Gard said. While authorities will likely try to maintain a gradual depreciation of the franc, a prolonged Middle East war would increase the likelihood of a “significant devaluation” similar to the one seen in 2023 , he said. That year, the franc lost more than a quarter of its value within a month. The Malawian kwacha is also “highly exposed,” with similar risks to Burundi including foreign-exchange reserves of less than one month’s import cover. “We see limited scope for policymakers to defend the kwacha’s value in the event of an external shock,” Gard said. Other frontier-mark...