As Brazilians try to get over their humiliating World Cup defeat, a bigger problem looms on the horizon: the country’s struggling economy. Samantha Pearson, the FT’s Brazil reporter, looks at what is worrying Brazilians and how this might affect the country’s presidential elections in October.
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Most active fund managers fail to beat their benchmark index. But it’s worse than that. That benchmark is often weighted by market value, meaning the most expensive stocks are overweighted. Tim Edwards, director of index strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices, tells John Authers that equal-weighted indices would make a better, and tougher, benchmark.
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Michael Stothard, Paris correspondent, talks to French finance minister Michel Sapin about the problems facing the country, the strong euro and what the government’s reforms — the so-called responsibility pact — hope to achieve.
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The cost of Fed liquidity is supposed to influence rates across the board, including those charged to the non-bank sector. However, since the crisis, private collateral rates have not always followed suit. The Fed Reverse Repo facility aims to change that. The FT’s Izabella Kaminska explains how it works.
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