Martin Hutchinson
Martin Hutchinson covers emerging markets and economic policy, drawing on 25 years of experience as an international merchant banker. He ran derivatives platforms for two European banks, before serving as director of a Spanish venture capital company, advisor to the Korean conglomerate Sunkyong and chairman of a US modular building company. In Zagreb he established the Croatian debt capital markets and set up the corporate finance operations of Privredna Banka Zagreb. Since 2000 he has been a financial journalist, and is the author of "Great Conservatives," a book on British political history. He has a first class Honours degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge and a Harvard MBA.
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- E-mail: martin.hutchinson@thomsonreuters.com
Recent stories
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U.S. mortgage vehicles need to come out of shadows
The Fed’s low interest rates are manna for mortgage REITs that borrow cheaply to buy home-loan bonds guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But the $265 bln sector relies on short-term repo borrowing - widely exposed as dangerous in the 2008 crisis. Something has to give.
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Obama's job creation hopes look fragile
The U.S. president can at last say he has overseen increased employment in the private sector. But the slowing pace of jobs growth and declining labor force participation could make for a tough sell in November’s elections. Obama will be hoping it’s a soft patch.
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Investors risk missing emerging market sweet spot
As developing nations mature, investors will want to harness consumers’ economic power. But the widely followed developing-market equity indexes are dominated by big beasts of finance and resources. The juiciest consumer-led returns may come via sector bets and smaller companies.
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U.S. Treasury starts thinking like a company
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U.S. GDP shows profit-investment disconnect
- Fed's rising growth, falling inflation are wishful
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Cuba unveils a Hugo Chavez hedge: economic reform
- Cambodia must solve two big problems for takeoff
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Review: Redeemers who led Latin America astray
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Global fiscal stability teeters on rates' edge
