Hints and tips:
...He rushed up to Barclays’ corporate box, knocked on the door and asked Diamond to come out for a chat. Diamond agreed, and the two went for a walk....
...Later, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla had “diamond hands”, implying it would not be selling its bitcoin holdings....
...The COVAX advanced market commitment, or AMC, has raised $6.3bn and aims to distribute 2bn doses this year, with two-thirds of those subsidised for 92 lower income countries....
...Then again, it could be, as Sambur put it, like “finding a diamond in the rough”....
...Almost 6,000 Israelis died of Covid-19, and at the pandemic’s peak, one in three Israelis was out of work....
...“Companies should use any window they can to access liquidity at the moment,” said John McClain, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management....
...Jane Doe Inc, a victim advocacy group, applauded the effort, calling it “the type of forward-thinking and responsible behaviour needed by all companies to help ensure the safety of their employees and customers...
...A 10.5 year Netflix bond now yields 3.6 per cent, down from a peak of almost 5 per cent last October....
...Dignitaries and celebrities are among the passengers, but so is a jewel thief with designs on a valuable diamond necklace....
...An outbreak on board Carnival’s Diamond Princess ship in February was the first sign that the industry had a problem. Japanese authorities quarantined it off the coast of Yokohama....
...Smart reads Gen Y plays with ‘FIRE’ Millennials are blamed for killing a lot of things — department stores, diamonds, the housing market and even napkins....
...Ten years on, it oversees $6.5tn and has a market value of more than $74bn....
...Revenues for the quarter are expected to dip 6 per cent at Coke from a year ago, and to be flat at Pepsi, which also has a large food business. The profits of both companies are looking stronger....
...Lower petro-dollar revenues means that sovereign wealth funds will start first to sell long-dated US and EM bonds before moving on to global equities....
...Borrowing at 5, 6 or 7 per cent is a much cheaper cost of funding.”...
...Adjusted for one-off items, annual adjusted operating profit was $3.2bn for the year, 6 per cent higher than last year....
...The magazine rack inside the Petro truck stop is piled with brochures listing scores of openings for people with commercial driver’s licences....
...The S&P 500 has rallied nearly 6 per cent in January. Barring a late-day pullback in Wednesday’s trading session, that would mark the best run since a 6.6 per cent rally in March 2016....
...The world record for a pink diamond at auction was set in April 2016: the fancy vivid Pink Star weighed 59.6 carats and fetched $71.2m at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong....
...Private equity groups need to find a rough diamond or do something different, like break the company into pieces, or use one division to make acquisitions....
...Anglo American faded 2.3 per cent to £17.17 after the group’s De Beers unit raised $665m at its first diamond auction of 2018, down 9 per cent year on year....
...Broadcom said in a statement that it plans to nominate nine men and two women to Qualcomm’s board during its target’s annual meeting on March 6, 2018....
...On the China front, the OECD has cut its growth forecast to 6.3 per cent for 2019, and predicts a slowdown to a 30-year low of 6 per cent in 2020....
...“Expectations for high yield [returns] range from minus 2 to 6 per cent on the high end....
...Qualcomm’s annual general meeting is on March 6....
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