Hints and tips:
...Smart reads How not to face the music Johnson & Johnson’s use of the “Texas two-step” has cast a spotlight on the manoeuvre and how companies deploy it to cap personal injury claims....
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
...Sterling dropped 0.7 per cent against the dollar to $1.3665, its lowest level since early February....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...Markets Sterling reached $1.40 today, its highest level since 2018, as investors anticipated a strong economic recovery following the UK’s rapid vaccination campaign....
...Catalent has partnered with AstraZeneca to manufacture its vaccine in Anagni, Italy, and is currently planning a large expansion of its production lines to churn out Johnson & Johnson’s shot in Europe....
...Since it initiated a £200bn QE programme in March to buy up existing government bonds, the BoE has successfully halted a run on sterling and flight from the gilts market....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Conservatives hope leadership will confer maturity on Boris Johnson, as it did on Prince Hal in Henry V. Cynics think the UK’s new premier has more in common with the incorrigible Falstaff....
...Sterling pushed to its highest point against the dollar in a week on the news. Robert Shrimsley writes that there will be costs to Mr Johnson’s backing for his chief adviser rather than his chancellor....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p39)....
...Rob Johnson, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, talks about whether we are headed to a depression....
...Here’s how things are looking early on, with the wires putting a fairly mild knife-catching rally on European death tolls potentially slowing a bit and sterling weakening on Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation...
...Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, and Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s leader, will meet in Belfast on Monday....
...Boris Johnson’s allies admitted on Tuesday that any hopes the UK will strike a deal with Brussels at the meeting were effectively dead. Asian markets rallied overnight....
...Sterling is up about 3 per cent since parliament jammed the works of Boris Johnson’s no-deal Brexit machine. Crashing out of the EU could condemn the UK to insular irrelevance....
...An England v Bulgaria match brought racism in football to the fore. Star England player Raheem Sterling has long highlighted the problem, and what he perceives as the media’s role in fuelling it....
...Bookies attach a 93 per cent probability to Boris Johnson becoming prime minister this summer — and pundits blame that for sterling’s fall to its lowest level in two years....
...“My friends, I am not a communist,” said Boris Johnson....
...Congratulations USA!” Earlier in the week, he tweeted: “Another new Stock Market Record. Enjoy!”...
...We think a rational assessment of the state of the economy as the end of the year approaches will force Johnson to seek an extension. Anyway....
...Sterling has benefited from dollar weakness, but looks vulnerable to a fraught political backdrop as Boris Johnson steps closer to becoming the next prime minister, which in turn increases the likelihood...
...(FT) Pound plunges Sterling remained under selling pressure on Tuesday after reaching a two-and-a-half year low on fears of a no-deal Brexit....
...Sterling would crash (it was 1.50 to the USD before Sunderland reported on referendum night v 1.30 today, so surely we could survive a short-term move to 1.10?)....
..., the fall in sterling is so dangerous....
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