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...Waitrose is only slightly ahead of M&S in the grocery market, with a 3.6 per cent market share this month versus the latter’s 3.4 per cent, according to data provider NIQ....
...West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, rose 2.6 per cent....
...Chevron’s fell from $6.4bn to $2.3bn....
...A: TKO This British CEO has a fleet of private aircraft with the following tailcodes: M-OVIE, M-USIC, M-ISTY, M-INTY and M-CHEM. Who is he?...
...chief investment officer of F/m....
...Third, paragraph 12(6)(b) specifies a maximum level of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a chemical formed over time and much more quickly if the honey is heated....
...At a price-to-book ratio of just 2, the Russell 2000 is currently cheaper than the 10-year average of 2.2, and the 40-year average of 2.1, Goldman Sachs notes....
...The “M” is for munitions; on impact it explodes in a ball of flames....
...But without a residential crisis and assuming consumption growth stays around 2 per cent, you’d have to really crush business spending to get a recession. I’m pretty sanguine about growth....
...The shift is likely to come as a relief to the many investors holding forms of the so-called “60/40” portfolio, which allocates 60 per cent to stocks and 40 per cent to bonds and is designed to lower risk...
...P-I-M-F-A. Claer Barrett Write this down, people. Moira O’Neill They show you what wealth managers in the City, what types of asset allocations they’re doing for their client....
...At Goldman Sachs, Brian Haufrect, co-head of M&A in the Americas, is a seasoned adviser to energy groups including Occidental Petroleum, ConocoPhillips and Shell....
...Exhibit B was the shift in the banking system from being a home for low-risk, highly regulated quasi-utilities — a product of the troubled 1930s — to an adventure playground in which bankers’ insatiable...
...The Fed has a lot of capacity to bring rates down here. If they cut by 250bp, that brings the fed funds rate down to 2.75-3 per cent. They have told us that the neutral rate is about 2.5 per cent....
...Having cut output by 2mn barrels a day in October 2022, equivalent to 2 per cent of global consumption, Saudi Arabia has led a succession of cuts in 2023....
...This is just a coincidence, though if Jay Powell brings inflation all the way back to 2 per cent without causing a recession there may be talk of canonisation....
...about a series of large deals, including a $2.2bn investment by the private equity group into insurer AIG....
...Chart of the day For the number of female CEOs in the US and UK to increase, according to data analysed by the Financial Times, there must be a significant shift in recruitment practices....
...As you say, the shift to openness is good: back in the 90s, PMS, and women’s reproductive health overall, was a taboo topic....
...In recent years, the capital’s salad offerings have exploded and this is matched by a public shift on healthy eating: a 2022 McKinsey study found that 38 per cent of UK consumers claim to eat significantly...
...So, if we reason by analogy, if you want to run a marathon, yes, you want to get to a point where you can run 26.2 miles in one go....
...“Investors have always worried about government debt and it’s never been a problem, but this time it feels like it’s for real,” said Jim Leaviss, chief investment officer of public fixed income at M&G Investments...
...It’s the latest in a number of complex transactions used to expand and shift debt around the Issas’ petrol stations group turned retail empire. (See: how they bought a £6.8bn company for just £200mn.)...
...Well, an update on ‘general and administrative’ costs from February this year mentions: “$2.2 million of relocation costs for our new Chief Executive Officer”....
...You might be able to log off, put your child to bed, and log back on . . . But I’m not sure it’s healthy to be working every night til 2am to meet the demands of the job.”...
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