Hints and tips:
...We submitted our business plan to Ofwat as part of its price review process in October 2023 and will receive a draft determination from Ofwat in May/June 2024 and a final determination in December 2024.”...
...Adriana Kugler, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, said this month: “While interest rates rose rapidly, some feared that the cost of disinflation would be persistently elevated unemployment....
...One person close to the discussions said VCs were concerned that any agreement to cut fees could be seen as price-setting....
...One reason why is a big influx of foreign workers into the US, helping to contain wage growth and, ultimately, prices....
...“You’re not seeing anyone else cutting prices at the moment.” He said the levy rate for the next year was still being finalised but he expected the reduction “will be again, significant”....
...“The majority of our investments have occurred or will occur following the fall in prices last year, so overall the new environment is net positive for us as we are buying at lower prices,” he added....
...“We are progressing with a couple of managers to take advantage of market dislocations and/or depressed prices,” said Kenneth....
...And our colleague Josephine Cumbo has an interview with the outgoing chief investment officer at Calstrs....
...Pension scheme investors are looking to fortify their portfolios after they came under severe pressure in the gilt market crisis of 2022, when the price of UK government debt tumbled at unprecedented speed...
...The proposal, which was adopted by the board, will allow Calstrs to potentially borrow up to $30bn to help maintain liquidity without having to sell assets at fire sale prices....
...“There is still a risk that assets will have to be sold at low prices, to repay the borrowing, locking in losses.”...
...Value and price There is a price for the Australian pursuit of alternative investments — Australian workers typically pay higher pension investment fees than Brits....
...At an Oxfam panel in Washington last week, Adriana Abdenur, special economic adviser to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, called out the “mismatch” between “rich countries and regions now openly...
...Adriana Brenis, a research fellow at the University of Sussex’s UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) has delved into the data to scope out the scale of the problem....
...That gap is close to a historic high, suggesting that share prices are cheap or asset valuations far in excess of what could be achieved in a sale tomorrow....
...“This may be down to increased energy bills and food prices soaring, with pensioners feeling that they need more each month just to get by,” said Jon Greer, head of retirement policy at Quilter, a firm of...
...FTC chair Lina Khan is on a very successful media tour; she recently did a spot on CBS Sunday Morning about how companies can get “too big to care” using price-gouging and other techniques to gain profit...
...That created a spiral where forced sales of gilts sent prices tumbling further and yields climbing higher — and then required the pension funds to stump up yet more collateral....
...In the case of the Adriana shipwreck, Frontex did not receive authorisation from the Greek authorities....
...Reporting by: Emma Agyemang, Josephine Cumbo, Martha Muir, Arjun Neil Alim, Joshua Oliver, Rafe Uddin...
...Monetary policy: Federal Reserve board governors Christopher Waller and Adriana Kugler speak at public events today....
...Reporting by: Emma Agyemang, Josephine Cumbo, Mary McDougall, Rafe Uddin and Arjun Neil Alim...
...Also, February Nationwide House Price Index....
...“Food prices should fall, too, as lower commodity prices feed through to prices in the shops,” he added....
...The price of water needs to go up,” the person said....
International Edition