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...Here are yields and spreads on triple-B bonds, the lowest rung of investment grade. Triple-B yields are significantly higher because Treasury yields are higher....
...“One of the things the market is adjusting to is 8 per cent yields in double-B or single-B [ratings] land....
...To exploit this, water young plants freely until they are established, then water lightly and only when they begin to wilt....
...It was always going to come to this, but the EU-UK trade negotiations are now entering the danger zone stage where we get to find out who will wilt under the pressure of a looming “non-negotiated” exit....
...But, happily, this is still one aim (if not the only one) that the UK’s various political factions can agree on, without mentioning that dreaded “B” word. 10....
...“It’s nothing,” Fabienne says with an hauteur that would wilt the daisies. “My daughter and her little family.”...
...As for the US market, the impressive compression of risk premia for double B-rated paper leaves little room for improvement....
...Harald B....
...St Helena was chosen to house the former emperor after his defeat at Waterloo because it was (a) a British possession and (b) a byword for remoteness. Both these facts are still true....
...An autumn feed of bone- meal will keep the plant healthy but avoid encouraging excessive green growth, which again can be susceptible to peony wilt....
...BP was off 1.1 per cent to 459¼p and B shares of Royal Dutch Shell slipped 1.2 per cent to £15.86....
...But gains on the main US indices began wilt and the FTSE 100 sank again. The UK benchmark finally closed 60.2 points, or 1.1 per cent, lower at 5,545.6....
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