Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...While US manufacturing employment shrank 26 per cent to 12.7m people over the two decades to 2019, warehousing employment grew 141 per cent to 1.2m, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics....
...And to develop on a couple of those points: Short-covering and the unwind of downside protection were the main forces behind the rally....
...[T]he UK economy is highly financialised, is a key intermediator in global financial markets and suffers from few natural protections: the UK has large twin deficits and low real yields....
...applied through the multi-year global financial crisis....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...In early drafts of the 2010 law, dealers were to be put under the supervision of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....
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...Those prices hit bottom in early 2003 and then rose at an annual average rate of 1.8 per cent until the peak in mid-2008....
...By 2009, the main worry was that falling consumer prices would exacerbate the financial crisis and recession....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
...reckons Sheng Laiyun of the National Bureau of Statistics....
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...With the apparent bull market of bonds over, what is the future of fixed-income and fixed-income firms? Will they keep move away from bonds and move more into FX/Derivatives/Preferred/et al?...
...Protection of the family - both the people and the idea - is paramount....
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