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...On a positive note, HSBC, which publishes results next Tuesday, today became the first of the UK’s big lenders to announce rate cuts on fixed-term mortgages in a rare sign of hope for homeowners facing a...
...And I think you could think of this as a knock against US stocks, right? What about the Mag Seven? What about how concentrated the stock market gains are with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google et al?...
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...The evidence we have suggests that as an inflation hedge bitcoin is useless (Smales, 2021), mostly useless (Conlon et al, 2021), randomly worse than useless (Matkovskyy and Jalan, 2020), or consistently...
...It hopes to build a further 3,000km of electric roads by 2045....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...Here is the performance of the KBW bank index, compared with the S&P 500: Banks lend money and then hope to get paid back. The latter part of their business has been doing great....
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...“If I think of the amount of pressure I’m under as a deposit taker and the care and attention I have to take when providing unsecured lending to younger people, it is staggering me that Klarna et al are...
...That he probably doesn't have any foreign assets, you know You mean there's not a bank account saying V Putin, the Kremlin. Yeah. But nonetheless, I suppose......
...It is slightly more realistic to hope that Facebook et al will be forced into more equitable revenue sharing with the media. Such platforms are a huge part of the problem....
...That would be “Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v Humphrey”, which says “the exchange rate from the date of domestic judgment should be used”....
...quarter into a rapid and complete V-shaped recovery.”...
...; and Al Gore, former US vice-president and chairman of Generation Investment Management....
....* Of course this begs another question: what happens to SASB, GRI et al? The Big Four leaders are too tactful to comment. But the direction of travel is clear....
...The DAPL ruling could deal a severe blow to its hopes of a fast output recovery....
...A report released this week by Deloitte provides hope. The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Service Providers (ie Spotify, Apple et al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...(LA Times) Fourth-quarter earnings season looms A trio of big banks kick off the fourth-quarter earnings season in the US on Tuesday....
...Wednesday’s development in the NMC vs Muddy Waters et al saga saw Krupa Global Investments, a Czech activist fund, say apropos of nothing that it holds positions equivalent to just over 0.4 per cent of the...
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
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