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...Keynote speakers include Bo Becker, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Juliane Begenau, associate professor of finance at Stanford University....
...P&W’s announcement in July that more than a thousand engines would need to be removed from Airbus aircraft and inspected has forced a number of airlines — including Spirit Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Hawaiian...
...To meet them, Becker would ultimately be forced to unload $21bn worth of bonds at a loss, and launch a $2.25bn sale of SVB’s own shares....
...O Over-rule When an umpire reverses a call by a line judge, aka how umpires prove they’re awake. P Passing shots Things of beauty that have more or less killed off serve-and-volley tactics....
...He refers to a paper from economists at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago that looked at mobile phone records of more than 2m US businesses, and concludes lockdowns were only responsible...
...Delta chief executive Ed Bastian placed the burn rate at $50m a day, and S&P cut his company’s credit rating to junk on Tuesday....
...The last time the S&P started a year this strongly was in 1987. We tried to set out the reasons for this rally here....
...“More than 5,000 flights are cancelled today and that will have an impact on the business,” said Helane Becker, analyst at Cowen. “A lot of business trips were cancelled....
...He is also the president of the American Economic Association, a role held in the past by such luminaries as Milton Friedman, JK Galbraith, Gary Becker and Amartya Sen....
...Animals, by Ingela P Arrhenius, Walker Books, RRP£15 Picture books don’t come much bigger....
...Barclays notes that tech now accounts for almost 20 per cent of the S&P LSTA Loan Index, double its share of 10 years ago. It looks likely to be getting bigger still....
...Southwest Airlines was the biggest decliner on the S&P 500 on Tuesday after the carrier lowered its outlook for a fourth-quarter revenue metric....
...Helane Becker, an analyst with Cowen & Company, said the airline appeared to be retiring older aircraft at a faster pace, reducing its mainline fleet....
...Becker, an analyst at Cowen & Co....
...Likewise, the broader S&P 500 struggled to find a footing as the first-quarter earnings season began....
...Subsequently, the pace recovered relative to market capitalisation in the US — but not in Europe, where buybacks are only about a third as high, according to S&P Capital IQ. Will that change?...
...The guidance implies that passenger revenue would rise about 1 per cent, Helane Becker, an analyst at Cowen & Co, said....
...“We are encouraged by recent comments about a stronger year-on-year peak shipping season and improving International Priority volumes,” Ms Becker added....
...The S&P 500 extended a strong recent run to stand up 3.9 per cent on the week, on track for its best weekly performance since January 2013....
...(Economist) The strip club sociologist Howie Becker’s understanding of musical improvisation as a series of riffs and his experience of playing piano in strip joints helped form his theories of social performance...
...To repurchase the same amount as a year earlier, companies would need to spend 30 per cent more, and the fourth-quarter data show a 31 per cent increase, says Howard Silverblatt, index analyst at S&P Dow...
...The S&P 500 rose 0.1 per cent to 1,682.50, eking out an eighth day of gains (Bloomberg)....
...Are you a metalhead? Have you heard of Jason Becker?...
...A new NBER working paper — by Bo Becker of Harvard Business School and Todd Milbourn from Washington University — asks just how increased competition affects the ratings industry?...
...Mr Becker said the US volatility products (the iPath S&P 500 Vix short-term futures ETN and the iPath S&P 500 Vix mid-term futures ETN) had been “remarkably successful” with investors since their launch...
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