Hints and tips:
...But the weakness in general merchandise — Argos sales were down 4.2 per cent in the six weeks to January 6 — raised questions over whether it had been neglected, said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ...
...The Scala taught you that Jimmy Cagney was as punk as the Sex Pistols, and that Russ Meyer’s bosomy Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! needn’t bow to Bergman....
...On the economy, Kevin Hassett, Trump’s former chair of the council of economic advisers, and Russ Vought, the former budget director, are key figures in Trump’s current orbit — though he still speaks to...
...“It is not best practice to use just one partner . . . to pay your bills and meet your payrolls. But I am not advocating for atomising banking relationships,” he said....
...parade themselves in front of shareholders over things like expenses and jet usage — FT Alphaville’s eye has been caught by an idiosyncratic quirk of Domino’s executive expenses tab: the personal pizza bill...
...When the Treasury department sells bills, Wang reckons, the new issuance will push bill yields above the RRP’s yield....
...“That’s going to be a hard sell given the risk of a recession and how consumers have been cutting back on their spending as their monthly bills have shot up,” he added....
...BILL WOLSEY: Everybody knows here that if you appeal to the Nationalist side and the Unionist side, that's pretty much split 40-40....
...Bill Nighy, Vanessa Kirby, Dan Stevens and Helena Bonham Carter are among the many names to have lent their voices to the project....
...“I think it’s fair to say that this trend didn’t begin with Trump and it probably won’t end with him,” says Russ Schriefer, a Republican consultant who worked for Mr Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and...
...There are interesting flows in the US Treasury market that reminds Bill O’Donnell at Citi of the low-rate period during the financial crisis....
...JPMorgan, which has assessed the market impact of past outbreaks, highlights Russ’s point in this graph: In the interim Russ cautions: “The difficulty for investors is that it is extremely difficult to...
...Analysts had expected a further 2 per cent increase in dividend payments to £91.5bn, but Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said this was “starting to look optimistic”....
...Russ Mould at AJ Bell notes: “Fans of the stock will still argue that there is scope for upside, not least because the company is still a cash machine....
...Equity investors, therefore, should perhaps remember the campaign advice given to another presidential impeachee, Bill Clinton: “It’s the economy, stupid!”...
...Another issue raised by Bill O’Donnell and the Treasury team at Citi is whether there is sufficient demand for 20-year bonds, particularly as the first monthly 30-year bonds sold back in 2009 are now entering...
...Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, notes: “The relatively muted share price response likely reflects investors’ scepticism about the plan getting off the ground....
...“That’s how cash poor and badly run PDVSA is,” said Russ Dallen of boutique investment bank Caracas Capital, who first made the dispute public....
...A year ago, the 10-year yield was 100 basis points higher than the three-month bill. On Wednesday, the 10-year sits just 13bp below the short-term bill....
...The pessimism was heightened last week when yield of 10-year US government debt fell below that of three-month Treasury bills....
...Mr Trump eventually signed a funding bill with $1.4bn for the wall before declaring the national emergency. Lawmakers may this week vote to oppose the move....
...Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, notes that HSBC warned over possible bad debts in the UK and that this “will have a negative read-across to other UK banks as HSBC tends to adopt a fairly conservative...
...In the TV series Silicon Valley, fictional billionaire Russ Hanneman is obnoxiously proud to be in the “three comma club”. In tech’s real-life soap opera, bragging rights now require a fourth comma....
...Russ Mould, AJ Bell investment director, says: “There is an old market rule which says that when the individual stocks or sectors that took the broader market indices higher start to tire and roll over...
...“It is now open season on PDVSA,” said Russ Dallen of Caracas Capital, an investment bank, who follows Venezuela closely. “This will start an avalanche of legal actions.”...
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