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...But what’s the attitude towards bonds now in the investment community, and how could one gain exposure to bonds in one’s Isa? Timi Merriman-Johnson Yeah. So just to explain what bonds are....
...This is an audio transcript of Hot Money podcast Episode 1: Murder Brokers Miles JohnsonI’m Miles Johnson, and I’m an investigative journalist with the Financial Times....
...[Available for Premium subscribers] With his latest Al Capone act, Trump is testing the assumption that Americans don’t want a crook in the White House....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Oil and gas companies, accused by former US vice-president Al Gore of “capturing” UN institutions, are also wary of giving too much ground....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Or to offer another: officials from the United Arab Emirates will be giving briefings, trying to allay the furore around the appointment of Sultan al-Jaber — head of the national oil company — as president...
...When it came crashing down, so too did their violent reign, the FT’s Miles Johnson reports....
...Minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting are due at 2pm ET/7pm London time today and should reveal the reasoning behind the further quarter-point rise earlier this month....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Star manager Michael Hasenstab’s Templeton Global Bond fund was caught out by ill-timed bets and the firm haemorrhaged assets....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...Equity and bond markets as well as government buildings will be closed. EU meeting The EU’s foreign ministers will meet in Brussels to discuss the war in Ukraine....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...There was also Crockfords and Les Ambassadeurs, the casino in which Sean Connery first delivered the line “Bond, James Bond” while playing chemin de fer in Dr No....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Short-term UK government bonds sold off sharply on the news as traders lifted their expectations for Bank of England rate rises to more than two percentage points by May next year....
...UK troops were fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan following the September 11 terror attacks....
...Kuwait wealth fund KIA has appointed Hussain Al-Halabi to replace Saleh Al-Ateeqi as head of the investment authority’s London arm....
...For the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, she was filmed in a cameo with the actor Daniel Craig reprising his role as James Bond....
...It is valued at $5bn and has backing from former US vice-president Al Gore’s investment fund....
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