Hints and tips:
...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...
...The riskiest, most beat-up members of the group (KeyCorp, Comerica, Zions, Western Alliance et al) rose the most....
...The bank’s sports team have no time to rest on their laurels, however....
...Meanwhile, Egypt goes to the polls at the weekend with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi widely expected to win re-election despite an economic crisis including record inflation and foreign currency shortages...
...Shares in other banks considered to have some degree of asset-liability mismatch (Western Alliance, Zions et al) only saw their shares wobble a little bit yesterday....
...To put it more simply: Jiang et al argue there are $2.2tn in mark-to-market losses out there, and there is only $2.2tn in equity in the US banking system....
...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....
...Eurozone inflation rose for the first time in six months from 6.9 per cent to 7 per cent in April, complicating the picture for tomorrow’s European Central Bank decision on interest rates....
...Ganieva’s monthly bank statements showed a payment from “E Trust”, with no further identification of the sender....
...The addition of the “+” countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Mexico et al) to the cartel have increased its market share....
...And then he’s the chairman of First Abu Dhabi Bank. So one, it’s incredible the reach this one guy has....
...Crypto tokens are not securities any more than baseball cards or sports bets are. Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it....
...Luckily, efforts to ram crypto’s square peg into the round hole of the Securities Act of 1933 (et al) have proceeded slowly to date. But there is danger this mistaken project will accelerate now....
...One grandfather had been governor of the central bank, his signature appearing on Iraq’s banknotes. Aged nine, he watched his father Hareth flee Baghdad....
...It’s a big week everywhere for central banks....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...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....
...There is for sure a debate to be had about when the Federal Reserve et al should have pivoted their stance more forcefully to tackle inflationary pressures, and what they should and shouldn’t do now....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...At the first checkpoint I was interviewed by public security bureau policemen asking me ‘reason for travel’ and how much I was carrying. They were checking people’s baggage.”...
...Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation would bring the court the closest it has ever been to gender parity....
...Ten years was long enough to let dust settle and approved wild flowers dress the banks of the infinitely adaptable Bow Back Rivers....
...The Federal Reserve, it appears, is going to tighten with total predictability and imperceptible gentleness; inflation will be transient; Evergrande et al will not sink the Chinese economy; lions will lie...
...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......
...On becoming the Isis leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself the caliph in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq. Again, to lead all Muslims....
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