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...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed at record highs on Wednesday. Government bond prices rose as yields fell. Watching from the White House, Biden administration officials would have cheered, too....
...“The oil market is waiting,” said Daniel Yergin, author and vice-chair of S&P Global....
...(Amusingly, Cameron later tried to enlist CIC in a failed private equity venture after leaving office)....
...Global construction PMI data Results: Alfa-Laval Q4, Amgen Q4, BP Q4, Eli Lilly Q4, Ford Q4, H&R Block Q2, Gartner Q4, Infineon Technologies Q1, Linde Q4, Mitsubishi Q3, Nintendo Q3, Omnicom Q4, Prudential...
...Q4, Serco FY Friday Bank of England deputy governor for markets and banking David Ramsden speaks at the Deloitte Academy on the bank’s resolution regime EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P...
...Cameron overlooked them all when he chose a new defence secretary that year....
...Here is a chart of the S&P 500 against the two-year Treasury yield: At 2pm, the press release landed....
...Barack Obama appointed Cass Sunstein, co-author of the hit behavioural economics book Nudge, to his White House team. David Cameron set up a “Nudge Unit” within the UK Cabinet Office....
...US stock indices closed marginally lower, with the S&P 500 down 0.1 per cent. Concerns about a possible recession have grown with worse than expected inflation data this month....
...By coincidence, Monday is the 10th anniversary of former prime minister David Cameron’s speech on Europe in which he pledged he would renegotiate the UK’s relationship with the EU and offer a referendum...
...Review: The FT’s cinema critic Danny Leigh gave the new James Cameron film three stars. Read his full review....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...Yes, the S&P 500 has dipped into correction territory twice this year, with notable declines in tech stocks....
...The White House announced it would release 1mn barrels a day of oil from the US’s emergency reserves to alleviate inflation....
...The White House announced it would release 1mn barrels a day of oil from its emergency reserves to ease “painful” petrol prices. Oil prices fell on the news....
...The White House announced it would release 1mn barrels a day of oil from its s emergency reserves to ease “painful” petrol prices. Oil prices fell on the news....
...All flavours are 100 per cent natural, with highlights including Sicilian cassata, pistachio and olive oil. girottiparis.com P Romeo & Giulietta Artisan Gelateria, London A north London treasure, even...
...The S&P 500 ended a touch down and the Nasdaq was flat. The Treasury market kept its cool, too. The two-year bond yield had to rise (10 basis points or so) to match fed funds expectations....
...But the median performer in the Kaplan stock portfolio rose 6 per cent, less than the S&P 500, dragged down by losers such as Occidental Petroleum and Delta Air Lines....
...US equity markets weakened following Powell’s comments, with the benchmark S&P 500 falling 1.9 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declining 1.6 per cent for the day....
...The White House is also looking at the issue. Companies must also grapple with measures taken in China....
...As “China Shock” authors, economists David H Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H Hanson have found, the classic economic assumptions about labour market adjustment in response to trade and tech related job displacement...
...The S&P 500 had its largest drop since October, closing the day down 2.6 per cent. Treasuries, meanwhile, rallied....
...(FT) Lottery of life Once considered the go-to retirement scheme, tontines are now better known as storylines in popular TV shows such as M*A*S*H and The Simpsons....
...US equities closed lower in New York after struggling to find a direction for much of the session, with the large-cap S&P 500 shedding 0.7 per cent and losses in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite accelerating...
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