Hints and tips:
...A further €1bn of lending will be provided by banks without a backstop....
...An excellent blue herbaceous Clematis heracleifolia Cassandra is one I have copied at home, and so is pearly pink Salvia Peter Vidgeon, a lovely tone in pots and summer beds....
...The Bank of Japan tried in the early 1990s and the European Central Bank in 2011. Both failed....
...Sure, the valuations of some US tech stocks were as silly as any Tokyo bank in 1989....
...His years playing the role of Cassandra had been vindicated. There was little comfort in being proven right. Running H2O’s funds had always been a high-wire act....
...Cassandra Seier, head of international capital markets at the New York Stock Exchange, says the NYSE undertakes a lot of outreach. “We have members located on the ground in various regions,” she says....
...For Cassandra Metcalfe, a 38-year-old restaurant manager in Hove whose electricity bill jumped from £25 to £110 a month, it has meant changing her personal living arrangements....
...Roubini doubts that our current crop of central bank governors are up to the challenge....
...“I don’t want to be a Cassandra but in gene therapy, we have prior experience, follow up data over a long time. Adverse events at the level of the genome don’t come up instantly,” he said....
...What will happen when central bankers, “the only game in town” (to quote another Cassandra of easy money, Mohamed El-Erian), finally, by choice or by force, pull the plug? Nothing good....
...Ours is the great age of government interventionism — from corporate bailouts to extraordinary levels of debt-fuelled fiscal spending and central bank market manipulations....
...We needn’t have worried as the Swiss stepped in three times over,” says Cassandra Levene, a sales executive at estate agent Alpine Homes in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, which is popular for its upmarket...
...The Cassandras were partly right: in early March, the market for corporate bonds did indeed freeze....
...Will coronavirus vindicate the Cassandras where bank meltdowns failed? At first blush, the state of play in corporate Britain suggests not....
...While such dour forecasts are sometimes dismissed as Cassandra-like — a reference to the soothsayer of Greek mythology — Mr Sheets noted that Cassandra’s prophesies were actually accurate....
...Well, those Cassandras will be feeling pretty pleased with their predictive powers today because . . ....
...Indeed, not a day goes by without Cassandras calling for the imminent collapse of China under a mountain of debt, or the break-up of the eurozone or America’s corporate balance sheets buckling under years...
...scale is promised by David Enrich’s book Dark Towers (HarperCollins RRP£20/$29.99, February), which is heralded as an engaging account of US president Donald Trump and his past dealings with Deutsche Bank...
...The Bank of England is facing the novelty of its price forecasts coming true, although this has not discouraged governor Mark Carney from leading the Cassandra chorus....
...And at the risk of being a Cassandra, I wonder if they aren’t just as oblivious to what is happening today with the US and China....
...Now, the New York Times would have you believe that there is another Cassandra on the scene: Tim Lee....
...The voices of professional optimists are countered by warnings from Cassandras made uncomfortable by the exponential rise of cryptocurrencies....
...The European Central Bank is single-handedly carrying the euro....
...Investors would be wise to ignore the growing chorus of Cassandra cries and look through the noise to the fundamentals....
...Debt priority The Italian central bank chief wants the eurozone to sort out its bad debt problem before making big leaps on banking union....
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