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...“Idiosyncratic sounds like idiotic — and Silicon Valley was that,” says Lawrence J White, a finance professor at New York University who formerly worked in government during the savings and loan crisis....
...He was previously head of alternative investments distribution at Merrill Lynch....
...Letter in response to this column: Central banker chattiness is a flawed PR strategy / From Alex J Pollock, Senior Fellow, Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, US...
...No fewer than 53 acts take part in The Metallica Blacklist, from reggaeton singer J Balvin to jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington....
...dire,” said J Peter Pham, who served as Sahel envoy for the Trump administration....
...Nigeria and Ethiopia, Africa’s two most populous countries, as well as Chad, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya have vaccinated a combined 9.37m people, which includes supplies received...
...Claire Jones Trade links Chad P Bown, co-host of the Trade Talks podcast, and Thomas J Bollyky, have written an article for The World Economy about Covid-19 vaccine supply chains and how they emerged in...
...Letter in response to this article: American Proud Boys never did Latin at school / From Jeremiah J Sullivan, Seattle, WA, US...
...“Most of this doesn’t help the economy one bit — the H-1B, H-2B and J sectors are not the ones where unemployment rates are really high right now,” said a lawyer familiar with the talks, calling the proposal...
...Sally Beauty has a more defensive business model than many (J Crew does not sell personal protective equipment). Yet it is not immune to Covid-19. All its stores closed for a month....
...J Sainsbury reported results for the year to the start of March today, but unlike rival Tesco has deferred any decision on its dividend until later in the year because of concerns over coronavirus....
...Neiman Marcus, J Crew, Lord & Taylor, Brooks Brothers and JC Penney all filed for bankruptcy this year....
...● Barclays upgraded J Sainsbury to “overweight” from “equal weight” with an unchanged 250p target price....
...J. Scott Marcus at Bruegel looks at the use of personal data by various countries in the fight against coronavirus and the legal implications for Europe’s tough data protection laws....
...He will be succeeded by Chad Leat, effective immediately. Mr Drexler, who joined J....
...Lynch; J Sainsbury raised to “neutral” at Goldman; Spirax cut to “hold” at Peel Hunt; Surface Transforms raised to “buy” at Cantor; Wartsila cut to “hold” at HSBC....
...Sellside stories ● UBS upgraded J Sainsbury from “neutral” to “buy” with a 240p-a-share price target....
...Merrill Lynch says that if Chinese tourism alone were to fall by 50 per cent, it would cost the US industry $18bn. Already, top real estate markets in the US have felt the pain....
...Merrill Lynch also set a £42 target price on Whitbread and downgraded it to “underperform” from “neutral....
...This is a colourful interview/profile with the Man of Steel, just don’t say the j-word....
...UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury’s planned £7.3bn takeover of its Walmart-owned rival, Asda, was blocked, while a proposed tie-up of the train manufacturing arms of Germany’s Siemens and France’s Alstom...
...Tesco was the best performer among the big four with 1.7 per cent sales growth, while J Sainsbury was the laggard with sales down 1.2 per cent....
...Tesco sales fell 0.6 per cent on a slightly improved market share, while J Sainsbury’s sales fell 0.2 per cent with a 5 basis point share gain....
...Wednesday 15:00 BST What’s happening ● A relief rally lifted J Sainsbury to the top of the FTSE 100 gainers....
...Kevin Skelton, a senior adviser at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Australia, is retiring after 33 years, according to AFR. A replacement will be named in due course....
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