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...The Citi Economic Surprise index hit a two-year high yesterday, historically a positive omen for stock returns....
...JPMorgan, Citi and BofA and First Republic declined to comment....
...The regional banks reporting next week include Comerica, Western Alliance and Zions Bank, all of which had their share prices fall sharply during the turmoil in March....
...Soon after the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, founding signatories including Citi, BNP Paribas and Barclays took part in multibillion-dollar financing deals with companies including Saudi Aramco...
...Prior to its collapse, Citi had been charging Greensill as much as $15m a year to be trustee on the SCF notes, people familiar with the arrangement said....
...And time is running short for Sustainability Inc to prove it can actually create positive results. (Billy Nauman) A bit of a greencoin?...
...of Alliance Data Systems, a competitor to Citi in credit cards....
...ValueAct cannot take a seat on Citi’s board as long as it has a representative on the board of Alliance Data Systems, a Citi competitor but the fund has an “information sharing agreement” with the bank giving...
...ValueAct has a representative on the board of Alliance Data Systems, a consumer data and credit-card company that competes with Citi’s card business....
...“There’s little question that Mr Musk’s departure would likely cause harm to Tesla’s brand, stakeholder confidence and fundraising,” said analysts at Citi in a note....
...Nato leaders are gathering to inaugurate the alliance's new headquarters on the outskirts of the Belgian capital....
...HNA Group, the heavily leveraged Chinese conglomerate, has turned to private equity company Pacific Alliance Group for finance amid pressure to raise cash and cut its debt....
...“This is a wobble, but shouldn’t be much to worry about,” said analysts at Citi....
...Grab claims market leadership in the region, but faces intense competition from Uber, which is shifting resources from China after its alliance with Didi Chuxing, and Indonesia’s Go-Jek....
...Analysts at Citi are also wary, moving from bullish to neutral on both the rand and South African government bonds this week....
...Mental ill health costs UK employers an estimated £26bn a year, according to London’s City Mental Health Alliance....
...With Nissan and Renault sharing some manufacturing through their global alliance, the Japanese carmaker would have been able to move production of the Qashqai to Spain....
...Kiichi Murashima, an economist at Citi in Tokyo, said: “We cannot dismiss the possibility that negative rates dealt a significant blow to consumer sentiment, even though the actual loss of interest income...
...The province of Buenos Aires has already hired Citi, HSBC and JPMorgan to arrange a new bond sale, with meetings expected to begin in London this Friday....
...UBS acted as Walgreens’ adviser, while Citi acted for Rite Aid....
...The loan was syndicated by Citi, HSBC and the Bulgarian units of Société Générale and Unicredit, which will also arrange the first foreign bond issue this year....
...Economists at Citi have said that a 10,000 person protest would potentially force some companies to move to back-up offices, but that any disruption “would be brief”....
...Citi has already fired one person it identified as “directly involved in the fraud”.”...
...At Citi, Mr Weill had ceased to be chief executive in 2003 (though he remained chairman until 2006)....
...In a research note, Andrew Baum, an analyst with Citi, said Merck’s move followed “a difficult year marked by severe and ongoing pressures on the base business”....
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