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...Wednesday is the Spring Budget, a prominent entry in the UK news diary and a classic piece of British political theatre for the rest of us....
...And finally Il ne s’agit pas de comprendre, il s’agit de croire....
...He built his career by spotting, ahead of others, that the then fringe 1970s business of trading mortgage bonds could explode in scale....
...Arabesque S-Ray, a sustainable research and financial metrics firm, found that companies with higher gender parity were substantially more likely to disclose greenhouse gas emissions data....
...The S&P 500 has rallied nearly 6 per cent in January. Barring a late-day pullback in Wednesday’s trading session, that would mark the best run since a 6.6 per cent rally in March 2016....
...” about its $6bn trading losses....
...Of course the issues around the Libor trading scandal, excessive remuneration, tax avoidance and the rest were complex and varied....
...But its chagrin was clear from an October trading statement....
...The big question is whether the sliding housing market sparks “broad based weakness across the economy and that remains to be seen,’’ he said....
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