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...But other analysts were more sceptical, with David Webb, a corporate governance campaigner in Hong Kong, arguing that the move was “extremely damaging to the markets’ credibility”....
...david.pilling@ft.com...
...So says David Allum, a pilot for Ryanair, one of the volunteers at Ukip’s offices in the centre of Clacton-on-Sea....
...The market continues to show “an infantile foreign-exchange obsession”, says Jonathan Allum, a strategist at SMBC Nikko in London....
...Jonathan Allum, an equity analyst at Mizuho, says having a functional government is not everything. Belgium has been far from the worst-performing equity market this year....
...David Miles, who became chief executive last November, said 2010 had been a “watershed year” for the group....
...David Brockton, analyst, said that EDF Energy – Spice’s largest client and which accounts for about 20 per cent of group revenue – has all its contracts due for renewal in December....
...David Ricketts is a reporter on Ignites Europe, a Financial Times publication, where this article first appeared...
...As noted on Wednesday, these usually dull and often ignored instruments have come out dancing — largely due to a surge of shorting interest touched off by Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, who told a New...
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...Mr Allum added that other economies, in particular the US, were suffering similar shocks to those that led the BoJ to retreat to zero in the late 1990s....
...Mr Allum disagrees, saying wherever the initial push comes from, rising prices should feed through into second-order effects....
...Jonathan Allum of KBC Financial Products said production had borne up well largely as a result of continued robust export markets in Asia, the Middle East, eastern and central Europe....
...Jonathan Allum of KBC Financial Products, who is more confident that Japan’s economy is weathering the international storm, said production was bearing up well....
...If the yen appreciated further against the euro it could damage exports to Europe, Mr Allum said....
...In normal Japanese cycles, says Jonathan Allum at KBC Financial Products, the performance of small business closely tracks that of large companies....
...Jonathan Allum, strategist at KBC Financial Products, said that, unlike in previous growth periods, where profits at smaller companies closely tracked their larger counterparts, this recovery had been characterised...
...Jonathan Allum, strategist at KBC Financial Products, said historically there had often been a correlation between a strong yen and a rising stock market, though that relationship had recently broken down...
...As Jonathan Allum and Kerrin Howard of KBC Financial Products say in their weekly newsletter, The Blah!...
...Mr Allum says corporate Japan has made progress largely on its own terms, with some of the most stubbornly “Japanese” companies being the most successful....
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