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...But four economists at Vanguard — Joseph Davis, Ryan Zalla, Joana Rocha and Josh Hirt — argue in a recent paper that the neutral rate may be closer to 2 per cent....
...(Bloomberg) Texas hold ’em The secretive real estate mogul Sun Guangxin has bought up 140,000 acres of Texas land where he plans to build a wind farm....
...As Gillian Tett explains in The Silo Effect, the silo that produced the PlayStation had almost nothing to do with the silo that produced portable CD players....
...Other terms censored on Weibo include “life-long rule”, “long live the emperor” and the title of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Animal Farm....
...Mick Davis, the former boss of Xstrata, looked set to the get the job, until a group of big shareholders blocked his appointment....
...“The President has been clear that Nafta has been a disaster for many Americans, and achieving his objectives requires substantial change,” said Emily Davis, spokeswoman for the US Trade Representative’s...
...These were halcyon days for the business, thanks to surging sales of the new, “indestructible” CD format. Global sales that year approached a billion units....
...In a press call this morning, Mr Lewis said Tesco’s new Farm Brands range had sold well....
...Now I was cast as lady-in-waiting when he partnered Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.”...
...Earnings reports include Kraft Heinz, Time Inc., News Corp, Walt Disney and Weight Watchers....
...Intraday – Europe to slide, US non-farm payrolls In the US, the non-farm payrolls report due for release at 1.30pm could seal the deal on whether the Federal Reserve this year increases official borrowing...
...Manufacturing PMI; est. 51.3 (prior 51.5) It’s a big week for economic data, culminating in US non-farm payrolls on Friday. There’s a roundup at ft.com/weekahead ....
...So much so that on one occasion a tuk-tuk driver in Mumbai asked me to pay for my ride with a Nokia-branded CD that he saw in my bag, which he immediately glued to the inside of his colourfully decorated...
...Forecasts are for a 230,000 rise in total non-farm payrolls and a 0.1 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate to 5.4 per cent....
...(WSJ) It’s a big day for US jobs Non-farm payroll data are out and economists are expecting a 245,000 increase in jobs to follow from the 295,000 increase in February....
...(FT) US jobs Analysts expect the US non-farm payrolls report to show a net gain of 234,000 positions in January and for the unemployment rate to hold at 5.6 per cent....
...Simon Davis, a partner at Clifford Chance, will examine why the FCA decided to brief a solitary Telegraph journalist about a potentially market-moving review of life policies, who decided on the strategy...
...(Reuters) “The private equity owners of Kronos Inc have rejected bids that valued the human resources software company at more than $4.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, leaving in...
...The CD revolution was “a little dirty”, says Strickler....
...The company has asked shareholders in five companies – Jardine Matheson, Jardine Strategic, Hong Kong Land, Dairy Farm International and Mandarin Oriental – to vote next month to approve a downgrade of its...
...The rebellion receives masterly treatment from Walker, a history professor at the University of California, Davis....
...The US will publish third-quarter gross domestic product numbers on Thursday, and the delayed October non-farm payrolls report on Friday....
...US: Non-farm payrolls....
...ICE) up +0.19 at 107.89 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.40 at 105.43 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +7.30 at 1,320 Copper (Comex) up +0.02 at 3.14 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.59% UK 2.37% Germany 1.67% CDS...
...Non-farm payrolls data are forecast to show the world’s biggest economy added 185,000 jobs in November....
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