Hints and tips:
...Dwayne Lysaght, JPMorgan Chase’s co-head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said: “It’s hard to see any one big driver for a slew of upcoming M&A....
...What if someone created a deepfake of Donald Trump declaring war on China? In the following years, such fears seemed overblown....
...Hardman’s book puts The Crown TV series firmly in its place, showing Her Majesty still relishing the job even during the pandemic....
...WWE stages theatrical battles of a kind that brought fame to Hulk Hogan and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, now a Hollywood star....
...He had it at dinner with Dwayne Johnson in New York right before lockdown, and it was so good that he insisted The Rock cut him in as an investor....
...Lee Hardman, a currency analyst at MUFG, said rising US yields were “triggering a temporary shake out of elevated short US dollar positions”, which had increased significantly over the past month....
...Microsoft rose 5.6 per cent as President Donald Trump dropped his opposition to the software group’s mooted takeover of the US arm of Chinese social media group TikTok....
...The ejection of Donald Trump features. As does more robust healthcare. I have middling instincts on which of these will happen. But we risk forgetting the good that has already come of it....
...US President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Monday that he saw “light at the end of the tunnel”, while New York reported its first daily drop in new cases on Sunday since the crisis began....
...President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would consider striking an “interim deal” with China, days after agreeing to push back an increase in existing tariffs on $250bn worth of Chinese goods....
...That followed a tweet by President Donald Trump over the weekend, in which he said, “We are doing very well with China, and talking!” referring to discussions on trade....
...“It will be difficult to keep markets calm without further progress in trade talks in the coming months,” said Lee Hardman, a currency analyst at MUFG Research....
...Between 1980 and 1990 Trump spoke to some reporters pretending to be a “John Barron — spokesman for Donald Trump”....
...That optimism remains largely unrewarded, with news of a delay to a trade summit between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping adding to the unease....
...If Republicans were to hold both chambers of Congress, that would provide a boost to President Donald Trump’s agenda and in particular leave the prospect of further tax cuts open....
...The “hardman of the left” has a strikingly weak handshake. We head out to eat. McDonnell lives in one of the poorest wards in Hayes....
...Mrs May was due to wrap the day-long whistle-stop tour in Brussels with Mr Juncker and Donald Tusk, the European Council president....
...As markets weighed up the prospects for future US interest rate rises, the focus also turned back to President Donald Trump’s G20 meeting with President Xi Jinping of China....
...Lee Hardman, currency analyst at MUFG, said the move higher in US yields tracked “increasing confidence” that the Fed would be able to increase interest rates above 3 per cent in the coming years....
...“The BoJ has been successful in announcing tweaks to make their monetary easing more sustainable without creating the immediate impression that it will also tighten policy,” said Lee Hardman, analyst at...
...Lee Hardman, a strategist at MUFG, said Mr Mnuchin’s comments “helped ease heightened concerns over a trade war between the US and China”....
...“Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser told us it was going to be ‘big’ and it’s fair to say that analysts were projecting some exciting figures,” said Rob Hodgson at GWM Investment Management....
...touches 5-month low Euro hit as Draghi reiterates dovish message Overview Escalating trade tensions between Washington and Beijing made for a “risk-off” session across global markets after US President Donald...
...Mr Hardman added: “The UK interest rate market has already started to price in a higher probability of more rate hikes from the BoE....
...Back in equities, the S&P 500 came off its lowest levels of the day — with observers noting reports that Rod Rosenstein, the US deputy attorney-general, had told President Donald Trump he was not a target...
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