Hints and tips:
...P.S. And no, no frozen horse in this one (Michelle Mone’s horse may be barred from Grand National — The Times)...
...A GMB strike ballot of more than 15,000 ambulance workers across 11 trusts in England and Wales closes tomorrow....
...Douglas Yones, head of exchange traded products at NYSE, recalls a huge effort to ensure everything ran smoothly and to ensure participants were ready for the vast trading volume that would hit the markets...
...Among those obstacles is the decline in trust in democratic government, as revealed by the Edelman Trust Barometer....
...Douglas Lowe, Caledonian’s Chairman and Chief Executive, last month celebrated his 83rd birthday....
...The S&P 500 was down 1 per cent....
...However, Douglas Morton, head of Asia research at Northern Trust Capital Markets, believed the reclassification could be beneficial for stocks such as Alibaba and Tencent in two ways....
...was identified as an early winner in the imposition of the steel tariffs, yet that stock has underperformed the S&P 500.”...
...• Lord Abbett has named Douglas Sieg as managing partner, the top role at the $160bn New Jersey asset manager....
...Standard Life Aberdeen, the UK’s largest listed fund manager, is poised to name Douglas Flint as its new chairman, the FT reported. The former HSBC chair will succeed Gerry Grimstone....
...Jonathan Douglas, director of the UK’s National Literacy Trust, notes: “Boys’ underperformance in reading is not a new phenomenon. Often [it is wrongly] attributed to the women’s movement.”...
...500-listed real estate investment trust....
...Stuart Gulliver is the longest-serving CEO of a large UK bank and can be expected to step down in the next year or so, preceded perhaps by chairman Douglas Flint....
...Altering the mix Risk parity is a concept Mr Dalio developed in the early 1990s, when he first began to think of establishing a family trust....
...(BBC) It’s a big day for HSBC Group chairman Douglas Flint and chief executive Stuart Gulliver will be grilled by UK MPs over alleged tax-dodging by clients of HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent, helped by some encouraging earnings reports, after losing 2.7 per cent last week....
...“A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom,” Morgan used to say....
...The S&P 500 closed up 0.17 per cent at 1,318.86 (Reuters). The 10-year German Bund yield closed at 1.4 per cent, a record low....
...“Just because the Vix is low, it doesn’t mean people aren’t laying on hedges,” says Steve Davenport, head of equity risk management at Wilmington Trust....
...The S&P 500 added 1.2 per cent to 1,324.18 on Tuesday....
...Partnership Carmel Gahan (E – Lifetime Achievement) Gaia Earth Sciences Giga Communications Glen Dimplex Home Appliances Glencairn Crystal Studio Grainger and Worrall (I) Greenham Common Community Trust...
...Over the past five sessions the Bloomberg Mortgage Reit index has fallen 8.2 per cent, against a 2.7 per cent drop for the S&P 500 index. This represents the biggest weekly drop since March 2009....
...Douglas Peterson, the incoming president of Standard & Poor’s, has already had a turn in the spotlight....
...“My task,” he wrote,” has been to serve as the steward, not the proprietor, of extraordinary public trust.”...
...P&O Ferries, SeaFrance and DFDS, which are angry at their treatment by the port’s current management, will back their proposals....
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