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...Last week, the state department announced measures against a handful of additional Israeli nationals, including Ben Zion Gopstein, a prominent settler activist and close political associate of Ben-Gvir....
...radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....
...Analysts said some banks could lift their guidance when they report first-quarter results beginning this week....
...The Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank and Bank of Canada meet to set rates this week, but are unlikely to change course — ECB president Christine Lagarde suggested at Davos last week that the first...
...Huntington National Bank, the 26th largest in the US, had the biggest percentage drop in uninsured deposits after its restatement, falling nearly 40 per cent to just over $50bn, according to S&P, which calculated...
...In 2016, Estonia’s national bank issued coins with Keres’s name and portrait to commemorate his centenary. Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win....
...In 1972, a muddy paddy field in Penang became the first production facility outside the US for Intel....
...In London, the Bank of England outlined a new geopolitical stress test for banks, in which bond yields rise sharply....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...This is the first time they will form an exhibition in London....
...On his return to Ghana in 1969, Larbi joined the department of architecture at KNUST and went on to design Kumasi’s National Cultural Center and the Kumasi head office of the Bank of Ghana....
...The move has been described as “potentially transformational” as it will be the first time that the government has provided funds for national teams....
...that performed the very worst when Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic failed....
...The Bank of England Museum, for example, is pleasant enough — spacious, elegant, free to enter — but its subject is really the Bank of England itself....
...Whatever the pressures and whatever the politics, [political content removed] this government, working with the Bank of England, will always put sound money first....
...Troubled regional lender First Republic Bank swung between losses and gains before ending the day down 1.4 per cent....
...That came a day after the Swiss National Bank said it would step in to offer liquidity support to lender Credit Suisse, whose shares rose by a fifth in Zurich....
...Hoarding dollars — the proverbial hiding cash under the mattress — is a national pastime....
...Shares in US regional banks made a modest recovery when New York opened. First Republic, PacWest, Western Alliance, Zions Bancorp and UMB Financial were among them....
...Regional banks, national importance All of this matters because regional banks have done a larger share of US lending in recent decades....
...Lutyens’ Midland Bank was one of the first to go....
...So the first thing I learned really in my first two years was these are the best paid economists in the world....
...Such largesse would certainly come in handy, given that — according to ING bank — Hungary’s real gross domestic product has been shrinking since mid-2022....
...China last year had its first population decline in 61 years....
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
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