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...Anyone who is interested in how precisely that would work should read this fascinating discussion between Ezra Klein and Elaine Kamarck....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Enjoy the rest of your week, Elaine MooreDeputy head of Lex...
...elaine.moore@ft.com...
...If an attraction is not perfect when it opens, he says, he will shut it down and fix it: “If it’s a B, you don’t keep it, because if something’s a B, that B will quickly become a C in a couple of years.”...
...Miller, Guernsey; Mr H Lime, Suffolk, England; Maxine Broadbent, Derbyshire, England Polymath 1,056: B Wardhaugh, Manchester, England Crossword 13,365: Michael Eve, Rye, England; Christopher Barrat, London...
...Breakthrough Starshot’ announcement at One World Observatory in New York in 2016 Letter in response to this article: As a physician, I wonder whether Hawking had polio rather than ALS / From Christopher B...
...It’s all the way down to low triple-B.”...
...Reporting by Michael Mackenzie, Elaine Moore, Thomas Hale, Dan McCrum and Eric Platt...
...The concerns stem from President Trump’s criticism of the H1-B visa programme which enables US employers to hire talented migrants....
...“Any increase in government debt we see as a negative development,” said Ed Parker, head of Emea sovereign ratings at Fitch, which rates Italy at triple B+, two notches above junk....
...Additional reporting by Elaine Moore...
...S&P has cut Mozambique’s long-term, foreign currency credit rating from B- to CC....
...Investors continued to penalise Portugal’s government bonds on Friday despite an agreement by the new Socialist government to draw up “Plan B” deficit cuts to ensure its “anti-austerity” budget complies...
...As a Plan B, Costa Rica is hoping for a $1bn loan from the Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank....
...Nigeria is rated BB minus by Fitch Ratings and B plus by S&P, below investment grade. Its finances have come under acute pressure as oil prices have dropped....
...While S&P issued a rating downgrade from B- to CC, one notch above default status....
...In September, global credit rating agency S&P lifted its long-term rating on Cyprus one notch from B plus to double B minus, a decision that the agency said reflected economic and financial stability from...
...“Our intention is for trucks to move from A to B without a human in the vehicle,” Seltz-Axmacher explains....
...In light of the economic deterioration, rating agency Standard & Poor’s has slashed its long-term rating for the country from B+ to B in July, citing the increasingly strained fiscal situation and constraints...
...With additional reporting by Elaine Moore in London...
...Last week Standard & Poor’s lowered its rating for the country to B minus while keeping it on negative watch and Moody’s indicated the possibility of a downgrade by placing Greece on a negative rating watch...
...sale of new benchmark 10-year dollar-denominated debt has been marketed with a yield of 5.125 per cent and comes a few days after global credit rating agency Fitch upgraded Vietnam’s credit rating from ‘B+...
...Standard & Poor’s, one of the world’s largest credit rating agencies, has found that the average rating in Africa has fallen from just above BB- in 2009 to almost B+, indicating a greater chance that adverse...
...The difference, or “spread”, between yields on bonds issued by Spanish and Italian triple-B rated companies over ultra-safe German Bunds has fallen below the “spread” between triple-B rated US corporate...
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