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...Hedge funds have begun to circle, with Elliot taking a 5 per cent stake in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust a week after it announced a £1bn share buyback in an attempt to prop up its share price....
...“No one’s ever argued [what Kirschner is arguing] because everyone knows loans aren’t securities, and the market has developed on that basis,” says Elliot Ganz of the LSTA, a loan industry body....
...“Simon’s writing is so spot on — heavily political but with a small p. You see what feels like 50 years of austerity in the eyes and lives of these characters....
...Now the waterfront — which forms part of Liverpool Waters, Peel L&P’s £5bn, 30-year project to transform the city’s northern docks — is taking on a new life itself....
...The broad S&P 500 index added 1.6 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite gained 2.3 per cent ahead of those results from Alphabet and Microsoft....
...Fierce hedge fund Elliot has taken a stake. But this seems more like an endorsement than a criticism....
...Just across the road is Elliot’s Beach, where Ms Harris strolled as a child with her grandfather on fleeting visits to Chennai....
...Within China, factories are shut and the business ramifications are rippling across industries, commodities markets and corporate P&Ls. Much of the corporate fallout is explained by China’s reach....
...“If anything this crisis has outlined how important pharmaceutical companies are to the system, society and the patients,” a person familiar with Elliot’s thinking said....
...miranda.green@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Those left-behind boys are an untapped pool of talent / From Peter P Edwards, Statutory Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK...
...In October, Nixon oversaw the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, when he dismissed independent Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of attorney-general Elliot Richardson...
...As Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG Group, correctly suggested in July, a positive surprise on depressed earnings forecasts might “support a push by the S&P 500 above the lofty 3000-mark”....
...Analysts expect half that, according to S&P Capital. But net debt has risen relative to earnings. That increases the pressure on Mr Kerkhoff to exit struggling businesses....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 ended 1.6 per cent stronger at 2,681, its best close since December 6, after rising as high as 2,690.44....
...“While it means she remains in place, it is clear that her authority has suffered a blow,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
...Westpac senior economist Elliot Clarke said the bank’s view was that neutral was closer to 2.5 per cent than 3 per cent....
...“It is clear that the US markets hold the key for the direction of indices over the next few weeks,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
...“Last week’s outbreak of fear is receding, although not as quickly as it arrived,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
...“The Turkish crisis rumbles on, but it appears to have provided an excuse for the bargain hunters to warm up their buying programmes,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
...S&P 500 at year-end: 2,950. James Elliot, CIO for multi-asset solutions, JPMorgan Asset Management What should investors expect?...
...Shares in Hyundai Motor were up 2.6 per cent in Seoul after local media reported activist investor group Elliot had requested the South Korean automotive company to increase dividends....
...“Italy is apparently off the list of concerns now that the League has backpedalled on its criticism of the euro,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
...“Investors remain on high alert for any sign that this weekend’s G7 meeting will develop into an acrimonious slanging match,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
...“The world is now on notice for US, and potentially allied, military strikes in Syria,” said Chris Beauchamp, analyst at IG....
...“Mr Draghi stuck to his view that continued [policy] accommodation was necessary, and this was enough to catch a few overeager euro bulls on the hop,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG....
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