Hints and tips:
...“Jon’s secret is that everyone loves Jon and Jon loves everyone,” Klein said. Nearly everyone....
...A former high-ranking FBI agent who agreed to work as a covert investigator for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has been sentenced in New York to more than four years in prison, after pleading guilty in...
...This month the MSS accused Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, of using a foreign consultant to spy on China....
...And then Yulia’s at risk herself, because Putin’s secret services will work directly against her. They will threaten her and try to break and demoralise her.”...
...And here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Congress: Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell’s semi-annual testimony to the House financial services committee will be closely followed for hints on the potential...
...But The Night Agent? Really?...
...It added that a survey by its regional agents showed that pay settlements will fall to an average of 5.4 per cent this year, a figure that is still relatively high and only slightly below last year’s 6 per...
...Bond markets have swung dramatically in the past four trading days, recording their biggest daily moves in months after a surprisingly strong January jobs report and comments from Federal chair Jay Powell...
...Behind all this is a story of deposits, in particular the $4.2tn worth of “non-interest-bearing” deposits in the US banking system, according to the Federal Reserve....
...A survey by BoE regional agents showed that pay settlements will fall to an average of 5.4 per cent this year, a figure that is not far below last year’s 6 per cent....
...Data Mining: Tether’s Christmas naughty list Last month Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin, signed up the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Secret Service...
...So these include, you know, high-end estate agents....
...The previously unannounced talks come four months after the pair held a secret meeting in Vienna that was aimed at resurrecting high-level diplomacy....
...Only 1/4 of FT Alphaville takes a special interest in anything Norwegian, and probably even fewer readers....
...Here’s more on one of FTC chair Lina Khan’s biggest tests in her fight against Big Tech. 4....
...Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”...
...The “Global South” is a pernicious term that needs to be retired, writes Alan Beattie in his Trade Secrets newsletter (for Premium subscribers)....
...The unemployment rate rose slightly more than expected from 3.4 per cent to 3.7 per cent while wage growth edged down, albeit remaining at an elevated annual level of 4.3 per cent....
...My own forecasts would have the unemployment rate rising to around 4 per cent by the end of the year and getting up to 4.5 per cent by the end of next year....
...But beneath the boom in online betting is an underbelly of addiction of unknown proportions....
...The amount of investment will be roughly $2.5bn to $3bn, could go up to around $4.5bn to $5bn....
...Fed up with the 90/180-day rule, Robert Walker from Maidenhead in Berkshire was sitting in his four-bedroom penthouse apartment in the Nagüeles district of Marbella when an estate agent knocked on the door...
...Four months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Zelenska told a journalist: “None of us are OK.”...
...Those accepted make around $4.20 per 1,000 views; Shmee’s channel has more than 1bn. But most of all, Andrew just really likes cars....
...David Soucie, a former FAA safety inspector, said he had never witnessed a similar malfunction in four decades in aviation....
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