Hints and tips:
...The Federal Reserve, it appears, is going to tighten with total predictability and imperceptible gentleness; inflation will be transient; Evergrande et al will not sink the Chinese economy; lions will lie...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Perhaps understandably, Pearson CFO Coram Williams has resigned to take “a comparable role” at a continental European company. Deputy CFO Sally Johnson takes over. Here’s Shore Cap....
...And the share price of companies linked to Democrats suffered when a judicial ruling decided the tight 2000 election in favour of George W Bush....
...Florida’s vote-tallying fumbles were pivotal in the 2000 election, in which George W Bush beat Al Gore after the count went to the Supreme Court....
...But it doesn’t feel like a V or a W.” Three factors are critical to any recovery....
...The name of his game, already evident in all the earlier Whitewater et al investigations which he encouraged, was to delegitimise Mr Clinton....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...This year, Bloomberg’s long-time girlfriend, Diana Taylor, saw her appointment to become the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp scuttled at the last minute, apparently after tough lobbying by the...
...It is why Supreme Court confirmations (and there will be one this year, should the ailing chief justice, William Rehnquist, retire) have come to resemble poisonous election campaigns....
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