Hints and tips:
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...The Bank of England is under pressure to announce a hefty rise in rates tomorrow, while European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has also stressed the need for swift increases....
...That he probably doesn't have any foreign assets, you know You mean there's not a bank account saying V Putin, the Kremlin. Yeah. But nonetheless, I suppose......
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...That would be “Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v Humphrey”, which says “the exchange rate from the date of domestic judgment should be used”....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...It is against this background that Hopp et al have raised their heads above the parapet....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(LA Times) Fourth-quarter earnings season looms A trio of big banks kick off the fourth-quarter earnings season in the US on Tuesday....
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...president urged the Arkansas native to run for governor of the southern state....
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
...(Al Jazeera) MAGA v MOPGA French president Emmanuel Macron appears to be goading US leader Donald Trump....
...Since his move from running the Asian insurer AIA to become the UK-listed bank’s first external chairman in October, he has enjoyed a great run of luck, writes Martin Arnold....
...In 2011 — by then Altrad generated €490m in revenues — the state-owned investor Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations bought an 11 per cent stake....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...There are domestic media reports that the central bank will start pilot programs to test a removal of this limit in a few cities....
...He said this even after Fox News had retracted a report that Birmingham (England, not Alabama) was a city inhabited totally by Muslims. (Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...Which is why Buchheit et al were looking at the bond — to generate strategies for Cyprus to squash holdouts if it ever planned a sovereign debt restructuring....
...paying NML et al, and without the stay in place....
...It is a long way from Nelson, in the northwest of England, to the City of London. But Matt Riley travels fast....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...This compares with 10%-20% for state-owned and city/rural banks.” Stephen Green et al at Standard Chartered fill out the picture a little more....
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