Hints and tips:
...Rivals H&M and Zara owner Inditex reported net profits of SKr8.7bn ($820mn) and €5.4bn ($5.8bn) respectively in their most recent fiscal years....
...“The Fed clearly doesn’t want to jinx its run of good luck by prematurely advertising any rate cuts,” said Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University....
...As luck would have it, a good cry has been an easy fix....
...Good luck to them,” said Hersham....
...A balloon filled with pure joy was flying over crypto land for a few weeks after a US district judge’s hearing the SEC’s Ripple case led the crypto faithful to declare victory over hated foe Gary Gensler...
...With the help of local carpenters Nick Simco and Jacob Habron, stonemason Gary Balman and his father Tony Short (a builder who specialised in historical homes), and 12 months of hard graft, Bonfield started...
...For Sands, they have also had very good luck on timing, whether that’s buying back stock, selling [their Las Vegas properties], or building in Macau.”...
...And most important: does “Political Gary [Gensler]” imply the existence of an “Apolitical Gary [Gensler]”?...
...“The main challenge Metro Bank now has is leveraging its expensive branch network to drive growth and so improve profitability,” said Gary Greenwood, of Shore Capital....
...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As senator Gary Peters — one of the authors of the Dodd-Frank Act — wrote to regulators including Gary Gensler and Jay Powell in March: Section 956 of Dodd-Frank was intended to require financial...
...Lex charitably suggested that Intel has bad luck. This reminded me of Gary Player’s comment: “The more I practise, the luckier I get.”...
...Try your luck at 1-across in this week’s Polymath crossword puzzle....
...In Group H, Ghana play Uruguay and South Korea play Portugal. Today’s matches follow a dramatic night in Doha that saw 2014 champions Germany knocked out of the tournament....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...Tough luck: the buck stops at the Oval Office, and elections are about psychology, not justice, as Carter discovered the hard way....
...“Good luck on that.”...
...Banks have tapped $12bn of liquidity from the Fed’s brand-new Bank Term Funding Program, or BTFP, according to the latest H.4.1. release....
...They lead the charge for those learning how to spend it: if they succeed, good luck to them. Meanwhile I enjoy watching and being shocked....
...(Laughter) Robert Armstrong Best of luck to you, Ethan. Ethan Wu Yeah. Thanks for being here, Rob. And thank you for listening....
...No luck. Readers who are more analytically sophisticated than I am may be able to tease out something more compelling....
...Good luck trying to get the money from companies coy about the location of their headquarters or how much of their trading is genuine....
...Good luck to all candidates. (H/T Toby Nangle)...
...Williams, another former colleague said, had “earned luck”, having been “hyper-attentive to the blocking and tackling” that goes into building a case as he made his way to the top of the SDNY....
...Both were designed by Gary Player, with the North said to have a “real links feel”....
...Glencore boss Gary Nagle is pushing his luck in promoting coal as a transitional fuel when gas fits the bill better. The real problem is the lack of a detailed world energy transition plan....
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