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...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent shortly after the New York open, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.3 per cent....
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...Nobel prizes: The premier scientific awards kick off with the medicine prize being announced by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm....
...It’s a far cry from the swashbuckling days of yore, when star managers like George Soros, Julian Robertson and Paul Tudor Jones made their profits and their reputations by taking big thematic bets....
...Thai food was seen as cheap and very accessible,” says Tam Chudaree Debhakam, a chef who earned her chops at Eleven Madison Park and Jean-Georges in New York before opening her urban garden and elevated...
...As Bloomberg pointed out at the time, that made it bigger than about a third of S&P 500 Index members. It didn’t last. The share price was largely wiped out on Thursday, plummeting 95 per cent....
...“Inflation is like an illness,” she said . . . . . . and the medicine needs to be tailored to the specific problem, otherwise you could make things a lot worse....
...Even the rolling default rate of uber-junky triple-C rated US companies is the lowest it’s been for nearly four decades, according to Deutsche Bank....
...Last year, for example, Wall Street’s S&P 500 index gained 27 per cent, while the FTSE 100 gauge added just 14 per cent....
...Veteran investor George Soros labelled China’s decision to reinforce on its zero Covid policy the “worst mistake” of Xi Jinping’s presidency....
...The previous three trading days had been the S&P’s longest losing streak since October....
...And I got funds from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to run an experiment and see if you could move the needle in getting more women into the field of economics....
...Other new starters received Hardball by George Stalk and Robert Lachenauer, which carries the tagline: “are you playing to play, or playing to win?”...
...The C$10m payment would be made to the Canadian Red Cross, which would support its Indian counterpart....
...Watercress is rich in vitamin C as well as iron and calcium....
...Raymond Seet, associate professor and a senior consultant in the division of neurology at the department of medicine in National University Hospital, led the research team....
...These algorithmic systems are standing in for human judgment in medicine, recruitment, loan approvals, education and prison sentencing....
...However in 2013 he turned down Canada’s prestigious Gairdner Award for discovering hepatitis C because his Chiron collaborators, Qui-Lim Choo and George Kuo, were not included in the prize though they had...
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...Mr Weston has ruled out “snatching” at C&C to defend lost sales. It would be an expensive mistake, he suggests. Probably rightly....
...Canada’s finance minister Chrystia Freeland delivered the Liberal government’s first budget since 2019, vowing to “punch our way out of the Covid recession” with C$101bn (US$81bn) in spending over three...
...As a life-long moderate Democrat, Mr Biden’s philosophy is assumed to be conservative with a small “c”, added to progressive with a small “p”. But politics is all about circumstance....
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@FT.com The day Zhong Shanshan became China’s third-richest man A former mushroom grower and onetime hawker of Chinese medicine’s answer to Viagra...
...“I think we have a good chance of finding [one] but it will take years not months,” said George Scangos, chief executive of Vir Biotechnology....
...EG’s downgrade leaves the group's debt one notch above the triple-C band....
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