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...The hard landing first became a soft one, and now looks more like a brief touchdown for refuelling. Even Ray Dalio is sounding somewhat optimistic....
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...This means there are soft corals as well as hard ones, and 688 species of fish....
...It’s hard to argue with this statement in the circumstances....
...“The market is way weighted to a very soft landing. And when you look at the pattern of facts the last three or four years, it’s hard for me to see it’s going to be that simple,” Solomon said....
...They are also predicting lower unemployment and only slightly higher inflation: It isn’t clear that officials will be able to pull off this “soft landing” business....
...This makes the scene that opens up feel close to perfect: a cosy, waterside room with a wood burner already flickering with heat, and beds dressed in blankets woven from a soft Lofoten wool....
...But the gap between the stronger services sector and the struggling manufacturing industry is widening....
...And of course, in the modern era of dispersed shareholders, large public companies can be hard to control even for large and influential investors....
...The Borg reports: In a Bloomberg Television interview in Davos, Switzerland, Quincey said that in almost every category, the maker of sodas, juices and sports drinks has products without calories and sugar...
...Getting rid of the company’s 25/75 weighting of 2024 and 2025 results, and shifting all weight to 2025, boosts the share price a bit, to $36....
...[He] was brilliant at using soft power, and that translated into hard power, in the form of shipments of military equipment. Hard power is the core, but soft power plays an auxiliary role.”...
...Sales growth is set to stay soft because of both the smartphone replacement cycle and weak sales in China....
...agreements barred by US regulator (FT) IBM nears deal for cloud-software provider (WSJ) Tesla shares rise as it plans to accelerate launch of ‘more affordable’ models (FT) Jamie Dimon cautions over soft...
...Investors should take a hard look at the core retail business and reset their expectations accordingly....
...“You say you are between a rock and a hard place but you have chosen sides; you have chosen the Saudi side, not the American side.”...
...They note several signs of declining labour demand, including falling job openings, more surveyed workers saying jobs are “hard to get” and the rising duration of unemployment-benefit use....
...The court is concerned with net assets, within which any liabilities must be evidenced and considered. There are two types of liabilities, referred to as “hard” and “soft” loans....
...And this leads to the final point about tactics. It was apparent from the so-called “early look” and “pilot-fishing” meetings that the CVC IPO was going to be a blowout....
...If, like us, you enjoy making up numbers, have a go: This is all meaningless financial engineering, however — what does it mean in terms of cold, hard (or soft) furnishings?...
...This month is the soft launch of VIV Arts, a sales platform to support artists and collectors of a more experiential bent....
...Commercial fishing was “hard,” with tight margins, Clement said. Requiring vessels to carry federal observers “is a burden, but having to pay their salaries is a crippling blow”, he added....
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...step up a probe into Saudi Arabia’s use of “soft power” in the US....
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