Hints and tips:
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Small caps tend to be more volatile than blue-chip stocks both on the way up and down — and could be big medium-term winners if Kolanovic et al are right....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Surely Zuck et al can make money — serious money — out of messaging software with two billion users. I disagree on the Metaverse, though. It is not “free”....
...“Companies have underdelivered the IPO promise,” said Tracy Dolin-Benguigui, a Barclays equity research analyst who covers insurance companies....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...Baker Hughes took a 5 per cent stake in Adnoc’s drilling unit....
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...Plus, Capita already has a degree of financial gearing with historic 1.9x Net debt/EBITDA and a reasonably high pension deficit, with a net liability of £87m at 30 June, so equivalent to 18% of the market...
...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....
...By contrast, speculative financial investors are further retreating....
...He will be there to sign the first closing of the largest private equity investment vehicle created, a $90bn-plus fund for technology that will include up to $45bn in funding from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign...
...The company has raised about $30m in equity and $25m in committed debt. The latest round of $19m of equity funding was completed in November....
...Low supply plus high demand equals rising prices. Yet what happens when supply rises to meet demand? This is what has occurred in the oil market....
...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...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...We see interest rates falling, bond issuance exploding, and pressure for capital-account liberalization rising… The core of [Xi et al's] strategy is a set of three choices: 1) slow the accumulation of debt...
...But which is more successful at motivating a team, and delivering outstanding financial results?...
...The surest way to reward owners, Mr Ashley et al, is for Sports Direct to pay a dividend. What banks would give Is the business of phones any safer than the business of banking?...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
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