Hints and tips:
...college admissions....
...Harvard colleges face rising pressure to scrap preferences for legacy admissions after Supreme Court ruling following a complaint filed earlier in July by three Massachusetts-based advocates for minority...
...“We’re seeing some encouraging signs of resilience, especially when you look at private sector demand,” EY Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco said....
...I got three A*s at A-level whilst working in McDonald’s and John Lewis, and during the first year at Bristol, I just noticed something was a bit off and I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I suddenly felt...
...He’s a former county prosecutor who’s now running for state attorney-general....
...With that proviso, Monday is the date set for the criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump’s family company over tax fraud charges brought by Manhattan’s district attorney to begin in a New York...
...“The scale of the trading was stunning,” said Damian Williams, US attorney for the southern district of New York....
...While the US’s most populous state avoided large-scale outages on Monday, the situation brought an admission from governor Gavin Newsom that poor planning had left California ill-prepared for extremes in...
...Large derivative bets have left traders bracing for wild swings in tech stocks. This week, anticipated volatility for the Nasdaq 100 reached its highest level, relative to the S&P 500, in 16 years....
...The report appeared on Tesla’s first day of trading in the S&P 500, weakening the electric carmaker’s shares....
...The end-game will only approach when big capital (re) investments are needed — in turnrounds and costly maintenance projects....
...S&P 500 futures contract....
...M&S swiftly pulled it from its food range....
...Portfolio re-balancing may have destabilized markets, but I think the more important consequence of the GICS change was the public admission that Technology is no longer special....
...What we’re reading America’s drug courts In 2017, drug overdoses, many from opioids, killed about 72,000 Americans — more than the number that died in the entire Vietnam war, and more than the peak number...
...Since election day in November, the S&P 500 energy stock index has risen about 7 per cent. Energy bonds have rallied....
...“If you say [to them] you’re going to be doing this job for five years and it’s going to be broadly the same, of course you’re not going to keep them....
...David Davis’s admission of there being no economic impact assessments made for leaving the EU steps into territory that is surreal....
...(Reuters, FT) McDonald’s Thousands of workers have been protesting outside the restaurant group’s headquarters for the past two days....
...“We’re not letting up and we’re not going away and . . . we’ll continue to pursue these cases either to litigation in the courts or to a significant resolution – whichever is in the best interests of the...
...The DoJ sued S&P, a unit of McGraw-Hill, earlier this year over its ratings on mortgage debt and in August Bank of America was sued for its mortgage sales practices....
...Additional reporting by Gregory Meyer, Michael MacKenzie and Dan McCrum in New York...
...Bruce McDonald, a former US deputy assistant attorney-general for antitrust and a partner at Jones Day, says: “In the same way petroleum prices rise and fall with supply and demand, government enforcement...
...And by that I don’t mean traffic cops for attorneys; I mean guys who actually know how to understand the claim, identify it, manage it to a conclusion, get a fair, fast and friendly resolution for the guy...
...“We’re not pulling back from our fundamental strategy,” he said. “We’re not changing our view.”...
International Edition