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...Last week John Williams, president of the New York Fed, said the current state of the US economy means he does not “feel urgency to cut interest rates”....
...“What we’re basically saying is the way you make your living now . . . you need to change because we’re moving away from fossils. Fossils are not the future,” he said. “Did we solve all problems?...
...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...It’s me back again after Aime Williams superbly stood in last week. Her take on the World Bank in the run-up to its spring meetings is here if you missed it....
...US climate envoy John Kerry said after emerging from a meeting with the COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber on Tuesday night that “a lot of good work was being done” to improve the draft text....
...This handpicked recording orchestra, re-formed by conductor John Wilson, brings playing of exceptional delicacy and precision to Ravel’s much-loved orchestral showpiece....
...“I would love it if certain countries had come here and signed on the dotted line and said, ‘we’re finished’,” said John Kerry, the US’s top climate diplomat, referring to fossil fuel production....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Given how volatile the data was during Covid-19, Williams et al suspended their estimates until May....
...Additional reporting by William Langley and Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong...
...Monetary policy: Federal Reserve governors Christopher Waller and Lisa Cook and New York Fed president John Williams will each be speaking at public events....
...“It is like listening in on a conversation between two mates who know a lot about something that you’re quite interested in as well,” Pastor says....
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...Murad Ahmed, technology news editor Bit of recency bias, but enjoyed the latest from John Carreyrou in The New York Times on Netflix’s lost sci-fi series....
...in Illinois to William & Mary in Virginia and Stanford in California....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...They’re just not leading that charge.” The rising discontent will probably pile pressure on the bank’s shareholders, the member countries, in the run-up to the COP27 UN climate summit in November....
...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...Now, they’re in the eye of the storm, the New York Times reports. Sign of the times Big changes are afoot in markets....
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