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...BUY: AG Barr (BAG) Cost pressures hit margins, but revenue and profit progress demonstrate the strong brand equity on offer, writes Christopher Akers....
...By Friday morning “a total of $100bn was scheduled to go out the door”, Michael Barr, Fed vice-chair for supervision, later told Congress. The bank was dead....
...Yellen, Powell and Gruenberg spoke again, and brought Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice-chair for supervision, into the conversation....
...Five independent directors have been appointed to oversee different linked companies, led by former US federal judge Joseph J Farnan Jr, after lawyer Stephen Neal backed out of a board position....
...Andrew J Oswald: Young economists have not lived through times like these. I am afraid we all learn by painful experience....
...It said: “Today, President Donald J Trump spoke with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom....
...Idorsia would receive royalties of 20 per cent to 35 per cent on J&J’s hypertension drug aprocitentan, if successful....
...His own attorney-general, William Barr, has said there was no evidence of election fraud that affected the outcome of the vote....
...Letter in response to this article: Why Trump may choose Florida to hunker down / From Bridget J de Margary, Boca Grande, FL, US...
...Meanwhile, the US attorney-general, William Barr, called the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election “completely baseless”....
...Nicholas Barr: As the economy picks up, cyclical unemployment will fall....
...history have the federal courts been called upon — and been eager — to decide so many disputes over presidential power or, for that matter, separation of powers between the president and the congress,” says J....
...Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologise for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?”...
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...“There is a huge influx of overseas buyers”, says David Barr, sales agent at Wayne Walker Property Consultants....
...Putting himself in Goldman’s shoes, Peter J Solomon, founder and chairman of a boutique investment bank, says he would “absolutely” want to cast off Volcker and make big bets again....
...J Sainsbury dropped 3.9 per cent to 241p, largely in response to cautious guidance from management in a post-results conference call....
...Andrew Bounds EARNINGS J Halstead H1 16.95p (16.30p) Trading and sales update: Tui Handset hopes at BlackBerry BlackBerry investors will be looking for signs that the company’s latest handset, the...
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics More pessimistic than 12 months ago....
...Stephanie Flanders, chief market strategist for Europe, J P Morgan Asset Management To more than 3% by the end of 2017....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics Perhaps helpful in the short run if he implements expansionary policy....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics If, as I suspect, the economy falters, tax revenues will decline relative to forecasts, hence fiscal headroom will be needed....
...Stephanie Flanders, chief market strategist for Europe, J P Morgan Asset Management I do not believe the MPC will raise rates in 2017....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics Immigration won’t change much in the short run — and probably not much in the medium term....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics Growth will slow but it’s not clear how fast....
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