Hints and tips:
...Via the Twitter account of Julie VerHage (open in Twitter to watch in full): We’re not sure about the veracity of each other’s claims but you must admit, it beats a 20-minute discussion with a John Doe...
...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...
...Then credit rating agency S&P downgraded the group’s debt....
...Then came James Mackintosh, who wrote 1,039 Short Views (I had thought he was further ahead of me than that)....
...“She ought to be put on trial, not made director of the CIA,” says John Kiriakou, a former covert operator who resigned in 2004, exposed the programme and was later sent to prison....
...The company’s robust boss John Roberts says he is “very pleased with the achievements we have made”. There was a profits warning earlier this year. Unimpressive....
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: DOWN Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -21.61 (-0.17%) at 12,327 Topix down -1.48 (-0.14%) at 1,039 Hang Seng down -29.44 (-0.13%) at 23,061 US markets S&P 500 up +5.04...
...US futures suggest Wall Street’s S&P 500 will gain 2 points to 1,411, writes the FT’s Global Markets seducer Jamie Chisholm....
...Australian S&P 200 pared losses of about 0.3% to be 0.1% lower, after the unemployment rate unexpected fell from 5.4% to 5.2%....
...Declines in the S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Select Industry Index, which includes producers such as Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources, have been worse than those of the broader S&P 500 stock...
...The deliveries will start on August 1st and it will therefore be difficult to buy crude oil futures on any reported stock draws reported in the DOE weekly reports in the coming month as we now know that...
...In a bizarre addition, John Doe 2’s affidavit says: “Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades” and refers to a “wife swapping and sex ring...
...Mr Musk said it was already assured of $250m in loan support under one DoE plan, but it hoped to qualify for a larger $350m loan....
...john.authers@ft.com...
...John Reed is the FT’s motor industry correspondent...
...Lower down the market, the FTSE 250 advanced 150.2 points, or 1.4 per cent, to 11,039.5. Housebuilders recovered some lost ground....
...At the close, the Nasdaq Composite was down 2 per cent, or 41.29 points, at 2,039.42, its worst day in more than a month....
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