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...Outgoing Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman last week also told the Financial Times that he expected the European discount to start to narrow....
...Prompted by interviewer Russell Napier’s mention of US political strategist James Carville’s infamous quip that he’d like to be reincarnated as the bond market, Kwarteng mused: I was, in a way, a victim...
...Napier is fond of apposite quotations. One of his favourites is from the American author James Grant: “Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Gene-edited tomatoes have echoes of Huxley’s Soma / From James Raftery, Manchester, UK...
...Des McDaid: Off-site There aren’t many graduates of Napier Technical College (now Edinburgh Napier University) among the managing director class at Goldman Sachs....
...“They are all under commercial pressure,” said Anna Leask, professor of tourism management at Edinburgh Napier University....
...An even briefer message (Letters, August 30) is the pun attributed to Sir Charles James Napier in 1842 when he went beyond his remit and conquered the whole of the Indian province of Sindh, rather than simply...
...“I was given it by Lady Mariota Napier, the lovely sister of the Earl of Mansfield.”...
...What, asked author Russell Napier, would Smith have thought of today’s markets? Answer: not much....
...Keith Cozza, Courtney Mather and James Nelson will replace John Boushy, Matthew Ferko and Christopher Williams....
...“This novelty’s never going to wear off,” Aaron told James. “I’m going to feel like this forever.”...
...Now serving officially as music-director emeritus, James Levine conducted with his customary concern for suavity underlying propulsion. A master....
...He explains the risks to FT investment editor James Mackintosh....
...James Breech, head of Cougar Global Investments, says: “Bull markets don’t die of old age. It’s always recessions that kill bull markets....
...Uber-bear Russell Napier, a member of Cerno Capital’s investment committee, argues that with interest rates on the floor, deflation exported from emerging markets poses a serious danger to the US....
...Tireless lobbying by manager Simon Napier-Bell (who cunningly briefed against rival candidates Queen) had secured the gig for George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley....
...But Jason Napier at UBS said: “We think the dividend is considered sacrosanct.” In contrast, StanChart has already scrapped its final dividend while launching a £3.3bn rights issue last year....
...A little pushy at times in its raids on our emotions — less isn’t more for this director — James Napier Robertson’s second feature dramatises the story of speed-chess champ Genesis “Gen” Potini (Cliff Curtis...
...Richard Napier, Nationwide director of mortgages and savings, said: “We’ve seen significant amounts of customers favouring longer term fixed rate mortgages this year....
...Richard Napier, Nationwide director of mortgages and savings, said: “Adopting this new more flexible approach across all our fixed-rate mortgages clearly demonstrates the tangible difference our mutuality...
...Citi Capital Advisors, Citi’s alternative investment arm, was spun off in 2013 under Jonathan Dorfman and James O’Brien. The group was not organic to the bank....
...As financial historian and CLSA consultant Russell Napier pointed out recently, credit rationing was a disaster in the 1970s....
...One of Mr Napier’s favourite items is the autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s central banker, pompously titled My First 76 years....
...“Everyone’s on bubble watch,” says financial historian Russell Napier. “We all have to be on bubble watch because the central banks are on bubble watch.”...
...Russell Napier, stock market historian, predicted in 2009 that easy monetary policy would drive a long rally in stocks, followed by a crash taking the S&P 500 below its 2009 low....
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