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...Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years....
...“Those androgynous, luxurious and often queer-coded self-representations resonate with today’s menswear designers,” says Jay McCauley Bowstead, lecturer in cultural and historical studies at the London College...
...Williams, who is a close ally of Fed chair Jay Powell, stopped short of saying that the current benchmark rate of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent — a 22-year high — was “sufficiently restrictive”, but acknowledged...
...Any residual fears were extinguished last week, when policymakers indicated they expected to cut interest rates by 0.75 percentage points in 2024, with Fed chair Jay Powell giving his strongest signal yet...
...Federal Reserve boss Jay Powell agrees....
...Jay Powell, the Fed chair, has also said the central bank should approach further decisions “carefully”. Christopher Waller, another hawkish Fed governor, is also on board with this approach....
...We’re wondering to what degree Jay Powell will acknowledge slowing pace of disinflation, and what he will attribute it to. Send me your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...“They’re clinging to that idea, even if [Chair Jay Powell] didn’t give a clear message that they’re done”....
...the S&P 500’s total shareholders’ equity — that there are no companies in the US or abroad that are (a) big enough to make a meaningful impact on Berkshire’s earnings, (b) possible to reliably value, (c)...
...If there is one global celebrity who reflects small-c conservative values better than Taylor Swift, I struggle to think who that may be....
...All four models now use a universal USB-C charging port, following demands from EU regulators....
...We did get calls from folks saying, why don’t you own more triple-C’s? And then there would be periods of time where volatility would spike and these triple-C-only managers would blow up....
...asset management division of BNP Paribas, the French banking group, has sent letters to 14 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies asking them to use a cloned substance called recombinant factor C...
...“[Then there’s] the cost of getting Jay and me and our studio to Switzerland, the hotels we stayed in and the time spent by their team on the project....
...Jay Powell warns Fed is prepared to return to bigger interest rate rises Women still struggling to close corporate America’s gender gap Credit: C-SPAN Federal Reserve Chair Testifies on Monetary Policy...
...Jay PowellYou have seen stronger labour market conditions, higher inflation, stronger consumer spending....
...CS: A year ago at Sintra, chair Jay Powell said the clock was running on how long we would remain in a low-inflation regime....
...It described its thinking in Box C of its latest monetary policy report....
...That’s Signa with an S, not a C. It owns stakes and trophy assets like Selfridges in London and New York city’s Chrysler building....
...This week will bring a string of post-meeting Fedspeak, culminating with Jay Powell talking at the IMF on Thursday. We expect opinions on the economy to diverge widely....
...Many CLOs have also already hit their limits on the number they can buy of triple C loans — one of the lowest credit ratings the major agencies can assign....
...Separately, Canada will disclose its trade balance for the same month, and is forecasted to report its own widened deficit of C$500mn from C$40mn....
...Citadel’s physical commodities business — which trades the raw materials and is led by former Morgan Stanley head of commodities trading Jay Rubenstein — traded more than 1.1tn cubic feet of gas in 2021...
...One of China’s best-selling stars is the Taiwanese Mandopop singer Jay Chou. “When Hong Kong singers want to be successful in the China market, they have to change language,” Fung says....
...“It gives you vitamin C and a little pep in the morning.” We are in the Caféhaus Siesmayer, an unflashy Viennese-style coffee house best known for its indulgent French and German cakes....
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