Hints and tips:
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, the daughter of a union machinist, comes from a family that has collectively spent more than 80 years working at the company....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...The General Motors strike registered last month as motor vehicle and parts manufacturing payrolls declined 42,000. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 per cent to 3.6 per cent, matching estimates....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...“Uncertainty around Homebase, Poundworld et al presents opportunity for B&M from both a property and a capacity withdrawal perspective....
...Thus the CBI, Airbus et al are either ignorant or deceitful; you can take your pick.”...
...It followed a string of other adviser exits in recent weeks (Nick Timothy, Fiona Hill et al). More surprising was his candour....
...(Al Jazeera) MAGA v MOPGA French president Emmanuel Macron appears to be goading US leader Donald Trump....
...The company raised $3.4bn in the offering, more than it had sought....
...(FT) The real winner in Syria Hizbollah’s standing is almost as strong as Iran’s as a protector of President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and a sponsor of Shia forces in Syria....
...Meanwhile, General Motors has begun selling the Chevrolet Bolt, a long-range affordable car, while Nissan announced its family-priced electric Leaf would also have greater range on a single charge in 2018...
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...(Guardian) Life of a Saudi morals enforcer For most of his adult life, Ahmed Qassim al-Ghamdi was a dedicated member of the country’s hardline religious police....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...et cetera, but also critically that we are part of the EU....
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...Council Abdullatif al-Zayani....
...Sales at General Motors and Ford fell 8.2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively but beat estimates and GM raised its industry sales forecast for the year, according to the FT....
...The largest is Topaz, a 147-metre vessel built by Germany’s Lürssen Yachts for a client thought to be from Abu Dhabi’s ruling Al Nahyan family....
...Worse, HMC et al could be doing this amid a strengthening won and a weakening yen. Hyundai is just beginning to shift focus from volume growth to serious margin enhancement....
...Toyota had enjoyed a shining reputation for quality and reliability, helping it to overtake General Motors in 2008 as the world’s biggest carmaker....
...The fact General Motors has just slipped into the gloom of Chapter 11, only reminds finance directors of the mortality of once impregnable corporate names, compared with the expensive tendency of pensioners...
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