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...MSCI is particularly dominant in international indices and has close links with BlackRock. (Many of its exchange traded funds track MSCI gauges.)...
...Will the private credit party end in tears?...
...It’s a tall order for a company about which Credit Suisse analysts wrote in 2018: “Organic growth is not Kraft Heinz’ expertise.”...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow Robert Shrimsley with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this column: A global Britain needs an independent DfID / From Paul Murphy et al...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...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....
...“[South Korea et al] probably don’t belong in an emerging market index, particularly on the debt side,” added Mr Huebler, who said EM investors generally think they are targeting “countries that have a risk...
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Separately, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Ford’s credit rating to junk....
...The private equity arm of Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to buy the power solutions business of Johnson Controls International for $13.2bn, an all-cash deal that ranks among the largest leveraged...
...Harris Associates, which owns 9 per cent of Credit Suisse, believes the thrust of the activist plan has little merit, but David Herro, Harris’s international chief investment officer, told the FT that RBR...
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
.... ——————————————- BUSINESS Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace, Bantam, RRP£20/ Random House, RRP$28 Catmull defies...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...Outside the EU, Russia, Turkey et al. are also vulnerable to “optimisation of risk-weighted assets,” to use the euphemism plastered all over eurozone banks’ Q3 results presentations....
...The writer is a professor of international political economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author of ‘The Globalization Paradox’...
...With another 7 per cent of the voting rights in the hands of Prince Al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who this week told the FT “this is the time for a loyal shareholder to stand by his friends and allies...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Whatever Mr Cameron et al might think, restraint is not a word in most bankers’ vocabularies. Patrick Jenkins is the FT’s Banking Editor Patrick.Jenkins@ft.com...
...The results of Dagong’s assessment have been making headlines early this week, since they, err, diverge somewhat with those of western rating agencies like Moody’s, Fitch, Standard & Poor’s et al....
...John, London, UK DB: The threat is much greater than our politicians care to give credit for. Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should....
...Here it is: We have discussed ‘naked’ CDS ad nauseum before when this was supposedly an issue in the US with Lehman et al. We also discussed it when the sovereign scare first started up....
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