Hints and tips:
...I’m glad Katie Martin isn’t here because I don’t think she’d be able. This is such a hurtful topic to her, the terrible performance of the UK market, that I don’t think she’d be able to be objective....
...Black British Artist Grant, an annual programme giving a leg up to figures within the arts and addressing diversity and visibility across the creative sector. a-cold-wall.com; community.samuel-ross.com B...
...S&P executives tried to negotiate a licensing deal but never seemed to get anywhere. Without an agreement, they’d be buying a house without most of the land on which it was built....
...“If you were anything over a B-cup, none of the soft bras at that time worked,” she says....
...Declines in France were greater (Castorama LFL -44%, B-D -39%) with a slower pace of store re-openings. Poland was also robust (-9.6% LFL) as were Russia and Romania....
...With Brent crude prices rising from 18-year lows below $20 a barrel in April to about $40, Saudi Arabia is poised to bring back 1m b/d.Long-dated US Treasury bonds have lost favour among investors, sending...
...In deep value territory: Stocks are trading at 30-year absolute P/B lows and near relative 2008/09 lows (43). HEI and SGO screen as particularly cheap....
...A local school’s in two of the Indiana Jones films pretending to be Connecticut....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...I buy own-label marmalade in Harrods Food Hall, which is a place of fascinating theatre....
...Maybe investors feared he’d be paid more than his predecessor, Bart Becht, who had just received £90m....
...Corporate earnings for Friday include Associated British Foods, JD Wetherspoon and Newstar Asset Management....
...Daniel Ung, director of research at S&P Dow Jones Indices, called the findings “startling”. There are many other adjectives he could have used. Unsurprisingly the regulators are closing in....
...But there’s more 401(k)s than ever before,” says Mr Schlichter....
...S&P Dow Jones Indices describes 2015 as a “commodity catastrophe.”...
...Duncan Robinson EARNINGS Anheuser-B InB Q4 $1.46 ($1.51) BAT FY 210.47p (208.10p) D Telecom Q4 €0.168 (€0.09) Engie FY €1.104 (€1.27) Hot property For a moment last year, it looked as though the world...
...This is going to be most evident in food and apparel....
...Kitty Ussher, managing director, Tooley Street Research Ltd I don’t think it will be the subject of negotiation at all....
...If that continues then I’d again be watching sterling....
...For example, IBM stocks can be represented by PIC “IBM-S” and IBM bonds by PIC “IBM-B”. In some embodiments, PICS are issued (and destroyed) by highly authoritative entities....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect growth in the UK to slow from 2.0% in 2016 to 0.8% in 2017....
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