Hints and tips:
...Karen Frank joined Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on Thursday as senior managing director of its C$47bn equities division....
...… Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain, by Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin, Routledge, RRP£14.99/$29.99 The first major academic study of the UK Independence party...
...on the arrogant Fred Goodwin’s obsessive leadership....
...Karen Ward, HSBC No, it got close earlier in the year but the recent 8 per cent gain has stretched affordability again....
...Karen Ward, HSBC We might not be above normal but consensus of 1 per cent is probably too low. Consumption could be the main source of upside surprise....
...Debenhams, which houses some of the Baugur-linked brands within its stores, would also suffer from disruption if the likes of Oasis or Karen Millen had to pull out, though it would push sales of higher-margin...
...Andrew Goodwin, Oxford Economics I would be wary of starting too soon, for fear of choking of the recovery....
...Karen Ward, HSBC The main risk to recovery I’d argue is that the emerging world returns to strong growth which fails to boost UK exports but instead delivers an almighty cost shock through higher commodity...
...Karen Ward, HSBC The housing market is probably the most useful indicator of two variables that are otherwise extremely difficult to gauge - people’s long-term earnings expectations and credit laxity....
...And the large markets - US, Eurozone, China, India - because of scale Karen Ward, HSBC On the basis of the answer to question 1, I would expect it to be the US because this is where policy has been most...
...Karen Ward, HSBC I think the answer to this depends on whether you believe the UK started from a position whereby activity was above capacity, or below....
...Karen Ward, HSBC I think this financial crisis has shown us that rules are entirely arbitrary because we simply do not know what circumstances will befall us....
...Karen Ward, HSBC The first risk is the degree to which unemployment will rise....
...Karen Ward, HSBC The economic outlook will certainly darken before it improves because job shedding has only just begun....
...The Snake Stone By Jason Goodwin Faber & Faber £12.99, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 The streets, mosques, churches and palaces of Constantinople are brought to life in Goodwin’s second Ottoman crime...
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