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...Kirk’s physical tracking of Sofi’s unravelling is beautifully observed, slumping further down her lounger as normal life recedes....
...Email: stuart.kirk@ft.com; Twitter: @stuartkirk__...
...According to Shirai, one major source of uncertainty is whether the sharp wage increases by Japan’s largest companies will trickle down to small and medium enterprises....
...He gives Bobby a winning combination of childlike enthusiasm, dazzling dance moves and sharp comic timing and, in one line, sums up the entire ethos of the show: “I’m dancing and I can’t be bothered now....
...Unfortunately, he thinks it is about to end: High-frequency liquidity indicators suggest this [expansion] is already stalling, and coming weeks seem increasingly likely to bring a sharp reversal....
...Kirk reminds us to keep focused on shareholder returns....
...Kirk’s speech included some sharp accusations of what he called hyperbole around climate change — including from an earlier speaker, Deloitte chair Sharon Thorne, who had warned that there would be “no jobs...
...One good read Bank stress after a sharp rise in interest rates? We’ve seen that movie before....
...“A short sharp recession is already in the share price of PageGroup but what isn’t is a long shallow stagflation lasting many years.”...
...Airlines feel squeeze as plane leasing groups raise rents Airlines are flying back into profitability, but one cloud remains on the horizon: sharp increases in rental costs....
...The sharp move in gilt markets triggered calls for additional collateral from the pension funds, some of which either could not or would not stump up, or were forced into a fire sale of assets to meet cash...
...Stuart Kirk, the former head of responsible investment at HSBC Asset Management, argues that for ESG to progress, it must be split in two. 2....
...One good read Many readers will be aware of the great Stuart Kirk ESG kerfuffle....
...The argument jarred so much with the public positions that HSBC and other banks have adopted that Kirk was quickly suspended....
...She called for a sharp increase in innovation, the importance of keeping markets open to prevent famine and redoubled efforts to reduce meat consumption and food waste....
...Outside China, there have been sharp increases in trust in domestic brands at foreign brands’ expense. Add that to the list of things to worry a Davos-going globalist....
...Criticisms of the environmental, social and governance investment agenda have been flowing thick and fast in recent weeks, whether from Republican politicians or from HSBC’s Stuart Kirk....
...Investors have yanked $50bn from emerging market bond funds this year in the latest sign of how a sharp tightening of monetary policy in developed economies and the war in Ukraine has sparked a flight from...
...“I don’t think I’ve seen a market like this,” said Kirk. “It’s pretty much as extreme as it’s ever been.”...
...Those criticisms came into sharp focus on May 31, when German police raided the offices of asset manager DWS and its majority owner Deutsche Bank as part of a probe into allegations of greenwashing....
...“The monument manufactures its own aura,” writes Kirk Savage, an art historian at the University of Pittsburgh who specialises in American monuments....
...My reality, grey, sombre, hard, sharp-edged. Unrelenting, unremitting. Reality is spinning away.”...
...The USS John McCain sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week, sending a message that the Biden administration would continue to conduct operations in areas that frequently spark a sharp response from Beijing...
...Her academic field was French 19th-century painting, and there is not a picture which her sharp analytical reading fails to illuminate....
...Still, the poor performance marks a sharp setback for Mr Son, SoftBank’s chief executive, who used the fund’s investment firepower to make large bets on companies including Uber, the ride-hailing group,...
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