Hints and tips:
...Using “higher compensation packages, GCCs have been wooing talent from the IT services cohort”, said Kamal Karanth, Xpheno co-founder. TCS and Infosys did not respond to a request for comment....
...The decline in US inflation “does not feel too bad”, Kamal said, with a dollop of understatement....
...“It’s an existential question for the ruling party,” said Kamal Ahmed, a political analyst....
...“[The failure of SVB] could have been an Archduke Ferdinand moment that lights a fire,” says Fahad Kamal, chief investment officer at private bank SG Kleinwort Hambros....
...“Equities just keep powering on, to everyone’s surprise,” said Fahad Kamal, chief investment officer at Kleinwort Hambros....
...“What can you say, it’s a fabulous day, everything is up,” said Fahad Kamal, chief investment officer at Kleinwort Hambros....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 share index, which on Monday closed out its longest unbroken series of all-time highs since 1997, closed down 0.3 per cent....
...“The market is now definitely pricing in one US rate rise by the end of next year,” said Fahad Kamal, chief investment officer of Kleinwort Hambros....
...Futures markets signalled Wall Street’s S&P 500 would flatline at the start of New York trading....
...“It’s not that a systemic spillover risk is impossible but it is unlikely,” said Farhad Kamal, chief investment officer at the private bank Kleinwort Hambros....
...Since the start of June, the S&P 500 growth index has advanced 4 per cent....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 index declined 0.8 per cent while the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite lost 1.1 per cent....
...We asked Kamal Ahmed, the business journalist, to act as the shareholder representative, putting the questions and demanding answers....
...South Korea’s Kospi index rose 1.8 per cent on the day, and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.9 per cent....
...“After a blistering start, further . . . gains will be harder to come by as much of the good news on vaccine[s] is likely priced in,” said Kamal Sharma, rates and currencies strategist at Bank of America...
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 closed flat after hitting a new record level in morning trading, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.3 per cent after rising to a fresh peak....
...The S&P 500 closed up 1.6 per cent on Friday, extending gains from the day before....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent....
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 index climbed 0.5 per cent despite the latest US non-farm payroll data sharply missing expectations; the country lost 140,000 jobs in December compared with an anticipated rise of 71,000...
...Having surged to $120 a tonne last summer, the Australian benchmark seaborne price of thermal coal has fallen 44 per cent to $61 a tonne, according to S&P Platts....
...Fahad Kamal, chief market strategist at Kleinwort Hambros, points out that forecasts also suggest a rapid improvement to 6 per cent earnings growth in the fourth quarter of 2019 — making summer “probably...
...Ask Fahad Kamal, chief market strategist at Kleinwort Hambros, if this is the end and he is definitive: “No.”...
...Kamal — perfection. Wujood — existence. At the end of our time in Pakistan, as the frigid cold hanging over Pindi begins to shed, the two of us travel to the north of the country....
...These models, and the valuations attributed to them, are far nearer the problem, says Kamal....
...As we shift gears towards tighter policy and leave behind 2017’s ‘goldilocks’ conditions, 2018 could prove a difficult year for investors.’’ Michael Mackenzie One more dollar heave?...
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