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...katie.martin@ft.com...
...And Louis has written, it’s sort of a brilliant piece on the valuation of this company and there’s all these questions about is the player base real or is it just bots and computers?...
...One of them is what is the base rate, right? Where is the Fed rate now? So that’s like 5-and-a-bit per cent....
...Ethan Wu(Laughter) And from London, the base text on which all chatbots are trained, Katie Martin in London. Katie Martin(In robotic voice) I am in charge (laughter) of ChatGPT, apparently....
...Here to talk with me now is Katie Martin, the FT’s markets editor. Hello, Katie. Katie MartinHey, how you doing? Josh Gabert-DoyonGood....
...One such example is Katie, a pre-school teacher from the US....
...Katie Tyler fits that bill. Based in Herefordshire, she uses pockets and buttons she covers in scraps of fabric to add character....
...Because who cares if you need to borrow eleventy squillion dollars, you can borrow them for basically free because the base rate is practically zero. So who cares? Load up....
...However, chief financial officer Katie Murray said the trend had “slowed through the end of the year” and should stabilise further this year....
...And Silicon Valley Bank in particular had a very concentrated deposit base. They were also hyperconnected. They were talking to each other. They were sharing information, sharing rumours....
...I think reproductive rights are gonna be front and centre, and I think reproductive rights is gonna be, you know, an issue that the Democrats are really gonna try to energise their base with....
...But the BoJ’s base rate remains at minus 0.1 per cent, and it holds 10-year yields at zero per cent, tolerating just half a percentage point of movement on either side of that target....
...Because as much as I as a product provider I’m here working with our client base, our clients are working with their, ultimately, their pensioners and savers, and what they want....
...And that means that the base rates have to be somewhat higher to tackle them. Ethan WuYeah....
...Thank you so much for your time, Katie. Katie Martin Pleasure....
...(The New Yorker) Learn what primary exit polls have told us about how Trump’s base has changed....
...The lower house, where Milei’s La Libertad Avanza coalition controls fewer than 15 per cent of seats, had voted to approve the base of Milei’s “omnibus bill” last Friday....
...“We have global champions in Europe but they grow on a smaller domestic base before they can have international ambitions.”...
...Many long-only investment funds are also rebuilding their positions from a low base after selling huge amounts of tech stock last year....
...In his absence, we have a world-class line-up of Financial Times journos, including Katie Martin on the bull case for dividends....
...Over at the Long View, Katie Martin notes there seems to be only one thing that matters to financial markets this year — the path of interest rates. All the more reason to follow this closely....
...Russia has deployed Iran-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones to Belarusian air bases, according to Ukrainian military intelligence....
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