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...Analysts said some banks could lift their guidance when they report first-quarter results beginning this week....
...the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition...
...February 29 to March 16; further information and tickets here ‘Dear Octopus’ and ‘Nye’, National Theatre A revival of Dodie Smith’s tale of family, memory and nostalgia on the eve of the second world war...
...On his return to Ghana in 1969, Larbi joined the department of architecture at KNUST and went on to design Kumasi’s National Cultural Center and the Kumasi head office of the Bank of Ghana....
...Monetary policy New York Fed president John Williams is set to speak about regional and national economies, as well as monetary policy, at an event at the State University of New York at Buffalo....
...Republicans benefit in first ‘post-pandemic’ election High inflation and poor school test results as well as rising levels of crime have replaced Covid-19 on the list of voter concerns....
...to its Series A funding round led by Insight Partners and supported by Citi and National Australia Bank Ventures....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...Then, in November the company’s UK subsidiary was slapped with demands from the State Bank of India and Yes Bank for repayment of loans worth about £200m....
...(FT) The day ahead Monetary policy Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Robert Kaplan is expected to moderate a conversation on national and global economic issues for a virtual Global Perspectives...
...The EU financial services commissioner is due to meet Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey on Monday....
...(FT) Banks adopt new debt terms US banks have begun inserting legal terms in debt documents to protect themselves against accidental fund transfers after Citigroup lost a legal battle to recoup $500m of...
...US banks, meanwhile, are pressing the US central bank to extend concessions that loosened capital requirements when the pandemic struck....
...(FT) Italy turns to Draghi Italy’s president is expected to ask Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank, to begin talks to form a new national unity government....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...The National Association of Manufacturers warned this week that officials could not restart the economy without providing “strong liability protections” for business....
...Colby Smith Will the euro maintain its strong run?...
...Economists trying to forecast the impact of coronavirus often sound more like geographers. Or typographers. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey maps a depression that is “V-shaped”....
...“The prospects of a ‘V-shape’ recovery have long since faded, and we don’t expect the size of the UK economy to return to pre-virus levels until at least 2022,” said James Smith, economist at ING....
...James Smith, economist at investment bank ING, said April’s GDP figures were “shocking”....
...Exports of goods to China account for 7 per cent of all German exports, or 2.8 per cent of national output in 2018....
...nationals and the importance of travel retail for the whole industry....
...The UK urgently needs both a real, green national investment bank, and authentic, regional banks, like the nascent South West Mutual....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
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