Hints and tips:
...Shares in Mastercard and Visa have both risen more than 9 per cent over the past 12 months, standing out smartly against the S&P 500’s 7 per cent drop. Fourth-quarter results underlined why....
...The plumbing behind key derivatives markets blocked up this week after a cyber attack on financial markets group Ion Markets, highlighting the computer security risks to trading....
...World Wide Technology, an IT service management company, featured a video of JillyAnne Kent documenting a day in her early career development programme....
...The ecosystem for green bonds is also hungry for plumbing products that align with environmental or social interests....
...US investors in index funds have saved $357bn in fees over the past 25 years, S&P Dow Jones calculates....
...By the time the financial crisis erupted, the Solutions unit was a fully fledged financial advice group with deep expertise in the plumbing of markets....
...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...
...F1 executives believe this is enough to satisfy the broadcasting contracts worth around $565m in 2019, around 40 per cent of F1’s overall revenues....
...Singh is the author of Collateral and Financial Plumbing, a senior economist at the IMF, and a fellow at Georgetown University....
...Prices for emerging market stocks are plumbing fresh lows....
...Island Investment: Investment in fintechs in Hong Kong has soared, with 2017’s total investment double that of 2016....
...B&M’s return on capital has been rising, from 8.9 per cent in 2015 to 10.3 per cent in the past year, according to S&P Capital IQ. Net debt has also been falling and cash flow improving....
...Intraday In New York, the S&P 500 to also tipped open 0.1 per cent higher....
...A commuter service between London and Kent also runs on the 109km line....
...With its miles of wires and lines of computer code, telecoms is basically a technical sector — even if management of these plumbing businesses gets boring....
...Analysts believe that 2016’s lack of growth is unsurprising, given the competitive mobile gaming market, into which 280,000 new games were launched last year....
...Record highs for the S&P 500 index has fuelled strong demand for equities and derivatives trading....
...ECB policy decision day has arrived, and it’s time for everyone’s other favourite Italian with a knowledge of (market) plumbing to take to the stage....
...It is understood that BAT was waiting for Reynolds to complete its $27bn merger with Lorillard, the maker of Kent and Newport cigarettes, before deciding whether to move....
...The European Union’s economy is a “sinking ship” and Britain would be better off “detaching itself” from the bloc, Michael Gove, the U.K.’s Justice Secretary and prominent leave campaigner told CNBC on Tuesday...
...Jack Kent, analyst at IHS, said Apple Pay had sparked renewed interest in the mobile payments market....
...In the wake of plumbing two-and-a-half-year lows on February 11, global stocks as measured by the FTSE All World index are up 6 per cent, while the S&P 500 is nearly 7 per cent higher....
...payments, Google has ensured that Android Pay will be able to work on the majority of UK Android smartphones, rather than the limited number of recent flagships that have fingerprint sensors,” said Jack Kent...
...Bats Global Markets has launched a new volatility index to compete with CBOE’s popular Vix, aiming to capitalise on cracks in the market plumbing exposed by wild market swings last August....
...Increasing the number of affordable homes is a necessary but not sufficient condition for reversing the decline in ownership; politicians still need to take stock of the dramatic changes in the plumbing...
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