Hints and tips:
...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....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...John Malone’s complex empire is tripping up credit default swaps traders. Again....
...Martin Weale, professor, King’s College London I expect growth of 1.7 per cent....
...UK credit conditions have eased since the spring, with credit and monetary acceleration, a Bank Rate cut and more QE....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Monetary union does not need fiscal and political union. It needs debt restructuring. The book provides a sophisticated “liquidationist” alternative to the dominant rhetoric. Why Are We Waiting?...
...(Financial Times) - The Alabama coal billionaire and the Colombian murder lawsuit. (Bloomberg) - Chinese ‘shadow banker’ executed without seeing family....
...The political stasis and the Dexia situation prompted Moody’s to warn of a potential downgrade of Belgium’s Aa1 credit rating on Friday....
...Corporate clients include Credit Suisse and PolyGram; private customers include Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Lauren and David Tang....
...Brass letters rose to a shine against black iron: Lieutenant Godrej Khodadad Mugaseth King George V’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners Below that an epitaph: He lived as he died, everybody’s friend....
...His successor took much the same view, pouring scorn on the European Union’s founding conference at Messina....
...Editorial comment: Boris v strikers Boris Johnson’s patience has snapped, says the FT....
...Philip Shaw, Investec This is not likely to be a V-shaped recovery. Banks still need to repair their balance sheets, implying credit will remain relatively scarce, constraining growth....
...From the beginning, Du Bois understood how change would come – just as King and all the civil rights giants did later....
...Stephen King, HSBC: The lessons from previous financial crises are twofold....
...Agriculture credit flow was Rs.2,87,000 crore in 2008-09. The target for agriculture credit flow for the year 2009-10 is being set at Rs.3,25,000 crore....
...GMB Union The GMB union said the government’s new proposal on capital gains tax was too little, leaving multi-millionaires paying lower tax rates than others who earn far less. ”There is no justification...
...On June 23, the Johnsons took grandstand seats in Piccadilly to observe George V’s coronation procession....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...The bright minds at the Christian Democratic Union have come up with some creative ideas to help her become Germany’s eighth postwar chancellor....
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