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...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...Every moment of her Renaissance World Tour I was in jaw-dropping awe. Days after, I found myself asking, “What was that?” and tearing up trying to explain the concert to others....
...“It will be very difficult for Japan to achieve a V-shaped recovery in the number of new births,” he said, arguing that the most optimistic scenario might be maintaining the 2022 level or a little higher...
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...If there is a sense from this earnings season that confidence in a V-shaped recovery for profits is misplaced, then the impact will probably be hardest on companies with weak balance sheets, and on those...
...Consumers are flocking to use online services and the renaissance of drug development has intensified....
...“Markets are pricing a V [shaped recovery], everyone’s coming back to work, and this is going to be fine,” Mr Falco said. “I don’t think it’s going to be that easy quite frankly.”...
...Smart reads Renaissance bankers The coronavirus-fuelled bottleneck of big-ticket mergers has dealmakers diversifying their client offerings, from how to navigate supply chain headaches and the trade war...
...recovery is no longer in the cards....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...SoftBank founder predicts WeWork V for Victory Masayoshi Son admitted today he had turned a “blind eye” to governance lapses at WeWork but promised a “sharp V-shaped recovery” for the shared offices provider...
...We think Airbus would be best-positioned to benefit from a V-shaped recovery in 2021....
...The recovery that took a decade damaged employee morale, retention and ambition. Citi and its universal bank brethren believe there is still a place for full-service offerings....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...It comes as the music industry is facing a big test of the sustainability of its recovery....
...Corporate “capital expenditure”, or capex, has sagged since the immediate post-crisis recovery, especially in the wake of the collapse in oil prices that forced energy companies to slash investment plans...
...Related links: Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense? – FT Alphaville Who are Tesla’s competitors, really?...
...However, music’s apparent recovery is threatened by a fierce power struggle between the industry and digital platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, which offer music for free....
...More excitable commentators predict the era of the mass production of ideas, of a “second renaissance”, of the flowering of a global civilisation....
...Broadcasters are, however, riding a recovery in advertising sales....
...(FastFT) Despite the UK’s economic recovery, productivity growth is “still abysmal”, real wages are running below the rate of inflation, and gross domestic product per head is unlikely to return to pre-crisis...
...On the back of booming demand for services and strong investor interest, Ecobank has become over the past decade one of the few genuinely pan-African companies of scale....
...He notes, too, that the UK’s recovery is built on sand....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
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