Hints and tips:
...One local tells me how Marvin Gaye once played here, another tells me that’s bullshit, it was actually Al Green. I meet some faithful Labour voters but not many....
...From below, their anger is growing. “The ANC is rotten and it should be removed. It does not represent the ideals of Mandela,” Mohapi says. Otherwise, he fears, “we are heading for disaster....
...But below the surface, performance is mixed....
...The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield now hovers around its highest level since June, having climbed from below 0.7 per cent at the start of September to 0.85 per cent....
...Marvin Loh at State Street says past experience shows that forward guidance from the Fed “will be successful in keeping targeted rates in check”....
...It remains 24.9 per cent below its peak on February 19....
...But the gross domestic household income per capita for the city’s residents is 9 per cent below the UK average....
...As we begin the long ascent to Horseback Ridge, the valley below us is filled with music playing over huge backyard sound systems in the village of Bataca....
...Fourth-quarter comparable sales rose 1.7 per cent, below Wall Street’s estimate of 2.1 per cent, as softness in Canada partially offset a 2.4 per cent increase in the US....
...The company, which endured a tumultuous 12 months that saw the surprise departure of chief executive Marvin Ellison, saw losses more than double during the fiscal year that ended on February 2 as it failed...
...The idea is that with AI assistance, a good city can be constructed democratically, “from below”....
...Perhaps all our drivers will be like Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Let’s hope not....
...“Technological progress, once a facilitator of globalised supply chains, now challenges emerging market manufacturers’ climb up the value-added ladder and productivity growth,” said Marvin Barth, head of...
...Cocooned in a black Marvin Gaye hoodie, silver Louis Vuitton bomber jacket and BlacKkKlansman beanie, it looks like he has yet to acclimatise to the wet and windy English winter....
...two weeks of April, when temperatures began to normalise,” said chief executive Marvin Ellison....
...While the dollar index remains 8 per cent below its late 2016 peak that followed the election of Mr Trump, the cost of borrowing has risen a great deal....
...Marvin Loh, a strategist at BNY Mellon, said the data continued to support the Federal Reserve’s base case that gradual rate rises remain appropriate....
...But the fact that 10-year yields, which rose on Wednesday, remain below 3 per cent and also below their high for the year, is in this context a little alarming....
...Fed’s perspective, we think the report continues to point to a broadly expanding economy with tailwinds created by fiscal policies that will have a greater impact during the remainder of the year,” said Marvin...
...“While the worst fears on inflation did not materialise, prices are nonetheless firming in line with Fed expectations,” said Marvin Loh, senior global strategist at BNY Mellon....
...The standard NAIRU framework says inflation had accelerated because unemployment had dropped below its “natural” rate....
...“While CPI gains were the focus, the poor retail sales results have added an additional complexity of at least questioning the strength of the consumer entering 2018,” said Marvin Loh, senior global market...
...JC Penney’s chief executive Marvin Ellison is leaving the struggling department store operator to join home improvement retailer Lowe’s, the companies announced on Tuesday....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.5 per cent — or 665 points — on Friday, leaving it below the 26,000 level for the first time in almost three weeks....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 tumbled 3.8 per cent to 2,581, more than 10 per cent below its record high of 2,872.87. The index fell 4.1 per cent on Monday....
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