Hints and tips:
...The benchmark US S&P 500 index has barely budged since the Hamas attack on October 7....
...When the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher privatised the water monopolies in 1989, she wiped out their debt....
...Ignoring gains for megacap growth stocks, the S&P 500 rose just 1.4 per cent in the first three months of 2023, said UBS....
...Margaret Ennis, 54, an office assistant from Brooklyn, was planning on cutting her Christmas shopping by half compared with last year because of higher food costs....
...On Thursday, the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election will be held in the seat vacated by former Scottish National party MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the House of Commons for breaching...
...We do get involved in small ‘p’ political strategy and implementation.” Blair’s regular advice is simple. “One of the first things I say to any prime minister or president is ‘do you have a plan?’...
...S&P, the rating agency, has negative outlooks for two-thirds of the UK water companies it rates — indicating the possibility of downgrades as the result of weaker financial resilience....
...It’s Me, Margaret. Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Emily Goldberg...
...“I want my money back,” he said, quoting former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who in the early 1980s demanded that the EU reimburse Britain for its contributions. “I’ll get it back,” he added....
...At the Bush Theatre, Waleed Akhtar’s The P Word chooses the latter, with immensely moving results. Here the prejudices under scrutiny are racism and homophobia....
...The channel’s cable subscribers have dwindled from 98mn in 2013 to less than 74mn last year, according to estimates from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Likely anticipating Musk’s meltdown, Margaret Dorn, head of North American ESG rates indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices, has published a helpful guide to the S&P 500 ESG reshuffle with its biggest section...
...So I thought it was worth having a chat with the person who oversaw the index change: Margaret Dorn, S&P Global’s head of ESG indices for North America....
...More than 1mn working days are expected to be lost to strikes in the UK in December, the worst disruption of any month since the tail-end of Margaret Thatcher’s time in office....
...In 1998 he even persuaded former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher to join the advisory board....
...Who could bear to kill and eat a feathered friend called Princess Layer or Margaret Hatcher? Hobby farmers who name their chickens are unlikely to save any cash....
...Index companies insist that they give ample explanation of their processes (see, for example, Moral Money’s recent interview with S&P Global executive Margaret Dorn, explaining the exclusion of Tesla from...
...Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge and retail consultant Mary Portas also gave their support....
...Naím skilfully combines reportage with social-science research to identify the new tactics used by authoritarians, highlighting the three “P”s: populism, polarisation and “post-truth”....
...Joseph P Joyce M Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, MA, US Letter in response to this letter: An economist’s wry take on first lesson of politics...
...The last speaker, UK government minister Margaret Hodge, exceeded her allotted time span by half an hour....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 share index closed 0.5 per cent lower in New York, while the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite ended down 0.3 per cent....
...Margaret Kerins, global head of fixed income strategy at BMO Capital Markets, said she expected sharply lower borrowing costs to prompt a number of companies to tap the bond market....
...“Markets are agreeing, at least for now, with [Fed chair Jay] Powell that the inflation we are seeing is ephemeral,” said Margaret Vitrano, portfolio manager at ClearBridge Investments....
...That reading is still being tweaked, edited and redesigned in a language that is rational, elegant and calming and defined in letters designed by Margaret Calvert....
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