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...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Weak bank boards, poor risk processes and insufficiently robust risk committees allowed the balance sheets of Northern Rock, HBOS et al to expand unsustainably....
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...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...It followed a string of other adviser exits in recent weeks (Nick Timothy, Fiona Hill et al). More surprising was his candour....
...At the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held in a labyrinth of pavilions on the outskirts of Milan, officially it’s the blue-chip furniture manufacturers — Kartell, Vitra et al — that are the biggest draw...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
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...The surest way to reward owners, Mr Ashley et al, is for Sports Direct to pay a dividend. What banks would give Is the business of phones any safer than the business of banking?...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...A weighty and mean-looking coffee table must, available at something of a bargain price....
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...According to Cassola et al. (2009), banks submitted more aggressive bids in order to make sure that they receive at least a minimum level of liquidity....
...Whatever Mr Cameron et al might think, restraint is not a word in most bankers’ vocabularies. Patrick Jenkins is the FT’s Banking Editor Patrick.Jenkins@ft.com...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
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