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...The Fed’s statement pushed fed funds futures markets to price in a greater probability that the US central bank is done hiking for this economic cycle....
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...At the moment, 64 separate carbon pricing initiatives cover about 21.5 per cent of emissions globally, according to figures from the World Bank....
...Would it be V-shaped, with a rapid pick-up from the depths? Or W-shaped, with a succession of setbacks? Or would it take an L-shape, with us all getting knocked down, unable to get up again?...
...To get there, Ant is building Alipay+ into a universal QR code, so a Korean user of KakaoPay e-wallet or a Malaysian user of Touch ‘n Go e-wallet can pay for a taxi in Singapore by scanning the Alipay+ code...
...That sounds like a reasonable expectation to have after Fed Chair Jay Powell doubled down on his hawkish tone at Jackson Hole last week....
...N R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
...We’re in for a “sustained period of below-trend growth,” according to Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell, as the central bank continues to hack away at persistent inflation....
...Previously Jay Powell, Fed chair, had indicated the central bank was on course for back-to-back 50-basis-point rises at this week’s meeting and the next one in July....
...Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell, World Trade Organization head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey are among the top drawer list of speakers....
...But Beijing has signalled a more cautious approach following a 20-year lending spree. What does that mean for the continent? Will the UK and EU agree a deal on N Ireland?...
...Jay Powell signals Fed is prepared to raise rates by a half-point in May The Federal Reserve chair sent his strongest signal yet that the US central bank is prepared to raise interest rates by half a percentage...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Powell laid out his position with his customary precision....
...I saw that person on a rain-lashed day in June 2012, aboard the royal barge as crowds lined the banks of the Thames, determined, in a deeply British way, to celebrate the diamond jubilee, the biting cold...
...Mail-order retailer N Brown said in a first-quarter trading update that while it remains on track to meet full-year earnings expectations, its financial services revenue will be lower year on year....
...The idea arose after Barât and Doherty reunited with bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell in 2014 to make a comeback album, Anthems for Doomed Youth....
...Soft data, like a survey, may also help those industries, like cruise ships, which are still in a coronavirus crunch. Jefferies, the investment bank, has leaned towards the latter....
...The findings echo analysis from the Bank of England last week, which calculated Britons had saved an extra £180bn in their bank accounts during the crisis, or almost 10 per cent of the UK’s annual gross...
...V vaccine, potentially making it the country’s third available jab if approved by the drugs controller For up-to-the-minute coronavirus updates, visit our live blog A pint, a haircut, a spot of shopping...
...Here was an admittedly clueless guy making bank on a stock tip from a date. What are the odds? But then we paused for a moment, and had a think about that question: just what are the odds?...
...In fact, the latest survey of global fund managers from Bank of America, released last week, showed that just 10 per cent of respondents expect the recovery to resemble the letter V....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell said America was still “very far from a strong labour market” and that inflation would remain subdued in a speech on Wednesday....
...But households would save more of their incomes than they did last year, he said, meaning “a sustained V-shaped recovery in households’ spending is out of reach”....
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