Hints and tips:
...These have picked up markedly in recent years, from a low of about 400,000 b/d in the pandemic year of 2020 to about 1.4mn b/d recently, according to Richard Bronze at Energy Aspects....
...But you might have missed one unexpected sales host: Richard Liu, founder of Chinese online retailer JD.com....
...But it’s still interesting, and if you want to get into the weeds we’d highly recommend checking out the full paper....
...Even though his own campaign uses TikTok, Biden said he’d sign a bill banning TikTok from US app stores....
...If nothing else, you’d expect their sheer size to slow them down....
...In total, the group will now produce almost 6mn b/d less than it could in the first quarter of 2024....
...“If I presented those demand dynamics and those supply dynamics about copper, we’d be talking about copper prices doubling. But we never talk about UK equities doubling.”...
...The sale was to a group of existing investors, included Chrysalis investment trust, which is run by Jupiter fund managers Richard Watts and Nick Williamson....
...Richard Barnes, a credit analyst at S&P said: “As retail deposits start to reduce and banks start to look at [BoE funding scheme] maturities, there may be more pick-up in activity by banks in the wholesale...
...There is an excellent D-Day museum, a few churches, two prisons, a castle and some pubs....
...“I felt I’d had enough and it was time to . . . generally step back, although I don’t think any of us really know what stepping back properly means.”...
...The FT’s Richard Waters sees it as a hedge against the eventual waning of enthusiasm for smartphones....
...We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D King (Yale) Until recently, central banks were worried that inflation was too low....
...“If Russian flows of diesel get cut off, everybody’s tighter and then it becomes more of a competition for who gets the volumes,” said Richard Joswick, head of global oil analytics at S&P Global Commodity...
...Berkshire, which is the largest component in the S&P 500 value index, has fallen 6 per cent in 2022, far outperforming the 17 per cent decline in the benchmark S&P 500....
...S&P executives tried to negotiate a licensing deal but never seemed to get anywhere. Without an agreement, they’d be buying a house without most of the land on which it was built....
...But if we don’t get hung up on the d-word, then the BIS analysis is valuable too....
...South Africa’s biggest export port, Richards Bay, has a loading capacity of 91mn tons but is struggling to get more than 70mn tons out of the country because of rail problems, Price says....
...Peltz’s stint at Unilever will probably be a smoother one than at P&G, where he waged a bitter proxy battle, Lex notes....
...“You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle sometimes,” he told Richard Madeley, co-host of Good Morning Britain, after he was asked “Are you or are you not a Marxist?”...
...By contrast, the FTSE 100 is up less than 2 per cent, while the S&P 500 is down 14 per cent. France’s TotalEnergies and Italy’s Eni have risen 26 per cent and 16 per cent respectively....
...US imports of Russian crude have fallen to just 13,500 b/d since the start of the year, according to S&P Global Platts, and while the US is much more reliant on partly refined products, most industry experts...
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index dropped 2.5 per cent while the benchmark S&P 500 index slid 1.4 per cent....
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...In its most recent report, the Divest Invest network compared the S&P 500 index with and without the inclusion of fossil fuel companies....
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