Hints and tips:
...Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon, is the largest shareholder in IDS with a 27.5 per cent stake and has been a prolific dealmaker in the UK, buying stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London...
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. The inflation narrative could flip fast Jay Powell is worried about inflation again....
...Meanwhile, email me your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...Robert Armstrong I guess Powell said there’s two reasons. Kate DuguidI like this pronunciation of Powell’s name. Robert ArmstrongOK. It’s Powell. Kate Duguid(Laughter) Like President Jay Powell....
...Throw in Jay Powell speaking in Amsterdam today, producer prices, retail sales, and housing starts, and you have an information-rich week. Send your predictions to: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...I don’t want to suggest that Powell managed to jinx the market. Rather, his comments may have represented peak optimism....
...Powell is tantalisingly close to securing the soft landing, and his legacy. Disagree? Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...The boss of J Sainsbury said shoppers were starting to splurge on certain items after two years of shopping for bargains, as Britain’s second-biggest supermarket forecast rising profits this year....
...Perhaps a reader can explain how things have changed: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...Robert A J MatthewsDidcot, Oxfordshire, UK...
...But on both counts, Powell pointed to good news....
...How Jay Powell talks about this problem is going to matter a lot. Email before 2pm eastern time with your predictions about whether the meeting will be hawkish or dovish: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...We’re wondering to what degree Jay Powell will acknowledge slowing pace of disinflation, and what he will attribute it to. Send me your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...Powell’s press conference reinforced this picture....
...Chief executive Simon Roberts said: “We expect to continue to grow grocery volumes ahead of the market.”...
...More than half a century later, in 1988, economists Robert Shiller and John Campbell investigated whether this approach could help predict aggregate stock market returns. They found that it could....
...So nobody wants to be Arthur Burns, least of all Jay Powell....
...Opinion: The Fed is utterly frozen between two poles, unable to even gesture in either direction, writes Robert Armstrong in today’s edition of the Unhedged newsletter....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Shadowboxing with the term premium With 10-year yields now at 5 per cent, the rising term premium remains the talk of Wall Street....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Powell talks tighter financial conditions An economy in rude health buys a central bank time to wait....
...As the case progressed on TV, Simpson’s legal team of Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro tapped into the theme of race and the LA police department....
...In a litmus test of industry feeling ahead of next month’s Oscars, Nolan’s biography of nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer left with seven Baftas in total, including the blue-riband award for best film...
...Help us replenish it: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...And it is true that Jay Powell pushed back on the possibility of a rate rise. But he also emphasised that he is prepared to be extremely patient about cutting....
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