Hints and tips:
...Send other reasons to be cheerful: robert.armstrong@ft.com. Rates will matter again before long The market doesn’t seem to care much about interest rates right now....
...I think perhaps we should take that with a pinch of salt. But there’s this febrile atmosphere among the Tories. It’s prompting lots of questions about Sunak’s authority....
...Banks could be at risk too; lower rates would pinch net interest margins, already at record lows, without doing much to curb the pipeline of bad property loans....
...The radical right With two by-elections on Thursday this week and the run-up to May’s local and mayoral elections coming too, the Conservative leadership has some looming pinch points....
...In a pinch, companies can also reduce debt by raising equity, so long as economic conditions are OK....
...If you have a theory about footwear-specific investment risks, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...The history of the namesake Gap brand trying to reinvent itself is trying to make these things “iconic” using celebrities, slick photography and a pinch of feeling for the 1990s....
...Robert Lighthizer, the former US trade representative under Trump, who would probably serve again if he were to be re-elected, has already been on Fox News decrying the deal....
...It is hard to persuade America’s cognitive elites that there may be valid reasons to take their worldview with a pinch of salt....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...One of the pinch points in the public services is that the courts and the legal system and the prisons are so overloaded that they're actually having to advise the courts to let prisoners out. Yes....
...Even well-paid professionals say they are feeling the pinch as less generous pay and bonus packages are eaten away by bigger mortgage repayments, higher taxes and rising living expenses....
...Stricter lending conditions should pinch shakier borrowers the most, raising default risk and thus yields. But this rule, once sturdy, has broken down....
...One possible surprise in its analysis is that the wallet pinch might be felt by Cracker Barrel as well as Urban Outfitters....
...In today’s newsletter: Metro Bank’s messy week Abcam’s takeover drama The regulatory saga that left Metro Bank in a pinch Metro Bank hasn’t exactly been on a tear in recent years....
...“When customers are really feeling the pinch, then it’s probably not justifiable. And the only justification would be that a policy has been put in place to deviate from that,” Ghazi said....
...So, yeah, I think any headlines about landslides take with an enormous pinch of salt.Lucy FisherAnd just finally, Jim, I loved the who’s who you did....
...Sylvanian comes from the word “sylvan”, meaning “of the forest”; although you should take this etymology with a pinch of salt....
...According to the royal adviser, the sales process is just one public sign of the financial pinch facing members of the Saudi ruling family....
...You need to take the banging on the tables with a pinch of salt....
...“The prospect of a Trump presidency is a lot more remote than voters feeling the pinch right now,” says Shulman from Beacon Policy Advisors....
...Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...
...FT Reporters: Peter Foster, Jennifer Williams, Bethan Staton, Sarah Neville, Jane Croft, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Robert Wright and Jude Webber...
...Despite fierce competition from video on demand services enticing cinemagoers away from movie theatres and fears that the cost of living pinch may stymie the industry’s recovery, Richards insisted Vue’s...
...The pinch will encourage investors to cash out their assets at a discount, pushing bond (and stock) prices down and yields up....
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