Hints and tips:
...(The Overshoot) — Grizzly bear conflict manager (USAjobs) — The AT1 boom (Bond Vigilantes) — George Santos is going out swinging (The New Republic)...
...(Project Syndicate) — One night in Washington with George Santos (The Intercept) — The formidable power of pension assets s making the financial sector more powerful while increasing global inequality...
...(Noahpinion) — Who said it, George Santos or George Costanza? (TNR) – How the ION cyber attack briefly sent the derivatives trading industry back to the 1980s....
...Other groupings designed to work in tandem include Quince and Cotogna in San Francisco; the Le Comptoir venues in Paris; and Il Santo, Il Santino Bevitore and S.forno in Florence....
...(Dezeen) — Lawfare did a podcast interview with ChatGPT and it “lied like George Santos”....
...She consults the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, who has studied the social habits of primates as well as humans....
...The Candidates is a double round robin; 14 rounds take place over 18 days, each player facing each other with both the white and black pieces....
...“That was in the Santos, a gift from Louis Cartier to [Brazilian pioneer aviator] Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1904. It was the first watch ever designed to be worn specifically on the wrist.”...
...Research by the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar suggests that laughter creates an opiate effect on which social bonding depends....
...Robin Wigglesworth has a good summary. But a lot of the commentary is missing the wood for the trees. The trees are these....
...Some investors seem willing to bet that there’s some value left in Banco Espírito Santo’s bad bank, bidding up its junior debt from the peanut prices touched earlier today....
...Banco Espirito Santo’s shares may still be suspended, but its bondholders are getting no such mercy, with the price of one junior bond being “bailed in” tumbling to just 21 cents on the euro this morning...
...Banco Espirito Santo’s shares and bonds are getting clobbered today after the bank late yesterday reported a first-half loss of €3.6bn and the Portuguese central bank ordered a swift capital raise....
...It also blocked the voting rights of Espírito Santo Financial Group, BES’s biggest shareholder with 20 per cent....
...Banco Espírito Santo shares jumped as much as 7.1 per cent in initial trading on the Portuguese stock market before giving up their gains, after the country’s central bank accelerated a corporate overhaul...
...This effectively “removes the general ruminative thoughts that occupy our minds most of the time”, Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, of Imperial College’s centre for neuropsychopharmacology, had told me....
...Photographs: Claire Takacs; Rui Santos...
...Portugal’s borrowing costs have declined for the eighth day running as the damage wrought by the Banco Espírito Santo saga has faded....
...Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, until last week the executive chairman of Portugal’s troubled Banco Espírito Santo, has been detained and is to appear before an investigating magistrate later on Thursday...
...A second company owned by the Espírito Santo group, the main shareholder of Banco Espírito Santo, has applied for creditor protection in another blow to the Portuguese banking dynasty’s crumbling business...
...… The final word on this should go to a team led by Laurie Santos at Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory....
...The Portuguese authorities may have unveiled a robust resolution to the Banco Espirito Santo saga – where shareholders and some creditors are likely to be all but wiped out – but bank bond markets have largely...
...Investors have shrugged off Crédit Agricole’s Portuguese “situation” (writing down the entire value of its stake in Banco Espirito Santo) and sent the shares sharply higher as they focused on the stronger...
...Portugal’s benchmark borrowing costs have dipped to a three-week low after Moody’s lifted the country’s credit rating to just below the “investment grade” level, arguing that the Banco Espirito Santo saga...
...Rottapharm’s plan to list on the Milan stock exchange was derailed amid a generalised IPO malaise made worse by concerns over Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo earlier this month, which sparked a sharp sell-off...
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