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...Opinion: The BoJ has signed an armistice with unconventional monetary policy, not a peace treaty, argues Robin Harding....
...Mark Vandevelde tells the story of how their relationship led to the downfall of one of Wall Street’s most powerful men....
...And DS Smith isn’t alone....
...Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth sketches a very short, very wild history of the market that will shape the next financial crisis. We’re also reading and listening to . . ....
...Marc-Anthony Hourihan has been appointed chair of global M&A, alongside Scott Lindsay and Robin Rankin....
...Paintings hung salon-style in my former Highbury flat look shabby and lifeless on the more modest walls of my south London house, which can’t accommodate six rows of pictures — a few good ones are all they...
...Smart reads The $900k Book Companies still lavish time and money on IPO prospectuses even though their purpose is shifting, writes The Wall Street Journal....
...SVB’s culture: Insiders say the collapsed lender was a “very different type of bank” that more closely resembled the start-ups it served than Wall Street. 3....
...Reese Witherspoon sold her company Hello Sunshine to Blackstone for $900mn in 2021, for example, and Blackstone-backed Candle Media took a $60mn stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc...
...Junk debt makes a comeback Wall Street is ever so slowly revving up its junk debt machine....
...I went hoping to admire the long bed of blue-flowered daisies, Aster x frikartii, which ran under the wall down to the moat....
...Robin Wigglesworth, Swedish fixed income reporter I’m constantly seething with jealousy over some story someone else has written, but luckily for my mental wellbeing I rarely remember it for long (this...
...Herbert Smith Freehills has named 32 new partners. BuzzFeed plans to shut down its news division and cut its workforce by 15 per cent....
...Visitors to the pavilion (averaging 1,800 a day) flow in and out, grabbing a seat on an equipment case or leaning against the wall....
...Jazz Sunday Lunch, £39.50pp The Cinnamon Club (Westminster) The Old Westminster Library, 30-32 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BU Good for: Experiencing some of London’s best Indian food Not so good...
...(If you fancy a different perspective on the yield curve, our data viz wizard colleague Alan Smith set it to music here.)...
...And people get their faces ripped off as the old Wall Street adage goes. Marc FilippinoSo Robin, how nervous should we actually be? Because last time we spoke, you warned of risk in private markets....
...Thanks for sending your feedback, like this comment from Robin Cash of Iowa: “By controlling easterly areas, Russia has effective management of the entire Ukraine no matter who the elected leadership of...
...Unlike his better-known contemporaries — such as Robin Day or Sir Terence Conran — Clendinning was not a household name....
...Robin Harding Will the protests in Iran end? No....
...Additional reporting by Colby Smith in Washington...
...Meet our journalists: Robin Harding Robin Harding took up the role of the FT’s Asia editor in mid-August....
...A big bet on markets remaining docile has captured Wall Street’s attention, with $350bn fund manager Parametric earning itself the nickname ‘Gamma Hammer’ for billions of dollars’ worth of options trades...
...He wins a signed copy of Robin’s new book, Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever....
...The exit threatens a return to political volatility, writes Robin Harding. Leo Lewis outlines the top six challenges that Suga leaves for the next prime minister....
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