Hints and tips:
...Hur came to the job with a sterling legal pedigree. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard and studied at Cambridge before receiving his law degree from Stanford....
...For sterling, it is 0.0031 per cent. Why has fakery fallen?...
...BlackRock and its chief executive Larry Fink were a lightning rod for both sides of the political spectrum....
...Jones inverted the trapezoid so that its narrower top became its bottom, reshaped all of the edges into curves and extended it into a rod....
...Sterling broke further from the conventions of high art with the 2019 launch of his own clothing label, SR STUDIO LA CA....
...What's up with sterling? The short answer is, it's falling. The long answer: for months, the pound has been stuck in limbo....
...The FT's Eva Szalay explains why uncertainty over how the UK will leave the EU has seen sterling drop against the dollar and euro, and why more jerky price swings are on the horizon...
...Sterling fell more than 6 cents, below $1.15, while the Aussie dollar is south of 60 cents (a 17-year low) and many other currencies are plumbing new and multiyear depths....
...Sterling has acted as a lightning rod for investors’ views on Brexit since the referendum in 2016....
...More recently, the falling value of sterling has attracted overseas buyers....
...In that case, lower interest rates would simply fuel inflation, compounding the effects of a likely fall in sterling....
...Sterling could shoot up to $1.45 if Brexit risk eases, but could slump to $1.20 if it intensifies....
...Back in equities, the S&P 500 came off its lowest levels of the day — with observers noting reports that Rod Rosenstein, the US deputy attorney-general, had told President Donald Trump he was not a target...
...But the recent rise in sterling suggests that some of those investors who played sterling short are now getting very much caught out....
...Two are threatening sterling simultaneously over the next few days....
...The FT's Michael Hunter explains how sterling is trading ahead of the UK's general election....
Leaving the EU on more favourable terms could help underpin sterling
...Some of the speakers were dull (Alex “A Rod” Rodriguez); others were not (Pitbull). But all were there to tell attendees that they were all proven winners, just for having bought a ticket....
...So now the first chart we have here is the chart of the MSCI world as a UK sterling based investor....
...To wit, my first recommended reading is a piece by Benjamin Wittes in the indispensable Lawfare blog on “Big Lies, Law Enforcement and the Defense of Rod Rosenstein”....
...The FT’s Roger Blitz speaks to Marvin Barth, head of forex and emerging markets strategy at Barclays, who believes that sterling is mispriced, and that the markets have misread the impact of Brexit...
...Sterling is still clinging on to those gains, trading comfortably above $1.28 in the wake of this week's announcement of a snap election....
...If a sterling denominated investor today chose to buy a 10 year treasury for extra yield and then hedged this back into sterling, then at current prices, almost all of the additional return would be eaten...
Our markets team discuss the outlook for government bonds and sterling
...The FT's Katie Martin highlights what to watch in markets on Wednesday, with sterling approaching $1.30 ahead of the Bank of England inflation rates announcement, while US stocks hit an intraday record and...
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