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...Global demand for plastics, which makes up 50 per cent of petrochemical demand, is expected to nearly double by mid-century, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Around the middle of the year, equities were doing OK, at least for investors prepared to stick a quarter of their exposure into seven supersized tech stocks, as tracking the S&P 500 benchmark or a broad...
...This book journeys to the centre(s) of the universe in search of these answers. Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, stated: “San Francisco: Centre of the Universe”....
...The prize for the Bracken Bower Prize, which is awarded to an author aged under 35, will also be announced....
...One of the company’s most senior executives, Jonathan Bowers, has also left....
...countries are now pivoting away from the zero-Covid approach to a preventative approach that emphasises vaccinations and other measures, like mask wearing and handwashing,” said a director at advisory group Bower...
...The winner of the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for young authors will also be announced....
...The FTSE All World index, excluding the S&P 500, has risen by a quarter since November, pipping a gain of one-fifth for the US benchmark....
...The Aristocracy of Talent, by Adrian Wooldridge (co-author, with Alan Greenspan, of 2018’s longlisted Capitalism in America) takes issue with the backlash against meritocracy....
...The closely followed Vix index, which measures implied volatility on S&P 500 index options, earlier this month dropped below its long-term average of 20 and remained there even during a period of losses...
...The S&P 500 closed down 0.8 per cent, a day after the blue-chip index’s best performance since June....
...There is a “bifurcation” in the market, said Grant Bowers, an equity portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton, as trends towards online shopping and working from home have strengthened, supporting stock prices...
...“We’ve passed the peak of negative economic data,” said Grant Bowers, an equity portfolio manager with Franklin Templeton....
...David Bowers, ASR’s head of research, described the ebbing of perceived recession risk as a “dramatic shift”, adding: “What dominates this survey is the unwinding of 2019’s global recession scare.”...
...US scientists are working with China to investigate Covid-19’s origins. Bill Gates told the FT that his foundation would give its “total attention” to Covid-19....
...Over at Absolute Strategy Research, Ian Harnett and David Bowers believe risk assets have reached a “critical point'' whereby “a failure to rally here could signal major risks”....
...Next up, Paul Lewis, host of Radio 4’s Moneybox, talks about why increases to workplace pension contributions are unlikely to result in a wave of people opting out of auto-enrolment pensions....
...Fifty Million Rising, a book based on 2015’s winning proposal by Saadia Zahidi, made the long list of this year’s Book of the Year Award....
...On Thursday I enjoyed catching up with David Bowers and Ian Harnett from Absolute Strategy Research....
...But Lindsey Buckingham, the guitarist who recorded that track, among others, for 1977’s Rumours album, will not be part of the line-up for the next tour....
...Into the floral bower stepped the eight musicians who make up the mechanistic half of Florence and the Machine. Then came Florence Welch, barefoot, with long tresses of hair....
...Andrew Hill hosts a discussion with an agent, publisher, 2015's winning co-author and this year’s three finalists...
...Find out in this bonus episode that celebrates the FT and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book proposal of the year by a young business writer....
...the car in 2016, he said it was culmination of a grand plan to enter the ferociously competitive automobile industry — first by making low-volume, high-margin products, such as Tesla’s Roadster and Model S,...
...Clearfield and Tilcsik won the FT and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for budding younger business authors in 2015. Meltdown evolved from their winning proposal....
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