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...Despite proposing a set of regulatory and supervisory changes that will significantly diminish many banks’ profit profiles, bank stocks did not budge in response....
...True to form, Santos did not budge much when confronted. What seemed like wholesale falsehoods to critics were, he insisted, merely “résumé embellishments”....
...“Investors often pre-empt index changes, but for the first time they are underweight China A shares,” said Steven Holden, founder of Copley Fund Research....
...According to people familiar with the matter, the effort would likely be led by Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, and Liu He, Chinese vice-premier — and would be separate from the more specific...
...Robert Lighthizer, the trade representative; Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary; and Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, have been in office since the beginning of Mr Trump’s presidency in 2017....
...Upbeat comments on US-China trade talks by US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to lift Asian markets....
...Mr Trump’s tweets were followed on Monday by statements from Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, and Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, accusing China of retreating on its commitments...
...The impasse over digital trade is among the issues expected to be on the table when Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, travel to Beijing on March...
...Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, denied the claims in tweets Saturday: “I have spoken with the President @realDonaldTrump and he said “I totally disagree with Fed policy....
...But Steven Mnuchin could not be moved....
...Some doubt they will budge any time soon given the economic soft patch, the dovish Fed and even lower yields in international bonds....
...The labour market added 215,000 jobs in July, slightly below market forecasts but not sufficiently far off to budge mainstream views that the economy is in decent though not tiptop health....
...Which might instead be explained by the market collectively wanting to budge the clearing price of tin higher....
...They just won’t budge.” R3 claims that the problem of ransom payments could be alleviated by a change to the law....
...“We would look to lighten any exposures should spreads tighten – though we cannot envisage any obvious catalyst to produce this outcome in the near-term,” said Steven Mansell at Citigroup....
...“As even senior management begins to feel the pain of outdated tools and structures that refuse to budge, what was once shunned as bad is now the new good.” Full marks for chutzpah and imagination....
...Steven Crawshaw In May last year, four months before Bradford & Bingley was part-nationalised and part-sold to Spain’s Santander, its chief executive Steven Crawshaw, then 47, stepped down with heart trouble...
...Goldman Sachs shares failed to budge even after the bank reported another quarter of stunning earnings on Tuesday – and Goldman does not even have much of a subprime business....
...With eurozone interest rates stuck at 2 per cent for two-and-a-half years, even European economic data did little to budge the euro....
...After a year in which US long bonds failed to budge despite relentless monetary tightening by the Fed, that conundrum is even more challenging....
...Diamond's promotion, following Budge Pountney's temporary succession to South African Alan Solomons at Northampton, restores a British majority among Premiership head coaches....
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