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...“The BoE probably requires more convincing to actually start the ball rolling” on rate cuts, said Allan Monks, UK economist at investment bank JPMorgan....
...But the net effect is Budget headroom that has shrunk further to £8.9bn, leaving the UK’s “fiscal cupboard looking bare”, according to Allan Monks of JPMorgan....
...“Overall, the trend looks close to flat,” said Allan Monks, economist at JPMorgan, of the retail numbers....
...Allan Monks, UK economist at JPMorgan, said the BoE would need to make a “dovish pivot” that acknowledges the possibility of easier monetary policy this summer while not encouraging expectations of cuts...
...Allan Monks of JPMorgan expects the Treasury to have £7bn of extra headroom, enough in itself to enable a one percentage point reduction in income tax....
...Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Allan Monks, of JPMorgan, estimates the fiscal headroom could increase by 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent of GDP, or about £20bn more than the OBR’s March forecast of £6.5bn — which would enable fiscal easing...
...A third copy was emailed to Sam Smith, who had accepted two of Mackay’s novels for publication on the internet. Heather Scott got a fourth. “It was terribly upsetting,” she says....
...“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s, there are few,” wrote the Buddhist Monk Shunryu Suzuki in his 1970 book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind....
...Shetty is a former monk-turned-life coach with a fabulous English accent....
...Products include Chapterhouse Gin, incorporating herbs used by Augustine monks, such as chamomile and angelica root, plus frankincense....
...She coaxes Monk over to the piano and starts growling out “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, as he runs little arpeggios and harmonies in and out of the vocals. Sam taps his feet enthusiastically....
...Then Charlie Stacey takes the angles out of “Ruby, My Dear”, ups the tempo, and reconfigures Thelonious Monk’s 1940s classic into lush harmonic variations....
...Additional reporting by Sam Agini, Peter Foster and James Pickford...
...This minimal, single-line drawing by Sam Nicklin is now a bit of a collector’s item. Each label peels back to reveal more information about the beer and artist....
...Following the gaudy, overblown fiasco of his King Lear, which recently closed early on Broadway, director Sam Gold is back on more familiar ground with this stripped-down musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd...
...“I remembered my friend Sam. I’d met his daughter when she was three-weeks-old and she seemed really easy-going. She was 13 months by this point....
...Daniel Monks, who is paralysed on one side, is outstanding in the lead role....
...“Why this is hell, nor am I out of it,” says Mephistopheles, casting a sardonic gaze around the confines of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse....
...Thelonious Monk Les Liaisons Dangereuses – 1960 (Sam/Saga Records) Thelonious Monk recorded his contribution to the soundtrack of Roger Vadim’s film Les Liaisons Dangereuses in one day in July 1959....
...The economist Sam Peltzman found that inequality of life expectancy has declined enormously since the mid-19th century....
...“Cod, umami hollandaise, monks beard” would not be a strange combination for a modern British bistro, but the sushi rice cake that comes with it is a well thought-out twist that works....
...In Myanmar, Facebook suspended the widely followed page of Wirathu, a monk known for his anti-Muslim jeremiads, in January, 10 months after the country’s state-backed Sangha clerical committee banned him...
...Toller is a reader of Thomas Merton and Hawke says he drew on the writings of the 20th-century Trappist monk while preparing for the role....
...By contrast, she delivers Bessie Smith’s “Sam Jones Blues”, with a stomping, high-handed relish. Poor old Sam arrives back home after a year on the lam to find the door firmly shut in his face....
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