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...Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)The bestselling author of 2016’s eerie, gothicky The Essex Serpent and 2018’s Melmoth returns with a new story set again in eastern England, following a pair of...
...“When you burn books,” she says, “the ashes that rain down, I call it confetti at a fascist parade.”...
...Sep 8 Death of the QueenThe death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 brought to an end the longest reign in British history — over 70 years....
...The zeal of the austerity drive started by the 2010 coalition government is to blame, according to the FT’s John Burn-Murdoch — and he has the data to prove it....
...First quarter cash burn was £1.7bn though that reflects some first-quarter cost loading....
...— S Moor Room by Emma Donoghue, Picador, £7.37 Room is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, held captive in a small room along with his mother....
...There’s little agreement on how high the S&P 500 will go before correcting again....
...WPP says that July is down 9.2%, which put s it ahead of schedule against our Q3 forecast....
...When Mifid II was introduced in January last year, the stockbroking industry braced for a wave of consolidation....
...Today we’re testing positive for MIFID II violations. What follows is little more than a comprehensive bundling of sellside research....
...Hence Total S/H return will remain low considering low L-T ROE generation....
...Wider market’s directionless, Europe having captured most of its selloff in reaction to the US’s controlled burn Covid strategy during Wednesday’s session....
...Support for the DPS comes from cover remaining >1.2x, a healthy reg. cap surplus of 85p+ p/s, and dividends being a mandatory component of fund manager variable comp....
....$40m monthly cash burn for CINE standalone (with only 15% of rents paid), the extension/placement extends cash burn to c18 months (from March 2020). Looking through....
...It expects the burn rate to increase to £11m if lockdown persists beyond June....
...Imperial Brands is the FTSE 100’s biggest faller at pixel after cutting the dividend by a third, which everyone had expected, albeit not yet....
...Our 300p TP equates to 9x EV/EBITDA in 2022E, based on EBITDA forecasts that are 20% below 2019’s level. • Updates to follow. Requests, complaints and so on can go in the comment box....
...The quarterly declines in GDP growth we anticipate substantially exceed anything previously recorded going back to at least World War II....
...Meanwhile, Faber remains independent, and has in the past few years brought in vital new talents such as Man Booker Prize-winner Anna Burns, Sally Rooney, and Max Porter....
...(ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...Still championing that tradition today is Andrei Zvyagintsev, director of 2014’s Leviathan, which sailed close to the wind in its critique of corruption under Putin....
...ii) The size of the adjustment we have already seen, tends to be fairly similar to the scale seen in past corrections....
...Their shortcomings led millions of people into dire poverty and created a fertile environment for World War II....
...The S&P downgrade may have caused the breach of critical support levels of 1250 on the S&P, but anything could have caused that breach and triggered the technical rout....
...Nakamoto: The radiation level in central control room of Fukushima Number 1 nuclear power plant is at 1,000 times normal level, according to the Nuclear Power Safety Council. 2156 – FT Alphaville flags an S&...
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