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...There has been 338 GWh of new US battery manufacturing capacity announced this year alone, according to data from S&P Global Commodity Insights, more than the past four years combined....
...Or, to put it in more international terms, what happens when investors riding the bandwagon with the Brazil of Zico, Falcao, Socrates and Junior suddenly find themselves up against the Italy of Paolo Rossi...
...The book draws heavily on classical Greek philosophy, including the works of the “big three” – Socrates, Plato and Aristotle – and pre-Socratic philosophers going back as far as Hesiod....
...In the other, the rule is abstract, such as, “If a card has the letter P on one side, it is yellow on the other”....
...Which reminds me of the graffiti: “To be is to do” – Socrates “To do is to be” – Jean-Paul Sartre “Do-be-do-be-do” – Frank Sinatra!...
...Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portugal’s president, is to meet political parties on Friday in an effort to resolve the crisis triggered by the resignation of José Sócrates, the prime minister, after his defeat in...
...The correlation between Bund yields and the S&P 500 is at a record high of 0.93....
...Many investors say the resignation of José Sócrates as prime minister on Wednesday has made a financial rescue more likely....
...of José Sócrates, prime minister....
...Related links: S&P warns on Portuguese bail-out – FT...
...S&P also cut the country’s long-term rating by three levels in two separate moves over the past 10 days....
...But S&P said the country’s “high external financing needs and limited funding sources” could force Mr Sócrates to seek help from the European financial stability facility, the EU’s bail-out fund, and the...
...Among S&P’s key concerns is BES’s “relatively high reliance on wholesale funding” and what it believes will be “a meaningful decline in BES’s domestic profitability in 2011 to weak levels”....
...The P-word would surely put people off....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.9 per cent to regain the 1,300 level. In Europe, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 index gained 1 per cent, while Portugal’s PSI gained 1.1 per cent....
...S&P put Belgium’s AA+ credit rating on negative outlook and said it could be downgraded within six months because of the country’s failure to form a government since elections in June....
...“For all that, we managed to show just a 7 per cent fall [peak to trough in the S&P 500]. It shows a remarkable resilience,” he says....
...Meanwhile, political crisis paralysed Portugal as the parliament voted down a deficit cutting plan, which resulted in the resignation of José Sócrates, the prime minister....
...Barclays Capital analysts had forecast €7bn-8bn and a recent S&P stress test came up with a figure of €10.5bn....
...S&P said the government would need to “implement fiscal consolidation over and above its current plans” to meet its deficit targets by 2013....
...As group CEO from 2004 to 2009, he expanded the company into India, China and South Africa, and spearheaded collaborations with P Diddy and Tom Ford....
...Cities, the dense agglomerations that dot the globe, have been engines of innovation since Plato and Socrates bickered in an Athenian marketplace....
...To buy it for the special FT Bookshop price of £7.99 plus p&p, tel: 0870 429 5884. ‘Hadrian: Empire and Conflict’, sponsored by BP, is at the British Museum from July 24 to October 26...
...José Sócrates, Portugal’s prime minister, has declared that “appropriate diplomatic formulae will be found”....
...It is available through the FT Bookshop at £20, plus p&p, tel: +44 0870 429 5884; www.ft.com/bookshop The Hampton Court Palace Garden Flower Show runs from July 3-8, tel: +44 (0)20-7649 1885 www.rhs.org.uk...
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