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...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...This is the first time a former US president has stood trial on criminal charges and follows last week’s surprisingly swift appointment of a jury....
...The bank’s sports team have no time to rest on their laurels, however....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...As the caseload has eased, the number of people still under lockdown has declined to roughly 133mn in 16 cities, the Japanese bank said....
...I think what’s happened with Russia and the debate about banks turning off access to Swift means that governments are really waking up to the fact that they don’t want to be beholden to the US or China....
...Fintech fascination Swift response Western leaders ratcheted up economic sanctions against Russia over the weekend after its invasion of Ukraine, cutting some of the country’s banks off from the Swift global...
...Western banks, multinational corporations and law firms have become swift in retrenching from Russia as their deep ties to Moscow and its affiliates have become apparent....
...A survey from Bank of America this month found that only 14 per cent of fund managers expected a V shaped recovery, compared with 44 per cent predicting a U-shaped one....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...The findings echo analysis from the Bank of England last week, which calculated Britons had saved an extra £180bn in their bank accounts during the crisis, or almost 10 per cent of the UK’s annual gross...
...Respondents believed the swift intervention of governments and central banks to support the economy and markets was necessary, but half said the aid should be short-term while 49 per cent said it would be...
...Most believe the development of a vaccine to address coronavirus would be needed to fuel a swift recovery....
...It may be V-shaped for some, U-shaped for others and the most unlucky will never fully bounce back....
...Fund managers were more downbeat than last month about the prospects for a swift economic rebound from the virus. The proportion expecting a V-shaped recovery fell to 14 per cent from 18 per cent....
..., with some scepticism about the V-shaped . . . path in the Bank’s May Monetary Policy Report....
...Yes Bank, which had been one of India’s fast-growing private banks, was taken over by the government in March. The ensuing credit crunch has made it difficult for many Indian companies to raise funds....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic.”...
...The writer is a senior fellow at Harvard University and advises the UK Department of Health and Social Care So far, so V....
...Although the latest round of corporate earnings reports in the US have made for generally grim reading, many executives have expressed hopes of a swift return to normality....
...Uh, Virgil Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors fuck around and crash baby. I do the dash baby, uh....
...That is our snap reaction in economic or financial crises and why we cling to our repertoire of charts of V, U or L-shapes of recovery, among many....
...Our reviewer says Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore is unlike anything the artist has done before....
...Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, called for a common European fiscal response that was “swift, sizeable and symmetrical”....
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