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...Ceci n’est pas une outlook report, says Man Group. Bonds! Bonds! Bonds! says Pimco....
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...At the moment, 64 separate carbon pricing initiatives cover about 21.5 per cent of emissions globally, according to figures from the World Bank....
...To get there, Ant is building Alipay+ into a universal QR code, so a Korean user of KakaoPay e-wallet or a Malaysian user of Touch ‘n Go e-wallet can pay for a taxi in Singapore by scanning the Alipay+ code...
...N R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
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...“But places like the George V [in Paris], they like bands to come in and bash it up, as long as they pay for it,” he adds, taking a ruminative puff on his e-cigarette....
...That, in turn, has softened the coronavirus economic crash in March and helped spark a subsequent rebound — creating a growth chart that looks like the “b” and “n” shape in the shorthand sign for “bank”....
...Amount of money raised so far: Holvi raised a total of €4.3m between 2011 and 2015. Valuation at latest fundraising: N/A Major shareholders: In 2016 Spanish banking group BBVA acquired Holvi....
...In the current environment this is a big one, as shown here: Vix, % (LHS) v Vix volatility curve, %, 6th minus 1st contract (RHS) Now, the extreme shifts across markets and the response from central banks...
...Amount of money raised so far: €27m Valuation at latest fundraising: N/a Major shareholders: Industrifonden, Velocity Capital, UniCredit, Nordea, Swedbank, Frumtak Ventures, Íslandsbanki, Kjölfesta There...
...Mueller....
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...Blog bits n bobs Izzy took us through how central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might be used as a kind of digital stimulus; a new tool for unconventional monetary policy at a time of unconventional happenings...
...But if the veteran banker was guilty of over-optimism when predicting the fortunes of Barclays five years ago, he is striking a cautious note now. “I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says....
...The energy transition strategy update in March is key to becoming more positive on the stock, absent a V-shaped recovery for their O&G customers. Glaring value?...
...vote of no confidence from the bond market in the idea of a V shaped economic recovery....
...Airbus – cut to N from OW; remove from AFL: AIR looks in a better position than Boeing, which is also dealing with the MAX grounding and a weak balance sheet....
...Amount of money raised so far: $51.7m Valuation at latest fundraising: N/A Major shareholders: Balderton Capital, Target Global, LocalGlobe and Taavet Hinrikus....
...Valuation and recommendation: HSBC’s shares have fallen by 42% year-to-date versus a 51% fall in the average share price of the other mainstream UK banks....
...Jay Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, told Donald Trump in a 30-minute meeting with the president that the central bank would continue to make monetary policy in a “non-political” manner....
...For Edward Luce, Mr Mueller’s refusal to play star witness was aided by a disorganised flurry of questions from Democratic lawmakers, which enhanced the impression of a party in disarray....
...For S&N it all boils down to 2020 adjusted trading profit of $1,218bn to US$1.241bn versus a consensus of $1.243bn, so hardly a warning at all....
...Analysts at TD Securities “think a minority government is likely” and that domestic data are a more influential driver of the Canadian dollar, “though a break below C$1.30 might be a step too far”....
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