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...Glenn Hubbard was chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers under George W Bush from 2001 to 2003. He has impeccable pro-free-market credentials....
...Bank stocks rose in after-market trading, with Wells Fargo and Citigroup among the biggest gainers, up 3.5 per cent and 2.8 per cent, respectively....
...China and the Future of Globalization: The Political Economy of China’s Rise Grzegorz W. Kolodko, I.B....
...Chart via Trustnet: To markets then, and BT Group’s leading the FTSE 100 gainers at pixel....
...Hargreaves Lansdown’s leading the FTSE 100 gainers on a decent trading update....
...Onto corporate, and Ashtead’s leading the FTSE 100 gainers after an update on its April year end was no worse than expected....
...Bookmaker Flutter’s leading the FTSE 100 gainers after an okay Q1 trading update....
...● Liquidity: the company estimates that at the low point (post W/C outflow, pre reopening) it would have retained over £60m of headroom against facilities....
...Here’s some of the working: [W]e assume Tagrisso must have been at least 40% more efficacious than placebo, to have succeeded at what we assume is a 70% interim....
...● NMC Health led the FTSE 100 gainers after the hospital operator said it had completed the formation of a Saudi Arabian joint venture almost a year after it was announced....
...Miners such as Glencore, up 4.4 per cent to 147.9p, led the gainers on relatively thin volume....
...C&W rose 6.3 per cent to 68.7p....
...Sage was among Monday’s gainers on speculation that the software maker is back on the acquisition trail. Merrill Lynch turned positive on Sage, which added 1.8 per cent to 588p....
...Pre-results optimism meant W m Morrison was among Monday’s sharpest gainers. Ahead of full-year results on Thursday, Morrison added 1.1 per cent to 208.2p....
...W Resources gains after completion of tungsten plant Shares in W Resources climbed 11 per cent on Friday to close at 0.925p after the company completed the construction of a tungsten and tin plant in southwest...
...In the Financial Review, David Carter, Betty Simkins and W Gary Simpson found a correlation between firm value and diversity on the board....
...It guessed that Vodafone could sell a 10 per cent stake for about $21bn, possibly offsetting the tax bill against US losses at its C&W Worldwide division....
...Hammerson was among London’s biggest gainers on Tuesday amid a revival of sector consolidation talk....
...Among the gainers, Arm Holdings rose 5.6 per cent to 675.5p as upgrades followed the chip designer’s third-quarter results on Tuesday....
...Kenmare Resources was among the gainers on Monday as a rebound for the mining sector helped lift the FTSE 100 to a six-month high....
...C&W Worldwide jumped 7.8 per cent to 37.8p after Orbis Investment Management, its 16 per cent shareholder, dropped its opposition to Vodafone’s 38p takeover offer....
...Among the gainers, J Sainsbury rose 2.3 per cent to 281p as Royal Bank of Scotland moved to “buy” ahead of the supermarket’s quarterly update due Wednesday....
...C&W Communications rallied 7.8 per cent to 39¼p on better than expected half-year earnings....
...C&W Worldwide rallied 3.5 per cent to 17¼p as chief executive Gavin Darby led a roadshow of leading shareholders....
...Financial stocks, which suffered some of the sharpest falls on eurozone sovereign debt concerns, were the most significant gainers of the session....
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