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...“With the Fed so far endorsing current market pricing of three cuts starting in June, investors continue to see the glass half full on the soft landing narrative.”...
...The hard landing first became a soft one, and now looks more like a brief touchdown for refuelling. Even Ray Dalio is sounding somewhat optimistic....
...BlackRock has turned bullish on US stocks, upgrading them to overweight from neutral on expectations that the world’s largest economy is set for a “soft landing”....
...The narrative has indeed changed, landing at Chep Lap Kok may not be as exciting as the old Kai Tak airport, but driving across the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, the world’s longest sea crossing connecting...
...The Apollo moon landing in 1969 was estimated to have drawn between 125mn and 150mn US viewers when the population was just over 200mn, compared with over 330mn today....
...“With the Fed so far endorsing current market pricing of three [interest rate] cuts starting in June, investors continue to see the glass half full on the soft landing narrative.”...
...“The market is way weighted to a very soft landing. And when you look at the pattern of facts the last three or four years, it’s hard for me to see it’s going to be that simple,” Solomon said....
...The proof of the pudding will have to be in the eating. Ultimately, the biggest risk to PC CLOs is plain old sloppy underwriting — same as the rest of private credit....
...Sunday’s game in Las Vegas is the second most-watched US television broadcast in history, behind only the Apollo moon landing in 1969, which is estimated to have drawn between 125mn and 150mn US viewers...
...Jaxa had said the spacecraft, known as Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim), touched down on the lunar surface about 55m east of its targeted landing site — a successful demonstration of its precision-landing...
...But it is the UK that offers hope of a softer landing — testament to hard-learned lessons of the past....
...Banks and the soft landing Is it finally safe to buy bank stocks?...
...Apart from jobs and consumption, another force that will affect the chances of a soft landing is commodities....
...Until this week, the UK economy looked increasingly set for a smooth “soft landing”, with inflation dropping sharply and early signs of growth picking up....
...If recent history is any guide, the probability of the Federal Reserve steering the US economy to a safe landing with interest rates above 5 per cent is . . . not great....
...Also in September, Ukraine said it had destroyed a sophisticated Russian S-400 air defence system covering the whole of the peninsula and damaged a landing ship and submarine in separate strikes....
...First economists dialled those forecasts back to a “soft landing”, now they are talking about “no landing”....
...strains — that raise the possibility that the landing won’t be soft, if there is one....
...the world’s first commercial landing on the Moon failed in April....
...the SEC’s X account was hacked....
...“Now as we look towards 2024 there is justifiable optimism that central banks will actually achieve the ‘soft landing’ they have been working towards with inflation under control and continued, albeit lower...
...(Vox) — This is not a soft landing (Apollo Academy) — A conspiracy theory for Japan’s lost decades (Russell Clark) — From Riches to Rags: Causes of Fiscal Deterioration Since 2001 (Committee for a Responsible...
...Baked into the forecasts from the Federal Open Market Committee is a belief that the US economy will achieve its soft landing, with inflation returning to the Fed’s goal, growth slowing only mildly and unemployment...
...The Competition and Markets Authority ruled that a decision by the Civil Aviation Authority, the industry regulator, to lower landing fees at the UK hub was “not wrong on most of the issues”....
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