Hints and tips:
...It will have to fight for investment dollars and new listings and quite possibly carve out a new raison d’être, perhaps more domestic or regionally focused, than in the past....
...“Were it not for the strike impact, payrolls would have been closer to 170k, but you’d also have to boost last month’s 150k up to around 180k as well,” said Thomas Simons, US economist at Jefferies....
...China’s benchmark CSI 300 index of Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed stocks is down more than 2 per cent this year, compared with a rise of almost 14 per cent for the S&P 500....
...But as Richmond Fed president Thomas Barkin told CNBC yesterday: I’m sceptical that price setters at this point are going back to pre-Covid . . ....
...But it’s still interesting, and if you want to get into the weeds we’d highly recommend checking out the full paper....
...“Frankly, I’d probably just average out these last two months given the volatility,” he writes....
...Well, you’d think so, and I later talked to Cath Bishop, former Olympic rower and conflict diplomat (yes, really), now a leadership and organisational consultant....
...Separate walkouts will happen at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust in south London and the Yorkshire Ambulance Trust after Unite union members rejected their latest pay offer....
...So far this year, shares of PepsiCo have outperformed the S&P 500....
...We’d love to put money to work. We have a lot of cash and so do our peers. All-in yields are as good as they’ve been in a decade....
...I guess I’d say it’s a five,” said Neil Bradley, chief policy officer at the Chamber. “It didn’t cut taxes; it raised taxes, but it’s a lot better than Build Back Better.”...
...The City ought to take corporate corruption overseas more seriously, the FT’s Helen Thomas argues....
...When Askew advertises jobs, like sommeliers or maître d’-type roles that can pay up to £35,000 a year, there is a chronic shortage of qualified applicants in the UK....
...Step forward Thomas Gottstein. The safe pair of hands, really. He is, of course, Swiss. He'd been in charge of the Universal Bank here, which I guess is the most boring and stable part....
...Whatever your view, we’d love to hear it. As ever, we’re at moralmoneyreply@ft.com....
...In 2015 alone, its international assets ballooned by more than 300 per cent, according to S&P....
...That is, if insurers are allowed to raise prices, noted John Iten, an analyst at S&P Global Ratings. California, he pointed out, has regulated limits on insurance pricing....
...Samsung Electronics, Xiaomi, and Alibaba were among the lowest scoring groups in the ranking, all receiving a D or D-....
...One said they’d never seen an M&A process like it, and another said “it’s all getting pretty weird”....
...The International Maritime Research and Development Board (IMRB) is a $5bn programme, governed by the IMO, to co-ordinate and fund applied R&D to catalyse the introduction of zero-carbon fuels and technologies...
.... hotel (Wall Street Journal) S&P’s $44bn IHS deal set to win EU antitrust approval (Reuters)...
...I’d be really surprised if we got back to 500,000 [gains] before November.”...
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...A very slippery area, where I’d be keen to hear your arguments: email them to me at Robert.Armstrong@ft.com. Is competition bad for stocks?...
...The Schiller P/E is now at 37: There are still not as many individual observations on the right side as you’d like in order to be really confident in what will happen next....
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