Hints and tips:
...Despite a sell-off in technology stocks last year and UK market rally, the FTSE 100 trades at a much lower valuation relative to company profits than Germany’s DAX or the S&P 500 in the US....
...As for the metal itself, S&P Global Platts suggested in July that Japan, South Korea, India and Vietnam were all “likely beneficiaries” from increased Chinese demand....
...But a buyer of CLOs that is not a bank is not beholden to a bank’s capital requirements (the same point applies to insurers and Solvency II)....
...TUI has the potential to return to 2019 customer volumes relatively soon aided by Thomas Cook business still out there somewhere....
...Swiss drugmaker Roche has named Thomas Schinecker as head of its diagnostics business, replacing Roland Diggelmann, who left the role last August....
...“Mifid II has certainly been a part of it.”...
...Smart reads Tech check Investors are bracing for a reshuffle at S&P Dow Jones Indices that includes reclassifying seven tech stocks representing roughly a fifth of the S&P 500 information technology sector...
...But Thomas Miller’s Mr Philips says the wealth manager has recently begun switching back to active funds....
...The company’s credit rating was last week upgraded from A+ to AA- by S&P....
...Since World War II, our societies have taken promising steps in this regard. It is our responsibility to ensure the continued progress of that civilizing trend....
...Horticultural historian Ulysses P Hedrick named Benjamin K Bliss as the first person to establish a primarily mail-order seed business and the first to introduce colour to the catalogue in 1853....
...Furthermore, it stared straight into the face of St James’s Palace, as though the slimy politician were trying to eclipse the king, Thomas Wolsey-style....
...Judge Thomas P Griesa has come down very hard on the idea of Argentina swapping its restructured bonds out of New York law into local law, in order to avoid paying holdouts alongside them....
...The lawyers soon found themselves facing tough questions in court, although Judge Thomas P. Griesa ruled that the memo remains privileged....
...Their shortcomings led millions of people into dire poverty and created a fertile environment for World War II....
...Secondly, P & I Clubs based in London have long mutually insured and pooled risks which insurance intermediaries are unwilling or unable to take, and for 135 years a service provider, Thomas Miller, has...
...“It’s not necessarily about product simplification but making sure your products are understood,” says Mr Thomas....
...Back to the top Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It MattersBy Richard P. Rumelt In 1805, England had a problem....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...In other words, forget the pro-cyclicality of Basle II. Here we have potential for a hormonal boom and bust....
...“Singapore has been our hub serving India and south-east Asia for some time,” says Thomas Schiller, executive managing director Asia Pacific with S&P....
...Supposedly both St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas were keen on the fancy, though not perhaps on their most saintly days....
...She also praises new collections from G.P&J. Baker, a company with a similarly historic and extensive archive....
...Nick Thomas Robert Kagan: It’s hard to say, and of course it still depends on the outcome....
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