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...O Over-rule When an umpire reverses a call by a line judge, aka how umpires prove they’re awake. P Passing shots Things of beauty that have more or less killed off serve-and-volley tactics....
...Headline NFP at +2,509k. Consensus -8,000k. Unemployment rate of 13.3 per cent versus the expected 19.8 per cent....
...advantage tonight: being a woman (Timothy P Carney, Washington Examiner) How Trump rides on waves of other people’s money (Tim O’Brien, Bloomberg) Political sideshow (Kevin Kal Kallaugher) Today’s poll...
...John Hawksworth, chief economist, PwC We expect UK growth to slow from around 2% in 2016 to around 1-1.5% in 2017....
...Sanders....
...Individuals – winners of Enterprise Promotion award Mrs Christine Atkinson Mr Timothy Barnes Mr Eric Binns Professor Mark Hart Mr Wray Irwin Mr Guy Mucklow Miss Ann Stonehouse Mrs Jayne Taggart...
...US futures suggest Wall Street’s S&P 500 will gain 2 points to 1,411, writes the FT’s Global Markets seducer Jamie Chisholm....
...Australian S&P 200 pared losses of about 0.3% to be 0.1% lower, after the unemployment rate unexpected fell from 5.4% to 5.2%....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...At 2 p.m., Bernanke met with Raymond Dalio and others from the world of finance. Dalio managed the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, with $120 billion under its control....
...The spread was at 113 basis points at 2:38 p.m. London time, from 71.5 basis points at the end of September....
...Latin America was the best-performing region, with like-for-like revenues down only 1.2 per cent, followed by the US, where third-quarter revenues fell 6.1 per cent compared with the same period last year...
...Earlier, Japan’s Nikkei 225 edged up 0.3 per cent to a 15-month high while in Shanghai shares rebounded 1.2 per cent and Hong Kong climbed 2.1 per cent....
...At the end of July, the S&P 500 equity composite was below 1,000 points and the price of crude oil loitered below $70 a barrel....
...An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain Or …60 Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always By John O’Farrell Doubleday Press, £18.99 This satirical romp through 20th-century Britain focusing...
...Last month, J.P....
...On Wednesday, stock investors expressed confidence in Fannie's management changes, with its share price rising 2.2 per cent to $71.92 at close of trading....
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