Hints and tips:
...In the UK, we have never had such a poor record, including abrupt U-turns, in macroeconomic management....
...Democracies wonder about the future of freedom. The world weighs the future of China. Gloom is not, however, destiny. Crises test the resilience of nations....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...Securities and Futures Commission, Latvian Financial and Capital Market Commission, Malta Financial Services Authority, Mauritius Financial Services Commission, Mexican Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores...
...Guntram Wolff, Director, Bruegel The European Parliament election matters as it will be crucial for who becomes the next European Commission president and who will be the future commissioners....
...But effects on U.K. only marginally positive — and the fiscal expansion may not happen....
...And with so much uncertainty about the UK’s future trading relationship, these profits are unlikely to translate into stronger investment spending very quickly....
...Francis Breedon, Professor, QMUL Looks likely — low commodity prices and improving prospects elsewhere give a good backdrop Annika Breidthardt, European Commission Growth in 2016 is forecast at 2.4% and...
...Market sentiment had been better in earlier trading following a rebound on Wall Street. The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent, helped by some encouraging earnings reports, after losing 2.7 per cent last week....
...The transaction comes amid a growing appetite among the commodities trading houses for Australia....
...witness testified during an insider trading trial....
...The FDIC plans to meet on December 10 to consider the rule aimed at banning proprietary trading, which involves banks trading from their own accounts....
...(Financial Times) “J.P....
...(Financial Times) “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is so cash-starved that the agency is being forced to delay cases, shelve certain probes and decided not to file charges against two former traders...
...US index futures suggest Wall Street’s S&P 500 will add six points to 1,554, leaving the benchmark less than 1 per cent shy of a record close writes the FT’s Global Markets yogi Jamie Chisholm....
...(Financial Times)(Washington Post) Asian shares and US futures slumped on news of the ‘Plan B’ collapse, while the Yen rose....
...slides: Marks & Spencer is poised to reveal its worst quarterly trading for three years this week, heaping pressure on Marc Bolland, the chief executive, at Tuesday’s annual meeting - £500m Birds Eye...
...Expect less of a U-turn than several ‘S’ shaped wriggles. Ray Barrell, Brunel University: A sustained recovery looks less likely now than it did a year ago because the world looks weaker....
...The Philadelphia semiconductor index gained 1.4 per cent while the S&P technology index rose 0.5 per cent, the strongest gainer along with energy of all 10 major S&P indices....
...A judge in Regina v....
...In short, unless foreign boards of trade become completely subservient to the whims and regulations of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission their contracts will be null and void in the US....
...However, as the article also points out, the trouble is that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is still divided on the matter....
...Sentinel, a little-known US money manager with $1.5bn in assets, told the Commodity Futures Trading Commission it would halt redemptions....
...Late on Friday, data on short positions, sales of stock by speculators, from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission indicated the largest holding of bearish positions on the S&P since March 2004....
...Christopher J....
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