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...While there was much to dislike in prime minister Rishi Sunak’s net zero U-turn last week, new commitments to reform the network should be welcomed. Sunak’s approach is three-pronged....
...Most economists have since revised down their expectations for the so-called dot plot, which aggregates individual forecasts for the fed funds rate through to 2025....
...These are fighting words — and they suggest a U-turn on policy is not in the cards, no matter how much stronger the dollar gets in the near term....
...But Sophie Lu, a China director with research firm Rhodium Group, warns against the “misconception” that Beijing’s responses to short-term inflationary and energy stability problems reflect a U-turn on its...
...I asked him for his view of these events in a discussion last weekend, just before the government’s U-turns on the proposed cut in the top rate of tax....
...A U-turn on immigration last month — another of the DoT’s measures — allowed temporary visas for 5,000 foreign lorry drivers as a stop-gap measure to cope with the seasonal boom in demand, but was dismissed...
..., dot, dot....
...The three dots of her imminent reply appear, then disappear, then don’t reappear. After a minute, he stands and walks home....
...The 1999 dot-comedy had Show Me The Money, a fizzy daytime TV game show about stock punting that was every bit as engaging as that description, whereas the GFC delivered brooding Masters of the Universe...
...Here’s Peel Hunt: Already the nation has taken to its bikes and the DoT seems desperate for that trend to continue, to an almost preacher man extent....
...There’s much, much more both on the main AV blog and on FT dot com’s semi-permanent Coronavirus Live....
...“After the sharp drop in the dots, markets will be looking at just how dovish the FOMC has become,” strategists at TD Securities said....
...“Who R U?” and the prickly political polemic “6 Summers” lurched with low-slung bass grooves....
...Note the SEC's credit roll:The SEC appreciates the assistance of the U.S....
...That record has only been broken by Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” video with 50m views....
...Indeed, Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by Mr Buffett, made a symbolic U-turn in 2016 by betting on Apple, which was comfortably the portfolio’s largest holding at the end of September, at $58bn...
...The “dots” — or the individual officials’ projections for where the Fed’s key rate will be — migrated upwards to suggest an even more aggressive path for interest rates....
...Melania Trump felt so powerfully apathetic, she announced her feelings — “I really don’t care, do U?” — via a message printed on her back....
...There were no dot plots then, and certainly no press conference....
...A U-turn on some of the pledges is, therefore, almost inevitable, unless Boris tries to deliver a much softer form of Brexit in order to protect growth, at the risk of alienating hardliners in his party....
...This statistic was easily rebutted by Bloomberg, which reminded us that the dot-com bubble was inflating at an accelerating pace in 1996....
...When I lie on my bed and open up Google Maps on my cellphone (with the proxy server switched on to evade China’s internet controls), the blue dot tells me I am a vagrant who sleeps on the highway....
...Meanwhile, there was a U-turn from the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats as he said his party was ready to talk to Angela Merkel’s conservatives about forming a government — although he stressed that...
...A polka-dot dress, like a gentleman’s handkerchief, featured detailing inspired by Winston Churchill’s watch chain....
...offers are difficult to accept because of the due diligence into buyers’ backgrounds that is required to ensure their legitimacy and the transparency of their funds: “We can’t do the paperwork, we need to dot...
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