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...Kevin McCarthy loses three rounds of votes to be US House Speaker The US House of Representatives adjourned after failing to elect a new Speaker, leaving Kevin McCarthy’s political future hanging by a thread...
...Small caps tend to be more volatile than blue-chip stocks both on the way up and down — and could be big medium-term winners if Kolanovic et al are right....
...For example, today we have more than 50,000 [small business] kiosks that work with us....
...However, Bebchuk et al conclude that this throws the ball into the government’s court....
...Recent comments from Rusal America’s chief executive caught our eye as a major indication that clean commodity production is being driven by consumer demand....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...Back in 2010, Andrew Bogan et al explained how this sort of (effective naked) short selling creates a type of rehypothecation effect where the very same shares appear to be owned by many multiples of owners...
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
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...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
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...Tankers have been seized, US and Iranian drones have been shot down, and insurance premiums have gone through the roof for oil shippers in the region....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Its future seems likely to be a much more prosaic business, dominated by large corporations....
...US gas prices also had an eventful week: on Thursday CME Group took “emergency action” to maintain orderly trading on the Nymex commodity exchange, as wild price swings gave rise to fears of forced selling...
...Mauricio Sada-Paz is joining Barclays as global head of electronic fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) product distribution and will start next week, a Barclays spokesman said on Thursday....
...nuclear power industry, and possible investments in the US by the Saudi Basic Industries Corp, Sabic....
...The family behind the media conglomerates 21st Century Fox and News Corp are simultaneously trying to extinguish a crisis at Fox News, while adding a potential US takeover attempt on top of an already agreed...
...The City has prospered in areas such as fixed income, currencies and commodities, and is also active in fintech, private equity, hedge funds and asset management, though it lags well behind the US in those...
...The majority of us are increasingly staying home....
...(Milanovic’s data show that simply by being born in the US, say, rather than in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a person would multiply their income by 93 times.)...
...The net effect can be seen below: According to Greenspan et al, the shifting proportion of workers to retirees will supposedly increase demand for goods and services relative to supply....
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