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...We haven’t mentioned the B-word yet. Bonds....
...Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism by Diana B Henriques Random House £25/$30, 480 pages Brooke Masters is the FT’s US financial editor Join...
...Its price-to-earnings ratio is 25, not far from the broad S&P 500 ratio of 20....
...Not a great look when the S&P 500 equity index was up about 3.4 per cent over the same period. It marks yet another disappointing episode for the hedge fund industry....
...Company Q3 Wednesday Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, European Central Bank governing council member Gabriel Makhlouf, Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc, Bank of Ireland chief executive Myles O’...
...While Sudan only produces around 50,000 barrels a day South Sudan produces 140,000 b/d according to S&P Global Platts....
...(While there’s little public information on the Bermudian entity B.UK Limited, interested DD readers can learn a few more details from the Paradise Papers leak.)...
...It was one of the biggest jumps in the S&P 500 that we’ve seen in quite some time....
...In equity markets, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.4 per cent lower, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gave up 1.1 per cent....
...Lebanon, which was then in the grip of a civil war, with the aim of writing about the “holiday pleasures of Beirut and its environs” for Vanity Fair magazine, he found himself held at gunpoint by a teenaged guard...
...John Brady, managing director at futures brokerage RJ O’Brien, said the bearish bets, including many that expire on Friday, were being executed to guard against a potential further Treasury market sell-off...
...Lex surmised that high energy prices figured in P&O Ferries’ deplorable sacking of 800 British sailors without notice and their replacement with cheap, foreign contract staff....
...Black British Artist Grant, an annual programme giving a leg up to figures within the arts and addressing diversity and visibility across the creative sector. a-cold-wall.com; community.samuel-ross.com B...
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...Markets were caught off guard too, with the dip in the S&P 500 accompanied by a 5.3 per cent drop in the Nasdaq....
...Hedge funds overall have shed 5.6 per cent, far less than the S&P 500’s 20 per cent drop, bolstered by strong performing quant and macro funds....
...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....
...The recent travails of P&O Ferries may have spooked some shareholders, though any comparisons would be somewhat spurious....
...The staid credit analysts at S&P suspect the former....
...In a recent column for the FT, she argued that this legal change could have avoided this year’s debacle at P&O Ferries, which sacked nearly 800 workers to replace them with cheaper agency staff....
...P&O Ferries dramatically sacked 800 sailors with immediate effect yesterday, bringing chaos to Britain’s ports, as it argued the company was no longer a “viable business”....
...So I looked at a map and secured myself a writing gig in Bolivia, situated between A and B....
...Standing in an arch atop Isfahan’s historic Si-o-Se Pol bridge, Farzad peers down at the water gushing below, recalling how days earlier the river bed was dry and its banks empty of people....
...Moody’s followed S&P Global and Fitch in withdrawing credit ratings for Russian entities....
...Greg Abbott, Texas’ governor, said last week that 99 per cent of power plants have now made the investments to guard against freezing weather....
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