Hints and tips:
...Stock market bears take this as a portent of doom. But there are good reasons why many asset allocators do not share the same view....
...I got in touch with longtime advocate, Vicky Ferrier, to learn more....
...It was this “betrayal” that led the late banker to alter his wills, attorneys for his widowed wife Vicky have submitted....
...Normally, ministers are not invited to Downing Street on reshuffle day to be sacked: the “walk of doom” past the waiting media is seen to be too humiliating....
...In the doom and gloom of the news cycle, it’s comforting to see an old person with wrinkles symbolising a life well lived. “In American society, we worship youth to the point of detriment,” says Black....
...The predictions of doom for the City of London were always overdone....
...When West plays low, dummy’s J♦ should be played. This wins, and on A♦ declarer’s losing club can be discarded....
...Andrew J Oswald: Young economists have not lived through times like these. I am afraid we all learn by painful experience....
...One of nine siblings, Mr Safra is survived by his wife Vicky, four children and 14 grandchildren....
...because its economy suffered more in the early stages of the pandemic — a fact that Diane Coyle, professor at Cambridge university, ascribed partly to “indecisive or inadequate policy responses”, while Vicky...
...When J Sainsbury, another retailer that has been upfront with investors about its modelling, published its sales scenarios at the end of April, it forecast that Argos sales would fall by a low-teens amount...
...Urban doom has been prophesied many times before, for example after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, but video conferencing over fast internet connections makes it seem more plausible this time around...
...Indeed, it is not all doom and gloom....
...“It was an age when streaming was in its infancy and I just saw doom in that model,” he says. “I wanted to throw myself into a world that was tangible, that was real.”...
...Vicky Pryce: There is little chance of levelling up during 2021....
...But if the boss of the UK’s second largest supermarket chain J Sainsbury has tried to shape how he is seen, then it is as a man who is rarely flustered....
...Alex J Pollock Distinguished Senior Fellow, R Street Institute, Washington, DC, US...
...J Sainsbury boss Mike Coupe defied speculation that he might step down after the failed Asda takeover, but many sector-watchers think he will signal his departure next year....
...Thomas F Huertas Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt, Germany Letter in response to this letter: Efforts to close the ‘doom loop’ are destined to fail / From Alex J Pollock, Washington, DC, US...
...“I sound like an old testament prophet of doom. But you know I’m right.”...
...This sanguine view is contradicted by Lex in the same issue: “the ‘doom loop’ between sovereign bonds and banks …remains intact” (“Sovereign debt/banks: risk, waiting”)....
...Fortunately, the prices of these dividend futures are more likely an artifact of fragmented markets than a genuine forecast of unmitigated doom....
...The main risk they face is a slowdown in UK consumer spending that Mr Martin says has not happened (despite “doom-mongering” by the Financial Times and others)....
...“Over longer time horizons, it should never be all doom and gloom for agencies,” he says....
...Letter in response to this column: Sovereign debt has a pretty poor record / From Alex J Pollock, Washington DC, US...
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