Hints and tips:
...According to a company filing, Norway’s central bank’s investment branch is interested in purchasing shares for up to $100mn at the IPO price....
...Bank of Canada: Governor Tiff Macklem will testify to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance about the bank’s latest economic forecasts....
...Howard Marks, Marc Andreessen and Marc Rowan (as well as some people without “Mark/Marc” in their name) — was streamed live for everyone who wanted to see, only the roughly 200 attendees could see Norges Bank...
...Plus the FT’s Owen Walker explains what the exit of HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn means for the bank’s China strategy....
...Viking actually increased the size of its IPO twice before its listing because of strong investor demand....
...I mention this because this week sees one of the big events for fans of all things Viking....
...Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Viking/Knopf) Funder, author of Stasiland, her prizewinning account of the East German secret police, takes six letters written by Eileen O’Shaughnessy...
...The US bond index includes cable group Dish, cinema chain AMC Entertainment, Viking Cruises and the US debt of Altice....
...Many of the most successful equity long/short managers of recent decades — such as Viking, Lone Pine, TCI, Lansdowne, and Egerton — had very different investment styles from the dominant multi-strategy shops...
...They are meant to be patient and permanent, banks of knowledge open to different users and subject to varying interpretations....
...Banks declined to fund his development — so the entire cost has been funded by bin Sulayem personally....
...The Bank of England Museum, for example, is pleasant enough — spacious, elegant, free to enter — but its subject is really the Bank of England itself....
...Some years ago I wrote a book about Swiss banks and Nazi gold....
...Likewise, with bullion lifts in banks. “Who knows what the weather will be this year?” I said. “It doesn’t look like it’ll be the same, does it. But who knows?...
...The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin (Swift/Viking) Born and raised in Beijing, Jin is a professor at the London School of Economics....
...Haruhiko Kuroda as governor of the Bank of Japan....
...(It is on the site of the first Saint-Germain abbey, which was destroyed by the Vikings and then rebuilt in the 10th century.)...
...Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking, which moved out of stocks trading on very high multiples early this year, lost 3.3 per cent up to mid-December....
...Bournville by Jonathan Coe, Viking £20, 368 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Even the weather seems to lose its bearings: great banks of sea fog sweep through in bewildering profusion, turning August into February and back again in minutes....
...tomorrow and Wednesday UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt presents autumn fiscal statement on Thursday COP27 in Egypt comes to a close on Friday Notable, Quotable Taming crypto-beasts: The European Central Bank...
...New York-based Tiger Legatus Capital Management, founded by former Viking Global Investors trader Jesse Ro, told investors in a letter seen by the Financial Times that it would liquidate its fund and return...
...The Bank of England’s research blames inertia, excessive risk aversion after the trauma of the financial crisis and, above all, uncertainty....
...Those Viking financiers clearly have considerable power....
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