Hints and tips:
...“The probability of a recession for us is very high,” said Vincent Mortier, chief investment officer at Amundi, which manages $2.1tn. “The question mark is how deep and how long . . ....
...His paintings include ash from the volcano that vented in 1971-72 on the island of St Vincent, a crisis experienced by members of his family....
...Mr Tucker indicated that economic recovery would come more quickly thanks to recent breakthroughs in vaccine development — although expecting a “V-shaped” recovery remained “beyond stupid”....
...Mid-pandemic, we craved faces, company, connections. And also mystery....
...Wall Street readies for Universal’s headlining act Vincent Bolloré isn’t afraid to play the long game....
...Last year H2O, which was founded by Bruno Crastes and Vincent Chailley in 2010, suffered €8bn of outflows from its funds after the FT detailed the scale of its illiquid bond holdings linked to controversial...
...Job moves Carlos Brito, who transformed a Brazilian regional brewer into the world’s largest beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev, is to step down as chief executive after 15 years....
...Cash has also flooded back into a V-shaped market recovery at a pace that is anything but glacial, or U-shaped in geographical terms....
...He adopted the typographic convention of describing recovery: “The first part . . . will look like a sharp V shape . . . but what does the last part look like?...
...Big Four: cat.rutterpooley@ft.comS4 Capital: matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...The companies declined to comment....
...Brady has deals with a watch brand, a brewer and Ugg slippers, among others. This week, one of Brady's endorsement deals got a bit more complicated....
...Finally, the trend of a weaker dollar and doubts over the US recovery plays well for proponents of European equities versus the S&P 500 that are dubbed “value” companies....
...Already the Four Seasons George V, which had also planned to reopen on September 1, has delayed the big day for another three weeks....
...The old slides would tell us to buy gold (if there were any physical gold available) as well as companies that have quick inventory turns, so prices can be changed quickly....
...The method was devised by the legendary Lazard Frères banker Antoine Bernheim for French industrialist Vincent Bolloré (if you want to go deeper on the brains behind the system, read Bernheim’s interview...
...The brewing industry has become increasingly polarised between the very big and the very small (micro brewers) given scale efficiencies in production, distribution and marketing....
...Brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is a prominent example of take-no-prisoners integrators while companies like US technology group Cisco are more inclined to maintain the identity of the acquired businesses....
...Van Gogh escapesThieves have taken advantage of the shutdown of galleries and museums to steal a prized work by Vincent van Gogh (‘Spring Garden') from the Dutch Singer Laren art museum....
...Matthew Vincent Asos boss Nick Beighton cannot afford more mistakes after its third profit or revenue warning in the space of seven months....
...Superdry: Dads v lads As a prefix, “Dad-” is not meant to denote approval, writes Matthew Vincent....
...Little wonder, then, that brewer Marston’s Taverns business — which mainly sells beer — enjoyed strong trading in the third quarter....
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Marston's: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...FT Opening Quote, with commentary by Matthew Vincent, is your early Square Mile briefing. You can receive it by email at 8am every morning by signing up here....
...Open company results announcement on computer. Highlight top three paragraphs and “outlook” section. Press Ctrl+C. Press Crtl+V. Add share-price forecast: “Market perform”....
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