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...Power and Progress: Our Thousand Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (John Murray/PublicAffairs) Technological progress does promise a better future....
...Late last month, S&P scored a big acquisition with its $44bn purchase of IHS Markit, which will help the credit rating company incorporate emissions data into ESG scores (S&P acquired RobecoSAM’s ESG ratings...
...“My friends, I am not a communist,” said Boris Johnson....
...Karen Ward, an analyst at JPMorgan, writes in the FT that the European Central Bank will soon unveil green monetary policy moves. “Why do we think this?...
...RBC Fundamental View: Frasers has a strong position in UK mass market sports retailing and has freehold asset backing (c.£1bn), plus a now c.£200mn stake in Hugo Boss....
...However, with limited upside to our price target on c.15x P/E 2020E, we downgrade to Hold....
...Overall the measure should save c. EUR15bn-20bn of ET1 or c. 20-30bp on average for the banks we cover. We continue to believe that the sector has c. EUR300bn of excess capital above SREP and c....
...As a result, Ashtead now sees PBT for the financial year ending Apr-20 to be c£1,050m (-10% vs. previous consensus c£1,170m)....
...Here’s a tweet from cartoonist Ben “PixelatedBoat” Ward: The problem there is that it’s more of an observation than a joke....
...Quick Hits — What’s on the markets radar The S&P 500 earnings season picks up the pace this week and what stands out so far is the pressure on margins....
...a pace near 6 per cent....
...France has set the pace for boardroom diversity in Europe, beating its target of having women hold 40 per cent of CAC 40 directorships by 2017, according to a recent report by European Women on Boards and...
...This optimism is reflected in the 40 per cent jump in the S&P pharmaceuticals index over the past year, compared with a 7 per cent rise in the broader S&P 500....
...One of the catchphrases of The Pub Landlord, the Little Englander persona of comedian Al Murray, is: “sahnd as an English pahnd”....
...& Johnson....
...Most investors appear to share his optimism: the S&P pharmaceuticals index is up 29 per cent in the past year. So why are some people unconvinced?...
...The US drugmaker is vying with rivals including Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie for share of a market forecast to reach at least $20bn of annual sales by the end of this decade....
...Warner Senator Patty Murray Senator Maria Cantwell Senator John D. Rockefeller IV Senator Joe Manchin III Senator Herb Kohl Senator Ronald H. Johnson Senator John Barrasso...
...Industry peers such as Johnson & Johnson, Zimmer and Stryker have also been linked with S&N over the years, though all would face competition hurdles....
...Reporting by Chris Bryant in Vienna, Andrew Ward in Stockholm, Mark Mulligan in Madrid, John Murray Brown in Dublin, Kerin Hope in Athens and Robin Harding in Washington...
...The meeting adjourned at 1:35 p.m. on March 18, 2009....
...Karen Ward, HSBC The economic outlook will certainly darken before it improves because job shedding has only just begun....
...One of the more useful and prolific volunteers was W.C....
...They might also look to the UK, where The Guardian is owned by The Scott Trust, founded in 1936 by the sons of C.P. Scott, its former proprietor....
...SPORT Compiled by David Owen Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster By Nick Ward and Sinead O’Brien A&C Black £16.99, 186 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Astonishingly vivid...
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