Hints and tips:
...The UAE has become the main international hub for Russian businesses and a significant route for circumventing western sanctions....
...Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster. Bunzl’s revenues, for example, have increased from £2.7bn to £11.8bn over the past 20 years....
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
...(New Yorker) — Erik Brynjolfsson et al paper on using generative AI in customer support (NBER)...
...Then Akrach remembered that he knew somebody at the prefecture, the administrative body governing the Seine-Saint-Denis department. The prefecture controls the police. “Hold on....
...Saudi Arabia is far from hanging up its jersey Yasir al-Rumayyan has had a busy few seasons....
...say Jonas et al. Yes it can! Look! And look! And look! That’s Tesla on an EV of 28.3 times 2025 ebitda, per Morgan Stanley forecasts, which is more expensive than Nvidia’s 25.3 times ebitda....
...US vs Europe: From technology and energy to capital markets and universities, the EU has fallen behind America, and the gap is growing, writes Gideon Rachman....
...Here’s Citi’s Andrew Coombs et al. then: For the European banks, we see less risk of deposit flight and believe they have more liquid balance sheets....
...Ronnie Walker et al. write (our emphasis): — We see two main channels through which a lower response rate can impact the JOLTS job openings statistics....
...Citi’s Ben Nabarro has summed up the complex action vs words balance Andrew Bailey et al. will need to strike at a “tight call” meeting....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...The evidence we have suggests that as an inflation hedge bitcoin is useless (Smales, 2021), mostly useless (Conlon et al, 2021), randomly worse than useless (Matkovskyy and Jalan, 2020), or consistently...
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...Barclays’ economist Philippe Gudin de Vallerin et al explain the evolution of public debt as . . . ... the sum of the primary balance as a percentage of GDP and the debt-to-GDP ratio for the previous period...
...There are three bedrooms and 465 sq m of land, including a terrace for al fresco entertaining....
...There was a time towards the end of the last century, when the wine departments of Sainsbury’s, Tesco, et al strained every sinew to have the best range and to use wine as a lure to get customers into the...
...al)....
...Despairing of a strong US presence, America’s allies in the region (Japan, Australia, New Zealand et al) will agonise about how much they can slow-walk China’s application to join the CPTPP....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...Biden hosts Iraqi prime minister The US president will meet Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at the White House....
...al could borrow influence from her ancestral homeland, she “certainly . . ....
...That was one of the conclusions reached by Ratschen et al in their study “Human-animal relationships and interactions during the Covid-19 lockdown phase in the UK”....
International Edition