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Euromonitor International: Insight

• new“Waterless” Products in the Home and Personal Care Space
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  - 25 mins ago, 2 Apr 20, 1:00am -
• newCautívame en segundos (porque mi tiempo de atención es corto)
  The post Cautívame en segundos (porque mi tiempo de atención es corto) appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 13 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 12:01pm -
• newWhat’s Affecting Global Consumers’ Purchasing Behaviour?
  The post What’s Affecting Global Consumers’ Purchasing Behaviour? appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 20 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 5:20am -
• Coronavirus: Weekly Price and Availability Insights, 15th-24th March
  The post Coronavirus: Weekly Price and Availability Insights, 15th-24th March appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 2 days ago, 31 Mar 20, 2:23am -
• How Coronavirus Is Changing the FMCG Landscape in the Middle East
  The post How Coronavirus Is Changing the FMCG Landscape in the Middle East appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 3 days ago, 30 Mar 20, 3:00am -
• Orgullo local, en camino a ser global
  The post Orgullo local, en camino a ser global appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 6 days ago, 27 Mar 20, 11:45am -
• Shift in Consumer Attitudes Drives Sustainable Eyewear
  The post Shift in Consumer Attitudes Drives Sustainable Eyewear appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 6 days ago, 27 Mar 20, 5:00am -
• Which Countries and Cities Are Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus?
  The post Which Countries and Cities Are Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus? appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 7 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 3:00am -

Reuters: Global Markets

• Pfizer walks away from $118 billion AstraZeneca takeover fight

  

  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer abandoned its attempt to buy AstraZeneca for nearly 70 billion pounds ($118 billion) on Monday as a deadline approached without a last-minute change of heart by the...
  - 26 May 14, 11:55am -

The Economist: Buttonwood's

• So long, farewell

  

  Three worries and three signs of hope in the final blog post
  - 8 May 18, 10:45am -
• The flaws of finance

  

  The sector is essential to the economy. But it is rewarded too highly and imposes wider social costs. The penultimate in a series of farewell blogs
  - 1 May 18, 1:19pm -
• Hope I save before I get old

  

  Although we will probably spend 20 years or more in retirement, we don't think about it enough. The third in a series of farewell blogs
  - 27 Apr 18, 10:44am -
• The best books on finance and economics

  

  A great book from the late Hans Rosling heads the list. The second in a series of farewell blogs
  - 25 Apr 18, 11:45am -
• Six precepts every investor should remember

  

  The first in a farewell series of blogs
  - 18 Apr 18, 11:46am -
• The smartphone and the toilet

  

  Technological change has brought great benefits that aren't captured in GDP. That's not new
  - 11 Apr 18, 7:26am -
• An update from Jeremy Grantham

  

  
  - 10 Apr 18, 1:11pm -
• A plan that needs more money

  

  Topping up Social Security is a good idea but 3% contributions won't be enough
  - 9 Apr 18, 9:34am -
• We have seen the future and it twerks

  

  Leadership may be divided into the entertainment figurehead and the policymaking experts
  - 28 Mar 18, 7:26am -
• Markets think trade war is good for “absolutely nothing”

  

  It may turn out to be bluster but it makes the world riskier anyway
  - 23 Mar 18, 9:44am -

The Guardian: Nils Pratley on Finance

• newThe Treasury should be wary of giving a bailout to Virgin Atlantic | Nils Pratley
  Airline’s owners need to dig deep into their own pockets before the state steps in to helpYou have to admire Sir Richard Branson’s tactics. A begging letter from an island-dwelling billionaire doesn’t gain sympathy. A co-ordinated lobbying camp…
  - 11 hours ago, 1 Apr 20, 2:04pm -
• The stock markets have rallied, so is peak panic over?
  In the past fortnight an optimism of sorts has returned but the rebound rests in part on some pretty heroic assumptionsAt the end of the first quarter of the year, stock market investors are counting their losses. The FTSE 100 index has fallen 25% si…
  - 1 day ago, 31 Mar 20, 2:17pm -
• Grounded easyJet faces further turbulence with Stelios negotiations | Nils Pratley
  Founder is embroiled in a row with the airline as he demands it ditches an order for 107 Airbus aircraftGrounding its entire fleet of planes was the easy bit for easyJet. Now comes the tricky task of negotiating in public with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioanno…
  - 2 days ago, 30 Mar 20, 2:16pm -
• UK's Covid-19 help should only go to financially sound businesses
  Debt-laden shopping centre landlord Intu seems to be hoping to get access to government support packageHere’s how the government’s £330bn loan package for British businesses could become very messy: if the state ends up supporting the likes of I…
  - 6 days ago, 26 Mar 20, 2:31pm -
• Banks and business caught out by emergency measures
  The regulators have urged all action necessary to get coronavirus cash to firms, with a veiled a warning if lenders don’t hurry upGet a bloody move on. That was not, obviously, the wording of the exhortation to banks in Wednesday’s joint letter f…
  - 7 days ago, 25 Mar 20, 3:01pm -
• The UK airline industry should first ask their own shareholders for bailouts
  Carriers such as IAG and easyJet have boasted of healthy cash balances – it’s the regional airports more worthy of Treasury helpRishi Sunak is right: airlines should ask their own shareholders for a bailout before they tap up the Treasury for pub…
  - 8 days ago, 24 Mar 20, 2:50pm -
• Rail franchising has hit the buffers. The question is, what replaces it? | Nils Pratley
  Those who said it could only be replaced gradually were wrong. It was done over a weekendRail franchising is being suspended “for a limited period, initially six months,” said the Department for Transport. Are you sure? It seems more likely the w…
  - 9 days ago, 23 Mar 20, 1:50pm -
• Ministers should move fast to protect incomes and employment
  UK looks a laggard as other nations plan to underwrite wage bills and provide basic incomesAnother day, another bazooka. The Bank of England’s cut in interest rates on Thursday to a record low of 0.1% was actually the minor display of armoury. Far…
  - 13 days ago, 19 Mar 20, 4:35pm -
• Why there will be no coronavirus bonanza for investors
  If there’s anything left from the business rates freebie, it’s unlikely to find its way to shareholdersSee all our coronavirus coverageSainsbury’s shares rose 11%; Morrisons’ were 10% better. Even in the midst of crisis, investors think they…
  - 15 days ago, 18 Mar 20, 1:09pm -
• Dixons kept getting the wrong numbers with Carphone
  Hundreds of store closures are brutal logic of sorting out the mess left by a disastrous retail mergerThe timing is appalling, of course. Closing 531 stores, with the loss of 2,900 jobs, in the middle of the coronavirus crisis makes Dixons Carphone l…
  - 16 days ago, 17 Mar 20, 12:54pm -