Page 3 - Capital Note News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Print this article Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan, N.Y., October 26, 2016. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: the history of Nuance’s Dragon brand, J&J vaccine halted, Jack Ma capitulates, and W. Brian Arthur on “Economics in Nouns and Verbs.” To sign up for the Capital Note, follow this link. Dragon 2.0 Yesterday, Microsoft announced a $16 billion acquisition of language-processing firm Nuance ...

‘Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold’ — Selling the Biden/Yellen Tax Cartel Andrew Stuttaford © Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 29, 2021. At the time of the establishment of Britain’s National Health Service, Aneurin Bevan, Labour’s Health Minister, faced serious opposition from, among others, top doctors unenthusiastic at the prospect of having to rely solely on the state for their income, a potentially dangerous challenge t...

(Larry Downing/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: FOMC meeting, tech stocks tumble, Treasurys climb, and the risks of forward guidance. FOMC Meeting Investors are once again testing the adage, “Don’t fight the Fed.” The Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee (FOMC), which is holding a press conference this afternoon, has for months signaled that it does not intend to raise interest rates until at least 2024. But since February, yields on U.S. Treasury notes have moved up, implying three rate hikes in 2023. Advert...

Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: China’s tech crackdown, Dalio’s dollar doom, Ashworth’s response, and a look at China’s advantages in entrepreneurship. CCP Comes Down on Tech CEOs In October 2020, Jack Ma delivered mild criticisms of China’s financial regulators at a business conference. Within a week, the tech billionaire’s payments company, Ant Financial Group, saw its IPO halted after Ma was summoned to a meeting with financial regulators. Shares of Tencent and Alibaba, the country...

A “storm” swept through the US government bond market on Friday, sending a key measure of long-term borrowing costs to the highest level since last February. Treasuries dropped in overnight trading after a large sale of long-dated bond futures in Asia, according to people familiar with the matter. Yields on the benchmark 10-year note, a key marker across global asset markets, jumped to 1.63 per cent, having traded around 1.53 per cent the day before. Analysts said the scale of the move underscored how jittery the $21tn market had become against the backdrop of a more robust economic rebou...