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Poland summons Ukrainian ambassador over Zelenskiy remarks, Kyiv calls for calm – Reuters.com
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No Hard Feelings filmmakers defend premise even though it’s just a movie, calm down – The A.V. Club
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Dehner Jr.: When Joe Burrow’s ‘involved,’ all is calm on contract front – The Athletic
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Netanyahu tries to calm outcry over minister’s remarks on Palestinians – Yahoo News
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The world needs to ‘calm down’ about the risk of a new COVID variant emerging from China, the country’s former CDC chief says – Fortune
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- New Covid variants in China? Top scientist’s ‘keep calm and carry on’ message Hindustan Times
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D.C.-area forecast: Cold and calm today, then wet tomorrow before an Arctic onslaught
Today (Wednesday): Another chilly one out there as we start from lows this morning in the low 20s to near 30. Plenty of sunshine does the best it can, lifting afternoon highs to the low to mid-40s with light winds. Confidence: High
Tonight: Clouds are on the increase this evening, and then skies become mostly cloudy overnight, as low pressure develops to our south. Light rain or a wintry mix could make it into our southern and western suburbs by 4 a.m. or so. Overnight lows range from the upper 20s to mid-30s. Confidence: Medium-High
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Tomorrow (Thursday): A brief period of wintry mix is possible, mainly north and west of D.C., before 9 a.m. or so, but any significant icy concerns should be confined to north of Frederick and west of Leesburg. For the metro area, it turns into a rainy day, with rain increasing in coverage during the morning and heavy at times through the afternoon into the evening. Afternoon temperatures should rise well into the 40s as winds turn breezy from the southeast late afternoon into evening. Confidence: Medium
Tomorrow night: The rain moves out from west to east during the evening hours, but skies remain cloudy through the night. Temperatures hover in the mid-40s to low 50s thanks to a relatively mild breeze from the south. Confidence: Medium
Gusty rain showers come through early Friday, between approximately 6 a.m. and noon, possibly ending as snow showers. Can’t rule out a light coating on grass, especially north and west of D.C. The main story is crashing temperatures and gusty winds. Most of us start the day in the 40s, but we’re in the 20s to near 30 by around lunchtime, and in the teens to near 20 by late afternoon or evening with clearing skies. Wind gusts from the west, generally in the 30-40 mph range with a few gusts to around 50 mph possible, should dry things out fairly well. But any remaining wet spots will certainly freeze over (what we call a “flash freeze”) during the afternoon into evening. Confidence: Medium
Friday night winds continue to gust near or past 30 mph with mostly clear skies. Overnight lows plummet to the upper single digits to midteens, with wind chills down to the single digits to as low as around minus-5 degrees. Confidence: Medium-High
Christmas weekend is partly to mostly sunny and absolutely frigid. Both days start with morning lows in the upper single digits to midteens, before struggling to afternoon highs in the 20s to near 30. Saturday winds, gusting from the west around 20-30 mph, keep wind chills in the single digits and teens all day long. Not as windy on Sunday, but still enough of a breeze to keep wind chills from rising past the teens to near 20. Confidence: Medium-High
High temperatures should recover to the 30s to near 40 Monday and Tuesday.
A daily assessment of the potential for at least 1 inch of snow in the next week, on a 0-10 scale.
1/10 (→): As the Arctic front blasts through the area early Friday, rain showers could turn to snow showers before ending. We usually don’t see accumulation in situations like this, but can’t rule out a light coating on grass, especially north and west of D.C.
BoE set to further delay sales of government bonds until markets calm
The Bank of England is set to delay the sale of billions of pounds of government bonds in a bid to foster greater stability in gilt markets following the UK’s failed “mini” Budget.
The bank had already delayed the start of its sale of £838bn of gilts bought under its quantitative easing programme from October 6 to the end of this month. It is now expected to bow to investor pressure for a further pause until the market becomes calmer.
The Financial Times has learnt that the bank’s top officials have come to this view after judging the gilts market to be “very distressed” in recent weeks, a view backed by its Financial Policy Committee.
Investors have also warned that the central bank’s plans to begin selling bonds in its portfolio at the end of this month could destabilise markets.
Although 30-year gilt yields have fallen from their recent high of more than 5 per cent to 4.32 per cent on Monday, they remain well above the 3.75 per cent reached before the mini-Budget.
“I’m not sure it’s wise for them to go straight away, because the market’s so fragile at the moment,” said Jim Leaviss, chief investment officer for public fixed income at M&G Investments.
Sandra Holdsworth, UK head of rates at Aegon Asset Management, added: “When they’ve had to support the market so recently, I’m not sure they can go ahead without risking more problems,”
The BoE’s shift is set to put on hold the start of the UK’s unwinding of QE — a process other central banks have begun so as to reduce their swollen balance sheets and increase their freedom of manoeuvre in any future monetary or financial crisis.
BoE officials maintain that inflation control can be implemented by changing interest rates, rather than so-called quantitative tightening, the inverse of QE. At the pace the bank has set, completing QT would take a decade or more.
In Washington on Saturday, Andrew Bailey, BoE governor, confirmed that the MPC would seek to use bank rates rather than asset sales as its main weapon in the inflation fight.
“The MPC is not using the stock of asset holdings as an active tool of monetary policy at present,” he told an audience of central bankers. “The intention was to unwind the stock of QE gradually and predictably, and in a way that wasn’t bound to underlying economic conditions,” he added.
Delaying the sale of bonds would not need a vote from the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. In making its previous postponement last month, the bank judged that turbulent market conditions met the “high bar” it had set to alter the timing without a vote.
The BoE still hopes to unwind £80bn of assets in the first year of running down its balance sheet through a combination of assets maturing and active sales.
The Bank is likely to stick to its policy of allowing maturing bonds to expire without reinvesting their proceeds in other securities. But active sales could provoke further market turmoil, hurting the economy and complicating plans to raise interest rates, ING rates strategist Antoine Bouvet said.
“You don’t want to let anything scupper your chances of hiking rates further, which is their only proven tool for getting inflation down,” Bouvet said. “I’m not sure this market can accommodate the BoE selling as well.”
Some analysts argue that the BoE may need to tweak its plans when it decides to begin quantitative tightening.
Instead of selling roughly equal quantities of short-, medium- and long-term gilts, the central bank should focus on short maturities, said Daniela Russell, HSBC’s head of UK rates strategy. That would allow the long end of the gilt market, which was the focus of the chaotic sell-off that triggered a liquidity crisis at pension funds, to “continue to recover”, she added.
Kim Kardashian looks calm and unruffled out with Saint, eight, after foiled home invasion
Kim Kardashian enjoyed an outing with her son Saint, six, in Los Angeles this Saturday after a scare earlier that day.
An intruder nearly made it into Kim’s Hidden Hills mansion Saturday morning before he was apprehended by security.
Yet she appeared calm and unruffled that day while taking a stroll with Saint, who is one of the four children she shares with her ex-husband Kanye West.
On the go: Kim Kardashian enjoyed an outing with her son Saint, six, in Los Angeles this Saturday after a scare earlier that day
Alarming: An intruder nearly made it into Kim’s Hidden Hills mansion Saturday morning before he was apprehended by security
As Kim was spotted out and about with her eldest son, news broke about the man who was just barely prevented from entering her home.
He mysteriously managed to get through the entrance of her gated community and onto her estate, where the guards halted him mere steps from Kim’s door.
Security were able to subdue the man after a tussle and he was arrested that morning around 11am, sources informed TMZ.
It is not currently known whether Kim or her children – North, nine, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and Psalm, three – were on the property at the time.
In her stride: Yet she appeared calm and unruffled that day while taking a stroll with Saint, who is one of the four children she shares with her ex-husband Kanye West
Use it or lose it: Kim showed off her sensational supermodel legs in a set of revealing workout gear and warded off the autumnal chill with a cozy-looking blue jacket
After being removed from the scene in handcuffs, the intruder – whom insiders say was besotted with Kim – was charged with trespassing and battery.
Apparently sheriff’s deputies in the area were already aware of this particular man, whom they previously spotted in surveillance footage.
Kim and Kanye bought the Malibu compound in December 2014 just months after their Florence wedding, and according to People paid $20 million.
She filed for divorce last February after months of rumors their marriage was on the rocks, and in October 2021 news broke that she was keeping the house.
Pride and joy: As Kim was spotted out and about with her eldest son, news broke about the man who was just barely prevented from entering her home
Trouble: Kim is said to be keeping her distance from Kanye at the moment as he faces down his latest storm of controversy, which began when he debuted his ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirts
The spread has been decorated in an eerily antiseptic style Kim once described as ‘minimal monastery’ while doing Vogue’s 73 Questions.
Her personal bathroom is so massive she threw a spa party in it this summer to celebrate her gal pal Olivia Pierson’s birthday.
The bathroom includes floor-to-ceiling windows offering a dazzling view of a lush lavender forest planted right outside.
Kim is said to be keeping her distance from Kanye at the moment as he faces down his latest storm of controversy, which began when he debuted his ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirts during his show at Paris Fashion Week last month.
Had it: The exes attended North’s basketball game last Friday night but Kim made sure to sit a few seats away from her ex-husband
Inside peek: Kim’s Malibu mansion is decorated in an eerily antiseptic style Kim once described as ‘minimal monastery’ while doing Vogue’s 73 Questions
Swank: Her personal bathroom is so massive she threw a spa party in it this summer to celebrate her gal pal Olivia Pierson’s (second from left) birthday
Lap of luxury: The bathroom includes floor-to-ceiling windows offering a dazzling view of a lush lavender forest planted right outside
He was then suspended from Instagram after posting screen-grabs of a text argument with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs about the t-shirts in which he, Kanye, declared he would ‘use you as an example to show the Jewish people who told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.’
In short order he was thrown off Twitter after he bizarrely wrote on the social media platform that he would ‘go death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE.’
The rapper claimed that he ‘can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also’ and ranted that ‘You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.’
Amid the mounting furor, Kim and Kanye have both attended their children’s sporting events but appeared to avoid any contact with one another.
Palling around: Kanye got a deluge of backlash for unveiling his ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirts at his Paris Fashion Week show, where he is pictured with right-wing pundit Candace Owens
‘Black people are actually Jew also’: He has been thrown off Twitter after he bizarrely wrote on the social media platform that he would ‘go death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE’
The exes attended North’s basketball game last Friday night but Kim made sure to sit a few seats away from her ex-husband.
A source revealed to DailyMail.com that Kim deliberately ‘avoided him’ at the game and ‘even moved her car’ to retain her distance from him.
Kim’s failed home invasion comes just a couple of months after a bombshell interview with one of the perpetrators of her infamous 2016 Paris robbery.
Yunis Abbas is one of 12 elderly men arrested for the burglary, in which Kim was bound and gagged at gunpoint.
The band of thieves now known as the ‘grandpa robbers’ plundered $10 million worth of jewelry from her luxurious hotel suite.
‘Since she was throwing money away, I was there to collect it, and that was that,’ Abbas told VICE News, adding with a chuckle: ‘Guilty? No, I don’t care.’
He also divulged details of the robbery itself, alleging that Kim’s ‘secretary’ attempted to call help – but dialed 911 despite being in France.
When asked about celebrities posting about their valuables online, Abbas argued: ‘They should be a little less showy towards people who can’t afford it.’
When asked about celebrities posting about their valuables on the internet, Abbas defiantly argued: ‘They should be a little less showy towards people who can’t afford it. For some people, it’s provocative.’
Kim reportedly experienced flashbacks after the robbery, during which she feared she might be raped or murdered.
She told David Letterman the experience left her so ‘paranoid’ for a year that she would have ‘half a dozen’ guards constantly posted at her home.
Last year, five years after the robbery, she revealed she was still so scarred by the incident that she no longer keeps any jewelry at home even in a safe.
She insisted ‘no expensive items ever come’ to her home and ‘As far as jewelry, if I’m wearing something, it’s borrowed’ or ‘It’s fake.’
Credit Suisse pays down debt to calm investor fears
ZURICH, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) will buy back up to 3 billion Swiss francs ($3 billion) of debt, the embattled Swiss bank said on Friday, making a show of strength as it seeks to reassure investors after a tumultuous week.
The move trims the bank’s debts and is an attempt to bolster confidence after steep falls in its stock price and bonds. Unsubstantiated rumours that its future was in doubt have swirled on social media amid concern it may need to raise billions of francs in fresh capital.
One of the largest banks in Europe, Credit Suisse is embarking on a radical turnaround after losing more than $5 billion from the collapse of investment firm Archegos last year, when it also had to suspend client funds linked to failed financier Greensill.
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Bank executives spent last weekend reassuring large clients and investors about its financial strength, seeking to dispel speculation about its future.
CEO Ulrich Koerner also told staff in a memo that it has sufficient capital and liquidity. read more
But his words only fuelled rumours about the bank, as a social media storm gathered pace, triggering a sell-off of its stock.
The bank said the debt buyback would “allow us to take advantage of market conditions to repurchase debt at attractive prices”.
Investors took heart. Credit Suisse shares gained as much as 3% in early trading on Friday, while the price of its euro-denominated bonds rose.
“It’s an opportunistic move to take advantage of market conditions that might be reassuring to some investors,” said Vontobel analyst Andreas Venditti. “If bought below par, a gain results that will increase capital slightly.”
TROUBLED CHAPTER
Earlier this week, in an unusual step, the Swiss National Bank, which oversees the financial stability of systemically important banks in Switzerland, said it was monitoring the situation at Credit Suisse.
Banks are deemed systemically important if their failure would undermine the Swiss economy and financial system.
The move is reminiscent of a multi-billion-euro debt buyback by Deutsche Bank in 2016, when it faced a similar crisis and doubts over its future.
Dixit Joshi, a former Deutsche executive, has recently joined Credit Suisse as finance chief.
Zuercher Kantonalbank said the bonds are currently trading at a high discount, which allows Credit Suisse to cut debt at a low cost. Analyst Christian Schmidiger said the move was also a “signal that Credit Suisse has sufficient liquidity”.
Credit Suisse said it was making a 1 billion euro cash tender offer in relation to eight euro or pound sterling denominated senior debt securities and another offer to buy back 12 U.S. dollar denominated senior debt securities for up to $2 billion.
The developments unfolded after sources recently told Reuters that Credit Suisse was sounding out investors for fresh cash, approaching them for the fourth time in around seven years.
Under a restructuring launched by Chairman Axel Lehmann, the bank envisions shrinking its investment bank to focus even more on its flagship wealth management business. Chiefly, he hopes to close a troubled chapter for the bank and repair its reputation.
Over the past three quarters alone, losses have added up to nearly 4 billion Swiss francs. Given the uncertainties, the bank’s financing costs have surged.
The bank is due to present its new business strategy on Oct. 27, when it announces third-quarter results.
Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service expects losses for Credit Suisse to swell to $3 billion by year-end, Moody’s lead analyst on the bank told Reuters on Thursday. read more
The bank has also said it is looking to sell its upmarket Savoy Hotel, one of the best-known hotels in Zurich. read more
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