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US property was already an attractive opportunity fro European investors, from a performance standpoint, and now it's getting better. From today's Reuters article:
BENGALURU (Reuters) - 6 Aug 2020 - The dollar’s supremacy of well over two years has turned sharply and the current downward trend will continue into next year on expectations the U.S. economic recovery is flagging, especially compared to Europe, buttressing the euro, a Reuters poll showed.
A surge in coronavirus cases across several U.S. states and some data pointing to an economic recovery losing steam pushed the dollar index .DXY down 4.1% in July, its biggest monthly percentage fall in a decade.
That was reflected in the latest positioning data, which showed speculators increased their bets against the dollar to the highest in nine years and at the same time raised their bets in favor of the euro to the highest on record.
Read more here: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-forex-poll-dollar/u-s-dollar-headed-lower-in-retreat-against-the-euro-reuters-poll-idUSKCN25200W
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San Francisco, CA, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VoiceBase, the leading AI-Powered Voice Analytics company, today announced a strategic partnership with ThoughtSpot, the leading Search & AI-Driven Analytics platform, to revolutionize how enterprises gain faster insights from their voice data through innovative search capabilities.
Voice Analytics has been empowering frontline workers in contact centers and organizations for years, but 86% of businesses report that they need better technology-enabled insights to really gain value from their data. The value of these analytics can be transformational for enterprises. In fact, “By 2025, AI for video, audio, vibration, text, emotion and other content analytics will trigger major innovations and transformations in 75% of Fortune 500 global enterprises” according to Gartner’s Top 10 Trends in Data and Analytics, 2020 report.
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Commenting on two further resignations from the easyJet board, airline founder and largest shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou said:
“I find the current situation very bizarre. Two more scoundrels running for the hills following the CFO’s resignation just two weeks ago.
Read more: Sir Stelios comments on the latest resignations from the easyJet board
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Stelios statement on the easyJet /Airbus scandal 16 April 2019 at 12.12h BST
Commenting on the easyJet 2020 H1 trading update released on the 16 April 2020, the airline’s founder and largest shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou said:
“I have previously referred those in charge of easyJet as scoundrels. This remains my view. They made a deliberate mistake in affirming the contract between easyJet and Airbus worth at least £4.5 billion whilst easyJet has a grounded fleet of 337 Airbus aircraft. Instead of serving a notice of termination to Airbus to cancel the contract they have deliberately chosen to send at least £2.5bn of our cash to Airbus in the years 2020-22. At least £1.5 billion of our cash (of the £2.5bn) is shown as going to Airbus in the next 9 months whilst the fleet could remain grounded.
Read more: Stelios statement on the easyJet/Airbus scandal 16 April 2019 at 12.12h BST
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Update from Stelios on the easyJet/Airbus scandal
Stelios has hired a hard hitting legal team of Simon Bushell and Ben Jaffey to expose the deficiencies in the easyJet announcement of the 9th of April 2020 about “deferring” 24 aircraft deliveries from Airbus.
The long argument can be seen in the letter but in short the “new deal with Airbus” must be put to a shareholder vote.
The scoundrels at easyJet do not have the corporate authority to cut such a deal given the collapsed share price and the monumental size of the Airbus order of c GBP 4.5bn. If the FCA does not force the scoundrels to call a shareholder vote on new deal with Airbus, easyGroup will not hesitate to seek a judicial review.
In plain English that means going to High Court judge to ask for an injunction to require the regulators to do their job properly.
Read more: Update from Stelios on the easyJet/Airbus scandal
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