AT THE height of her fame in the 1960s Julie Felix, who died on March 22 at the age of 81, was often referred to as “Britain’s First Lady of Folk”. despite coming from California.
It was in Britain, however, where her musical career developed. After travelling through Europe, with the help of communist folk artist Bruce Dunnett, she initially started performing in folk clubs in Britain.
Landing a record contract with Decca, her debut album in 1964 consisted largely of cover versions of songs by artists like Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Tom Paxton.
EXCLUSIVE: Somerset Capital Management, which the MP co-founded, says market volatility offers a “once or twice in a generation” opportunity to make “super normal returns”.
The North-East Somerset MP owns about 15 per cent of a firm that is buying up shares in companies hit by the virus crisis and stands to cash in when their value increases.
Somerset Capital Management (SCM) said that investors have a “once in a generation” chance of “super-normal returns.” Potential gains of up to 500 per cent are being anticipated.
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“Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, purchased and sold about $1.4 million in stock during the market panic set off by the coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Why it matters: Though the couple still lost money, they were able to limit the financial blow from the stock market’s worst month since October 2008.
Details: Loeffler reported that she and her husband bought $590,000 worth of stock and sold about $845,000 from Feb. 18 through March 13, according to WSJ‘s review of the senator’s financial disclosure.
– If they held the shares they sold until March 31, they would have been valued at $86,000 less than what they sold them for.
– The stocks they bought declined after they purchased them and resulted in losses of $102,000 through March 31.
Loeffler and her husband sold stocks in retail stores, such as Lululemon and T.J. Maxx, and invested in a company that makes COVID-19 protective garments for medical workers, according to a review by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
At least two Republican senators, Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), sold hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in stock shortly after Congress began receiving regular briefings about the outbreak of coronavirus spreading around the globe. [HuffPost]
