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...Napoleon’s Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era, by Louis Sarkozy, is published on 30 May by Pen & Sword Books at £22...
...they don’t understand how consumers shop today and they don’t understand the dynamics of a marketplace with no barriers to entry, constant influx of new competitors,” Joanne Crevoiserat, the company’s C.E.O...
...OK, but not yet, says the FCDO: This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 22 (1) (a, b and c) of the FOIA (2000)....
...The best gift I’ve received recently is a pastel drawing by the artist Louis Eisner, who is a good friend....
...A 20% adoption rate would imply c£900m of industry-wide flows. In aggregate, this implies a £1.5bn net flow tailwind, with assumptions that we believe are generous. What can you say about £1.5bn?...
...(a) (of a gem) uncut, unpolished; (b) (of water) undistilled; not filtered; (c) (of alcoholic spirit) undiluted; (d) (of grain) unmalted, undried; (e) (of sewage) untreated. I.2.e....
...This was not always the case: the proportion of variable rate debt has fallen sharply over the last decade, from a peak of c.70% in 2012....
...range of forecasts strategists produce for the coming year, writes Société Générale’s Jitesh Kumar: For example, over 2017, VIX averaged 11.1, and the S&P500 forecast range from strategists for 2018 was c.17%...
...Overall impact to ASK capacity for H2 F24 expected to be c. 20 per cent higher YoY (Q3 c. 25 per cent, Q4 c. 15 per cent)....
...According to MMO Population tracker, it has c 18.7m subscribers and 353k daily active players which ranks number 14 of 140 tracked MMOs....
...Pangaia Pangaia T-shirts use C-Fiber, which is made of seaweed powder and wood pulp; they are also treated with peppermint oil....
...In percentage terms, c.35% of fund launches YTD have been ESG funds versus c.45% in both 2021 and 2022 making the decline in ESG fund launches versus all equity and fixed income funds in aggregate less stark...
...On our calculations, based on the current QT trajectory and TFSME path, Bank reserves will fall significantly over the coming years, likely halving (c. GBP 430bn) by the middle of the decade....
...Trying to figure out the German version of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose was a waste of several minutes of Alphaville’s time. Plus, it’s not really fair: things have changed for Germany....
...Nicolas Ghesquière did — insofar as a womenswear designer can run a risk at a brand as enormous and cemented in the public psyche as Louis Vuitton, whose sales surpassed €20bn last year....
...for set of three, matchesfashion.com Lukhanyo Mdingi viscose-mix knitted fringed maxi dress, £1,495, net-a-porter.com Ulla Johnson cotton Freda embroidered shorts, £342, net-a-porter.com Dior raffia C’...
...In a note published today, he writes: [C]entral banks suddenly sound all cautious and pragmatic again....
...Alliance Pharma, M&C Saatchi and YouGov all fall in this zone. But it’s not only about individual companies....
...Brendan Luecke, of Sanford C Bernstein, on the Rockwell Automation November 2022 call. On that efficiency component: “I just wanted to double-click on that efficiency component.”...
...As well as Alphavillains Robin, Alex, George and Louis, prodigious emceeing skills were demonstrated (in spite of microphone issues) by the Unhedged team of Rob Armstrong and Ethan Wu, and by special guest...
...The bright green of Paulin’s doughnut-shaped C Club Chair chimes with the rows of Grenache vines that march up to within a few metres of the windows....
...“[But] she’s like Louis XIV. ‘L’Etat, c’est moi. I am Bangladesh.’” Sheikh Hasina was born in 1947 in what was then East Bengal, part of the new Muslim state of Pakistan....
...In a simple shape it conveys a C, a B, an & [ampersand symbol], and suggests everything is tied together....
...The loan is secured on a) his equity in the fund b) a bunch of SoftBank shares and c) his personal wealth....
...Both Louis Pommery and Taittinger have planted vines in England, and the latter is expected to release its first English-made wine in 2024....
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