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...Jonathan Reynolds, the business spokesman, has spent years affably courting the City....
...I am the FT’s Chief Business Correspondent and as part of my job I speak to a lot of businesses in the City....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...The name of the State Grain Operator is not on this document The origin of the grain is no longer listed as occupied Zaporizhzhia, but Togliatti — a city in Samara, a region of Russia....
...“We are obviously the heart of commerce in the real world, so why would we not want to do the same thing in a metaverse?...
...A few steps from the post office were the Bourse de commerce and the food market at Les Halles, the “belly of Paris”....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Covered in graffiti, these elements of city life are imbued with a monumental feel – a miniature 21st-century take on monoliths....
...(FT) Video of the day Saudi Arabia’s mega-project A 170km car-free, carbon-free city the size of Belgium, built in a straight line through a remote part of Saudi Arabia is Mohammed bin Salman’s grand plan...
...The US Chamber of Commerce responded to the move by saying there was “no alternative to Congress legislating and no excuse for their inaction”....
...Our chart of the day looks at falling US imports from Europe, while our person in the news is Edward Yau, Hong Kong’s commerce minister....
...“External demand is one of three major economic headwinds ahead which will cause the recovery to be W-shaped instead of V-shaped,” says Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie....
...The risk of lawsuits for exposing employees to the virus was “one of the most serious matters we face”, Tom Donohue, chief executive of the US Chamber of Commerce, told CNN International television....
...But a confluence of factors — the 2008 financial crisis, the decline of brick-and-mortar, the casualisation of fashion and the rise of e-commerce — created a perfect storm that few have been able to weather...
...[T]he impact of the lockdown followed by a V-shaped recovery [suggests] European profit could contract by between 14% and 35% in 2020 depending on the length of the lockdown....
...Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
...East; investment in the East Midlands; businesses relocating to our great cities of the North and the Midlands; and thousands of jobs being created around the UK....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...International business has joined the chorus of condemnation against the use of violence protests, with the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong saying they “do not reflect how the majority of people...
...As well as officials from the Federal Communications Commission, there will be representatives from the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce and a “big delegation” from the Department of State...
...But the course of the pandemic will have a big impact on the relative income of big urban city centres....
...(NYT) Video of the day How cities could heal themselves Researchers are testing materials that repair themselves and maintenance robots that work around the clock, such as small robotic worms that will...
...Museums are a side hustle: he curated an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield in 2017, and last month was named a trustee of the board of the V&A. “A shop is a public space. Anyone can come in....
...The city ultimately enacted the ban, but the scale of the spending is a reminder of the industry’s lobbying clout....
...In 2014, he was appointed a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and he later became the chairman of V&A enterprises, the museum’s commercial arm....
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