Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

April 26, 2024

EY picks Janet Truncale as the first woman to lead a Big Four firm

...EY has appointed Janet Truncale, the head of its financial services business in the Americas, to be its next global chief executive, putting a woman in charge of a Big Four accounting firm for the first...

November 15, 2023

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthArgentine politics

Javier Milei’s sister Karina vies to be ‘the boss’ of Argentine politics

...On the campaign trail in Argentina, libertarian economist Javier Milei repeatedly referred to his younger sister Karina as “the boss”....

April 30, 2024

ReviewTheatre

Underdog: The Other Other Brontë — mightily entertaining story of three literary sisters

...Meanwhile we rather lose sight of real quality of the Brontë sisters’ writing and achievement....

April 10, 2024

ReviewArts

Remarkable testimony in the podcast June: Voice of a Silent Twin — review

...Known as “the silent twins”, the sisters refused to talk to anyone except each other, much to the bewilderment of their parents, teachers and the medical establishment....

January 8, 2024

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Associated British Foods, Mobico, Warpaint London

...Restructuring costs and driver shortages in North America dragged things down, but the main adjusting item was a £99.2mn onerous contract provision in the German rail business....

April 26, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

ReviewFiction

Playing Games by Huma Qureshi — a tale of two sisters

...Despite this somewhat two-sided set-up, the novel’s strength lies in Qureshi choosing not to demonise either of the sisters, but instead entering their points of view in alternate chapters....

December 11, 2023

News updates from October 24: Alphabet’s cloud unit misses on sales, UK unemployment rises to 4.2%

Emmanuel Macron: Israel’s fight must be ‘without mercy but not without rules’

...Macron appealed for the rules of war to be respected, including to allow for humanitarian aid to be delivered....

October 24, 2023

FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums

House museums #45: Brontë Parsonage

...The Brontë Society was founded in 1893 to track the dissemination of all this Brontëana, as it is known, and to maintain the fame and myth of the Brontë sisters....

December 4, 2023

Investors ChroniclePersonal Finance

Investors’ Chronicle: Clarksons, Reach, Inchcape

...The integration of the Derco acquisition has proceeded smoothly, deepening Inchcape’s footprint in the fast-growth Americas region....

March 8, 2024

ReviewTheatre

David Greig’s new play Two Sisters struggles to convince — review

...Two Sisters is the first original play of his own to be produced by the Edinburgh venue under his leadership, and it comes across as an overly introspective indulgence....

February 16, 2024

Personal Finance

Investors’ Chronicle: Ultimate Products, Tesco, THG

...The sale of the company’s banking operations (credit cards, loans and savings) to Barclays, announced in February, should help improve the value of the rest of the business, with the unit disappointing on...

April 12, 2024

HTSI

The whisky macs: Stella and Mary McCartney hit the bar(ware)

...Mary, Stella, their brother James and half-sister Heather spent their formative years on the farm, first going there when their father, Paul McCartney, was in the midst of The Beatles’ split....

October 11, 2023

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Safestore, Flutter Entertainment, Gateley

...Gateley achieved organic revenue growth of 5.1 per cent in the six months to October 31 2023, and pre-tax profits actually rose on the back of higher interest payments....

January 19, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: evaporation of entry requires early endplay solution

...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...

December 13, 2023

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Donald Trump

Maryanne Trump Barry, sister of Donald Trump, dies at 86

...Maryanne Trump Barry, the older sister of former president Donald Trump, has died aged 86....

November 13, 2023

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Learnings Technologies Group, Asos, Saga

...At the end of the first half, the retailer had £593mn of unsold merchandise against a full-year objective of £600mn, meaning planned reductions are running ahead of schedule....

April 19, 2024

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Hill & Smith, Synthomer, Persimmon

...This was on the back of a 150 basis point hike in the operating margin to 14.8 per cent....

March 15, 2024

Letter

Letter: Gardeners too enjoy being subservient to their plants

...Part of the joy of gardening is being at the mercy of the plants we attempt to grow! Jim McLaren East Kilbride, Glasgow, UK...

March 22, 2024

ReviewAlbums

St Vincent balances rawness and artifice on All Born Screaming

...Records are inspired by film scores (Actor), isolation (Strange Mercy), techno-fetishism (Masseduction) and louche 1970s rock (Daddy’s Home)....

April 24, 2024

US politics & policy

Robert Kennedy Jr taps nostalgia in maverick White House run

...“Whatever we’re doing — whatever we did — was wrong,” he said of America’s response to the pandemic, citing the nation’s enormous death toll. “Locking down the American public was wrong....

April 30, 2024

Haiti

Dominican Republic rebuff complicates Haitian leader’s route home

...“Haiti has descended into total chaos and lawlessness,” said Laurent Uwumuremyi, Haiti country director for US charity Mercy Corps....

March 9, 2024

ReviewFiction

Float Up, Sing Down — delightful day-in-the-life stories of small-town America

...In his chronicling of seemingly small pastoral lives lived at the mercy of weather, gossip and politics — several men in the town are scarred by war — there are echoes of the classic TV series The Waltons...

February 1, 2024

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: DFS Furniture, Trustpilot, Marshalls

...We remain concerned about the prospect of impairment of the Marley goodwill given market conditions, with goodwill and intangible assets making up 50 per cent of Marshalls’ total assets....

March 22, 2024

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Central Asia Metals, Bioventix, Kingfisher

...Capital spending overall will drop by $2mn-$4mn this year, with a “light at the end of the tunnel” in terms of mine improvements across the two assets, Robinson said....

March 29, 2024

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