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...(FT) George Floyd’s funeral In addition to family, those invited to Tuesday’s private funeral in Houston, Texas, include Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and civil rights leader, the Rev Al Sharpton...
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...All three have close ties to the Saudi regime, with Mr Fink giving regular briefings on the state of the global economy to Yasir al-Rumayyan, managing director of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi...
...Now it’s much more al desko.”...
...Nymex July West Texas Intermediate, the US oil benchmark, rose $1.95 to an eight-month high of $106.35....
...Wawro, a University of North Texas professor, offers a remarkably fresh and unsentimental analysis of an empire on its last legs....
...The Makhloufs are first cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, is investigating whether the transaction broke European and US sanctions (Wall Street Journal)....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...numbers of new products. full report The three biggest players, iShares, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors, are facing multiple challengers, including the ETF businesses linked to investment banks...
...North, a revitalised area of small outlets positioned between the city centre and the campus of Ohio State....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...During several years of strong capital markets and strong investor appetite for high-yielding securities, lenders became accustomed to easily selling the risky home loans they made to Wall Street banks....
...the like of which, since bleeding partition days, no Indian eye had seen,” wrote Justice V.R....
...“Part of doing an opening is understanding that you don’t get from 0 to 60 in 0.5 seconds. People don’t start off in a state of perfection,” he says....
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