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...William Wragg expressed regret at ministers’ refusal to strengthen the roles of two key ethics watchdogs, the chair of the advisory committee on business appointments and the commissioner for public appointments...
...Lex Falleyn, the Urban Show’s organiser, says it will be “aspirational but practical”, demonstrating that a lack of space or experience doesn’t need to be a barrier....
...Central overheads are largely fixed, meaning operating margins after amortisation and depreciation should move from negative to some 6 per cent of transaction values, reckons William Woods at Bernstein....
...As a former head of Scotch whisky group William Grant, Entain’s new interim chief Stella David should be familiar with the works of Walter Scott....
...William Powell Frith’s 1862 panorama “The Railway Station” depicted a nation going somewhere....
...Adjustments for menopause symptoms can benefit the wider workforce, says Rhianydd Williams, an officer at TUC, a UK trades union body....
...Fair value is closer to 600 pesos, thinks William Jackson at Capital Economics. Black marketeers put it at about 900 pesos....
...Many say they welcome competition, yet in practice they dislike it, says William Wright of the New Financial think-tank....
...Another is leading candidate vice-president William Lai. He is expected to take a hardline stance against Chinese aggression The land use probes are especially worrying....
...Pension funds have had their “risk appetite kicked out of them”, says New Financial’s managing director William Wright....
...Consider the recent high-profile appointment by LVMH of recording artist and producer Pharrell Williams as creative director of its menswear....
...The FT’s Stephen Foley, who covered the latest KPMG settlement, asked PCAOB chair Erica Williams why so many accountants cannot be trusted to do these training exercises without cheating....
...I’m at aime.williams@ft.com....
...While Goldman abandons consumer banking, it’s trying to build out a massive wealth and asset management business that brings in a steady stream of fees, Lex writes....
...Nobel Prize winner William Nordhaus, who began modelling climate change as far back as 1975, describes this as the thorniest problem of all....
...Tesco and Sainsbury’s are on track for full-year operating margins of 4 and 3 per cent respectively, says William Woods at Bernstein, in line with last year....
...Two years later he became an adviser to Australian financier Lex Greensill with a salary of more than $1mn a year and an estimated $10mn of share options....
...Chief executive William Li once said the company would not follow Tesla’s lead....
...They declined 24.3 per cent year over year in the week ending May 20, according to Bump Williams Consulting, citing NielsenIQ data....
...But amid London’s freezing temperatures and frozen market, it may just represent the fact that “UK brokers must huddle together for warmth”, write our colleagues at Lex....
...Paul Williams, professor of atmospheric science in the department of meteorology at the University of Reading, estimates that severe clear air turbulence over the north Atlantic could almost treble in the...
...Lex’s list and commentary on the top 10 equities by market capitalisation in 1953 and 2023 (“UK equities: an enduring dynasty”, Lex, May 8) actually understates the extent to which little has changed with...
...Protein powder provider THG and NFT platform Kraken are both sponsors of Formula One team Williams Racing. Which other company’s logo appears on the inner front wings of Williams’ F1 cars?...
...But in hushed tones, investors and advisers have been increasingly warning DD’s Antoine Gara, Eric Platt and William Louch of trouble ahead. So how much of a bind is private equity in, really?...
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