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...“M on K”, my initials. And, increasingly, the monastic tonsure forming on my ageing pate. Real name Mark Kelmanson. Where are you? West Yorkshire, a hat’s throw from Ilkley Moor....
...South Korea has responded to the US subsidies with a semiconductor package of its own, the so-called “K-Chips Act”....
...“Wine is in a different place in the journey compared to spirits and so we’re at a very nascent phase,” Samant said, arguing that after years of boom and bust, the industry had come to “a more stable place...
...The inaugural Seoul edition of the Frieze Art Fair marks a defining moment in the history of the South Korean art market....
...You don’t even need to be physically present in Singapore to set up a family office there....
...It’s been surreal to see global fallout from a depositor run on a US regional bank. It’s even stranger that the run occurred because depositors realised that bond prices go down when yields go up....
...It is not just a case of showing up any more with a ‘Made in Korea’ sticker on the back....
...In Europe they are up 240 per cent to €875 a tonne....
...Anna Wintour was telling our colleague Anna Nicolaou that there would be a Roaring Twenties boom for luxury goods and high fashion....
...Prospects of a deal being clinched on the NI protocol in the spring are looking up, which marks a thawing of relations and would help boost the pound....
...Even if you don’t stay at The Standard, drop in for sunset drinks by the water. Or rent the Bayview Suite, where you can host private cocktails for up to 15 people....
...Charted waters Few supply chain chinks have captured the world’s attention quite like the shortage of semiconductor chips....
...So buckle up, it’s going to be a great ride....
...The higher the price bracket, the stronger the gains: for the top 5 per cent of homes prices ended the year up 26.5 per cent. The median price was up 16.8 per cent to a record-high $718,000....
...But alongside growing confidence in connecting floods and droughts to climate change is a boom in other data that informs responses — something that, until recently, was lacking....
...But Permira believes that the business will boom once the government-support schemes that have propped up the economy during the pandemic come to an end....
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...“If you see a property on the water, and there are many, there is a good chance it’s a second home,” he says....
...The spectre of recession is stalking German boardrooms — but Berlin-based building firm K Rogge Spezialbau can barely keep up with demand....
...First up is the FT Weekend Festival, a day of author readings and wine tutorials in a venue (Hampstead Heath) that is itself the muse of poets....
...The shopping spree suggests that a dealmaking boom across the corporate world remains intact, after a pause attributed to shrinking confidence among executives and fears of a slowdown in global growth....
...UK water) should have re-rated more given the fall in index-linked bond yields. 4) Governments will spend more on renewables/utility infrastructure as the multiplier on GDP is up to 3x in a recession (i.e...
...The latter helped drive the tech M&A merger boom during the dotcom era as DD’s Sujeet Indap described in this Alphaville post a few years ago. In the early 2000s, however, the spreadsheets got easier....
...Long term interest rates are also very low, meaning the bang from more QE has faded significantly. 2020 marks the end of the inflation targeting paradigm as we know it....
...(FT) Trickle-down philanthropy The non-profit organisation Charity: Water’s employees can share in the spoils of hotly anticipated IPOs via a donations programme set up by the company’s founder, which allows...
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