Hints and tips:
...The PIF first made a splash on the international stage in 2016, with a $3.5bn investment in Uber, and it followed up with a $45bn bet on SoftBank’s Vision Fund....
...Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons has named his son co-chairman of the quantitative hedge fund’s board and added five new directors....
...So far this year, China Inc has agreed to buy a paltry $35bn in international assets, yet it has disposed of about $40bn, becoming a net seller of overseas assets for the first time since it began buying...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...His two sons now work in the business. Simon handles property while Scott looks after the other interests. But he remains chairman and “chief pot and bottle washer”....
...A previously unseen 1974 Cosmograph that was made for Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said of Oman bears the sultan’s signature, a feature that could make it worth SFr500,000....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...… All the Rage, by AL Kennedy, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/ New Harvest, RRP$24 Billed as a set of love stories, Kennedy’s sparely written collection is more a study of the alienation, dismay and misery...
...This year, for the first time in well over a decade, an international journalist – Melissa Chan from Al Jazeera English – was denied a new work visa....
...Despite this evangelical fervour, Mr Lukies was a late convert. The son of a farmer, he left school at 16 with a handful of GCSE exams to pursue a life in professional rugby....
...To buy into the wardrobes of Hepburn, Helvin et al is to buy into a piece of that history, and the legendary taste of the women who first wore the clothes....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Of similar value (estimate $5m-$7m) is Picasso’s “Claude à Deux Ans et son Cheval Bois”, of the artist’s son with his toy horse in 1949....
...And, as the new faces took their places next to Wintour, Menkes et al for the Dolce & Gabbana show, the Italian brand’s in-house cameras rolled, streamlining the event directly on to YouTube....
...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....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...Remember that the “base” you speak of, which is to say the religious right, et al, were substantially created by the Left....
...From a tiny event it is now the largest in Italy and brings international visitors and of course revenue to the village....
...And, frankly speaking, if you look at so-called dissent outside Saudi Arabia, it’s only Saad al-Fagih [a dissident in London]. That’s superb....
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