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...And there are strong supporting turns from Rowan Pierce (Barbarina), Andrew Shore (Bartolo), Clive Bayley (Antonio) and Colin Judson (Basilio and Curzio)....
...(FT) News round-up Dimon says JPMorgan is looking ‘aggressively’ at acquisitions (BBG) Three charts that pierce the private equity hype (FT Alphaville) Grab raises $850m to fuel efforts to outrun Gojek...
...‘The Women’ and ‘Mildred Pierce’ are re-released in the UK on August 17...
...His desire to pierce ever more deeply through the layers of violence, comradeship, greed, corruption and pathos of men, at once parasitical on societies and contemptuous of them, plunges him into their worlds...
...Instead we’ll put up this comment from Bruce Packard, the banks analyst at Seymour Pierce: We are sympathetic to the demands placed on a modern banking Chief Executive....
...Lloyds said it would promote David Roberts, the former head of retail and commercial banking at Barclays, to interim chief executive from January if António Horta-Osório could not return from sick leave....
...Packard agrees, arguing that Antonio Horta-Orsorio has attempted to guide the market lower in his first results statement....
...Antonio Horta-Osório has finally said something that’s made the Lloyds share price rise: In truth there’s nothing surprising in Thursday’s long-awaited strategic review, most of which seemed to find its...
...a letter to Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles....
...Ambac insures Punch’s debt securitisation vehicles and, if that protection disappeared, Punch might be forced to raise more equity, said Seymour Pierce analysts....
...“For the marriage of Pierce Brosnan [the former James Bond actor], we took 7,000 photographs to be sure we had enough that he could choose 20-odd,” Phil Hall, the former editor of the News of the World,...
...Joan Crawford made everyone cry as the pie-baking mom in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce....
...The Olympic movement is in an insecure state under president Juan Antonio Samaranch....
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