Hints and tips:
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...But there’s something else he said that day that probably does more to explain the endurance of Benzema et al today....
...Get the latest worldwide picture with our vaccine tracker Some good news In case you missed it, the World Health Organization has turned optimistic on the trajectory of coronavirus after a fall in global...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...If money and the absence of political correctness will defeat Trump et al, so be it . . . The means will justify the outcome....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...A UBS report says the exposure of Intu et al to retailing is worse than suggested by the companies or feared by investors....
...Last month, CDPQ along with Al Gore’s Generation bought a majority stake of UK-based wealth management service provider FNZ in a $2.2bn deal....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...The emotion that has done most to swell the ranks of the populists has been a sense of unfairness — the belief that elites are indifferent to their plight. Mr Trump et al do not have any answers....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...FT Opening Quote, with commentary by City Editor Jonathan Guthrie, is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here. Et tu Brute?...
...In China, there is even a productivity boost, with Poncet et al. (2014) finding that minimum wage growth increases the productivity of surviving firms and allows more productive firms to replace the least...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...He said this even after Fox News had retracted a report that Birmingham (England, not Alabama) was a city inhabited totally by Muslims. (Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...Lankans and Indians who built the Burj Khalifa et al....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...If the concerns raised by the IMF, the Pope, et al are to be addressed, we need concrete action to redistribute wealth from top to bottom and ensure the poorest share in the proceeds of economic growth....
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