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...Adriana Kugler, member of Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Ford Motor Company chief executive Jim Farley, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speak at Stanford University...
...Ergo, India has offered round a fairly thin deal to trading partners that excludes access to its market for a lot of sensitive products including wheat, rice and sugar....
...Rice prices are at multiyear highs, but India has granted exceptions to its rice export bans to food-insecure countries and may well do so again. Why the muted market response?...
...“Permitting has become highly weaponised in Democratic states, and so it’s being used completely inappropriately,” said Alan Armstrong, Williams chief executive....
...“The environment right now is very positive for the oil and gas industry,” Alan Armstrong, chief executive of Williams, the biggest US gas pipeline company, told the Financial Times....
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...Our favourite pieces This week’s piece about the looming global rice crisis was FT journalism at its best....
...Theatre director Alan Lyddiard, who divides his time between Jerez in southern Spain and Leeds’ South Bank, loves both the Leeds Playhouse — where he’s an associate artist — and the council’s neighbourhood...
...So does this mean some relief for households from high inflation in basics ingredients such as rice, milk and bread? Sadly not, as the chart below shows....
...I have about 80, including Joy Division, Dead Kennedys and Alan Vega. I especially love my New Order T-shirts, for the Peter Saville graphics. I like what these bands represent in English culture....
...An object I would never part with is an Alan Shields art piece....
...Nearby, the sculptor Alan Wolfson has fashioned a paean to Katz’s in the form of a realist miniature. Still, the main mood is gloomy, with a side of stewed regret....
...However, FT senior trade writer Alan Beattie warns that the lack of oversight of these bilateral lending arrangements is a real danger (premium subscribers only)....
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...“I do hope we have learned something” from the previous global food crisis in 2007-2008, Okonjo-Iweala said, referring to a period in which problems were caused by droughts in key wheat and rice-producing...
...Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has promoted three new partners: Harsh Agarwal, Romain Dutartre, and Rob Volpe....
...Though it may be unlikely, China could contribute by dropping its export ban on fertiliser and reducing its stockpiling of corn, rice and wheat....
...Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired Gordon Smith, former co-president and chief operating officer of JPMorgan Chase, as an operating adviser....
...Alan Beattie and Francesca Regalado...
...Alan Beattie and Claire Jones...
...Including rice. While Brazil is also a rice producer, it imports a fair amount too. As the chart below shows, the price of rice has risen 64 per cent in the year to March....
...But he can pretty much recall the entire Sondheim songbook, loves Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and will happily chirrup away for hours on the compositional virtues of Randy Newman and Alan Menken,...
...With rice farmers furious at massive food imports, Marcos Jr has cited his father’s Masagana 99 state-backed credit programme, which helped rice farmers increase their harvests but eventually burdened many...
...For its Morrison bid approach Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is using PR firm Teneo....
...Simply increasing potato production without changing diets could lead the country to be dependent on rice imports....
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