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...Finland: Alex Stubb and Pekka Haavisto vie for the presidency in a run-off election on Sunday....
...The favourite to win is former prime minister Alex Stubb, who told the FT this week that his country did not fear Russia. How well did you keep up with the news this week? Take our quiz....
...At these levels, “I can imagine it is more difficult to participate in major [in-person] fairs,” says Alex Forbes, Artsy’s vice-president of galleries and fairs....
...Alex Mashinsky, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, has been arrested by US authorities and charged with fraud and market manipulation....
...WHSmith is now firmly a travel retailer, with the high street accounting for only 16 per cent of operating profits before central costs, according to Alex Chatterton at Panmure Gordon....
...The public response was so positive that the then prime minister, Labour’s Gordon Brown, decided against calling a snap general election....
...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...Alex Chatterton, analyst at Panmure Gordon, said results for the quarter had been expected to be strong thanks to new product releases. But the announcement had been more positive than he expected....
...However, given the reception since its market debut around 18 months ago, it’s little wonder that its chief executive Gordon Sanghera also recently considered pursuing a listing elsewhere....
...Director Daniel Gordon uses split screens, dramatised reconstruction, zippy diagrams and some rather stiff comic-book animations....
...“The market has been consistently wrong about Fed policy this year,” said Kevin Gordon, senior investment strategist at Charles Schwab....
...His adversary was Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National party, who recognised Darling as a “formidable campaigner”....
...Those efforts “seem a bit ‘old regime’,” said Alex Brazier, deputy head of the BlackRock Investment Institute. “Like we’re going back to how we used to be.”...
...I ask if, in terms of leadership, he looks at United’s legendary former manager Sir Alex Ferguson as an example. “Definitely,” he says....
...Economists have questioned Brazil and Argentina’s plan to create a common currency, with former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard calling it “insane”....
...In the wake of the electoral disaster in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, one of Yousaf’s predecessors and now leader of the rival Alba group, Alex Salmond, suggested that Yousaf had “days” to save his job....
...Inside China’s intelligence operation Much has been written in recent years about China’s espionage, writes Demetri Sevastopulo, but Alex Joske’s Spies and Lies goes inside China’s intelligence operation...
...What else we’re reading Glitz and Gladwell: the infighting over prized JPMorgan wealth clients Infighting at JPMorgan Chase over how to manage the fortune of retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez has escalated...
...Global media editor Alex Barker investigates....
...He was in cabinet all the way through it, starting as chief secretary to the treasury under Gordon Brown, rising to become Gordon Brown’s chancellor when he took over as prime minister and being chancellor...
...Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp, founder of pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland, said the SNP might bounce back if Yousaf was seen to effectively tackle its governance problems....
...In July, Larry Summers, Olivier Blanchard and Alex Domash hit back at Waller and the Fed with a withering paper....
...Thanks for reading FirstFT Americas and have a great weekend — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...BUY: Jadestone Energy (JSE) Suspended Montara production knocks out half of Jadestone Energy’s output and $45mn of 2022 free cash flow, writes Alex Hamer....
...Gordon Smith, head of fund research at Killik, says the infrastructure sector will play a huge role in the digitalisation of industry — one of the most significant developments in the global economy over...
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