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...In October 2020, Koch, along with Elwartowski and Romundt, purchased an ex-P&O Cruises vessel at the knockdown price of $9.5mn....
...Meanwhile, Browne was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” and simplified couture techniques for ready-to-wear, focusing on the different weights of materials such as tweed, cashmere and wool....
...Housed in the Unité d’habitation — the most famous of the Swiss-French architect’s modernist housing developments throughout Europe — the 21 bedrooms are a monument to a modernist utopia that might have...
...“He’s on top of everything,” said Domenico De Sole, a Pirelli board member and the former chief executive of Gucci and Tom Ford....
...High-yield (“junk”) bonds pay 8 per cent, and the lowest-quality triple-C junk yields 13 per cent....
...As Ford concludes: “Maybe the problem isn’t Rishi; the problem is reality”....
...IG Metall said Ford had internally announced plans to slash up to 3,200 jobs in Germany, with more cuts expected elsewhere in Europe. 3....
...Last month, Ford announced a controversial $3.5bn plan to build batteries in Michigan using technology from China’s CATL....
...Stewart died in 2014 and the house has been sold twice since, for C$15mn in 2016 and C$18mn in 2020....
...Speaking at a Bloomberg event yesterday, Mark Carney, a Gfanz architect, was asked about the FT’s reporting....
...Late on Thursday, S&P Global Ratings downgraded Evergrande for the second time in weeks to triple C minus, deeper into speculative grade, and said that the developer’s liquidity position was “eroding more...
...Qualifications for professionals such as doctors, engineers and architects must be recognised in each state....
...In further reading, David Deacon, whose record in talent management includes stints at Credit Suisse, MasterCard and Capita, adds the missing fifth C — culture — to the four I mentioned in my column last...
...This pattern is replicated within the rating silos of double B, single B and triple C paper that comprise the high-yield market....
...Even the double-A-rated tranche — awarded the stellar rating by both Kroll and S&P — has slipped to a junk rating of double B....
...However, at c.18x recovered earnings, we’d prefer to look elsewhere or wait for a cheaper entry point....
...His annual January letter to the chief executives of the S&P 500 is a must-read, and last year he called on them to take a more active role in addressing societal issues, from retirement to infrastructure...
...In April, S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Detroit debt to negative — making it potentially more difficult and expensive for the city to borrow — on pandemic concerns....
...Allan Monks: The Bank of England would feel comfortable cutting to -0.5 per cent if it needed to....
...Jonathan Ford investigates. (FT) Finally, something sweet for your pre-holiday Moral Money....
...Jonathan Ford It’s a pretty moot point whether private equity as a whole really delivers superior management. But in infrastructure, it is even harder to establish....
...The UN climate talks in Madrid got an infusion of American star power on Tuesday with the arrival of Mike Bloomberg, Harrison Ford and Al Gore....
...In 2015, computer engineer Jack Zhang and architect Max Li opened a coffee house in Melbourne’s high-rise Docklands district....
...The architects of austerity like to claim that it heralded a jobs miracle in this country....
...Valuations of the big carmakers are among the most depressed on the S&P 500, Germany’s DAX and Japan’s Nikkei indices, according to Bernstein....
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