Hints and tips:
...Reuters expect the ECB to raise rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.75 per cent, yet “any upside surprise [in inflation figures] would keep the pressure up to stick with the faster hikes”, said Henry Allen...
...“The recovery could reflect investors having a few days to reassess and decide things aren’t as bad as they seemed,” said Jack Allen-Reynolds, deputy chief eurozone economist at Capital Economics....
...The initial response [to the deal] was not positive but statements from the supervisory arm and policymakers seemed to have been taken pretty well,” said Jack Allen-Reynolds, deputy chief eurozone economist...
...“It’s no great surprise” that the strong surveys of business activity in the US and eurozone this week had dented equities, said Jack Allen-Reynolds, deputy chief eurozone economist at Capital Economics....
...Dubai has emerged as a popular destination for Russian oligarchs to seek refuge from western sanctions — and retain legal counsel — as the FT’s Simeon Kerr explains....
...Moelis, PwC and Allen & Overy are overseeing debt restructuring talks with lenders....
...LB: “You mean Simeon Kerr.” HRH: “Yes, Simon Kerr . . . Look, I’m just passing on a message . . . your man is causing a lot of problems.” LB: “Have you read any of Simeon’s articles from Dubai?”...
...To find out more about the man behind Man City read this profile by Simeon Kerr and Andrew England. Scheme to outscheme the Scheme of Arrangement Some satellite launches go very smoothly....
...Kerr Finlayson, a director at RBC Capital Markets, called the deal “another important milestone in the evolution of risk-free rates”....
...Additional reporting by Kate Allen...
...Meanwhile, Lord Kerr’s speech is worth reading in its entirety. (You can read it here in context.) “My Lords, I want to make three points....
...Additional reporting by Kate Allen in London *This article has been subject to a correction. These figures are not in billions as first published, but in millions....
...Additional reporting by Caroline Binham, Simeon Kerr and Kate Allen...
...Lord Kerr cited Mrs May’s rejection of the European Court of Justice as “the single most damaging issue”....
...David Allen Green is the law and policy commentator for FT.com and is writing a book about Brexit...
...Lord Kerr, giving the lead ruling of the Supreme Court, said that he allowed Mr Walker’s appeal and said his husband was entitled to a spouse’s pension on his death....
...Booz Allen’s Mr Eltayeb agrees that there is more to be done to modernise the Saudi curriculum, while adding that he feels it has been addressed to some extent....
...Lord Kerr, who drew up Article 50, warns that uncertainty over who will lead Brexit talks for the UK means Britain faces a 45 per cent chance of crashing out of the EU with no deal....
...The government could have side-stepped this difficulty by not accepting that the notification was irrevocable (and many, including Lord Kerr who wrote Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, say a notification...
...David Allen Green, a lawyer and journalist, writes the law and policy blog for FT.com....
...In other words, feminism has ruined Woody Allen for me. But I have found two things particularly difficult. First, feminism isn’t costless for a man....
...Additional reporting by Tanya Powley and Simeon Kerr...
...“Saudi Arabia has been considering where it is today and where it should be in the next decade,” said Ramez Shehadi, managing director of consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton in the Middle East and north Africa...
...He and Allen are now interred in the same corner of the emirate’s desert Christian burial ground....
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