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...News round-up CVC expresses interest in EY’s Italian consulting arm (FT) Nordstrom family weighs taking retailer private (Wall Street Journal) Hedge fund Brevan Howard cuts 10% of staff amid poor performance...
...Meanwhile, BP has finally announced a new permanent chief following Bernard Looney’s abrupt departure in September after failing to disclose past relationships with company colleagues....
...Among them are the family holding company of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund....
...Job moves Former Starbucks chief Howard Schultz is stepping down from the coffee chain’s board....
...Pygmalion Old Vic, London The pipes and moustaches of Bernard Shaw’s Edwardian England may have vanished, but there is still no shortage of opinionated men keen to tell women how to behave....
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard This article has been amended since original publication to correct the size of Blackwells’ stake in Disney...
...His Lamb is raspy-voiced, not a million miles away from the actor Trevor Howard towards the end of his career....
...Dated 1920, it actually depicts a structure for outdoor sleeping erected 10 years earlier by President William Howard Taft....
...But all that changed with the discovery of Bernard Madoff’s $65bn Ponzi scheme in December 2008, in the depths of the financial crisis....
...Howard Catton, chief executive of the International Council of Nurses, a federation of more than 130 national nursing organisations, says nurses were rightly lauded as “heroes” by governments when the pandemic...
...“It looks unlikely to return to the levels seen at the start of 2020 for some considerable time to come,” said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser at EY Item Club, a consultancy....
...Bernard Jenkin, a senior Conservative backbencher, accused the head of Jaguar Land Rover of “making up” numbers suggesting Brexit would cost the company £1.2bn a year....
...Howard Dawber, the group’s managing director of strategy, also returned to work shortly after a trip to Spain last month....
...Job moves Indivior, the drugmaker, said its chair Howard Pien will take a leave of absence for medical reasons....
...And macro funds such as Brevan Howard and Caxton Associates have made double-digit gains, helped by the rally in government bonds as investors fled to havens. There have been some losers....
...Poet Bernard Kops, now 92 and still living in the area, recorded his first impressions in his memoir: “Through the glass I could see bums, failures, neurotics.”...
...In the US, PBS airs the BBC’s period dramas: Poldark, Howards End, Sherlock....
...The Peach State is the country’s top poultry producer — an unwelcome fact of life for Jill Howard Church, president of the Vegetarian Society of Georgia....
...Analysts at Whitman Howard believe the loss of credit insurance and the projected April “borrowing peak” contributed to the need for this “stop-gap”....
...The partnership between Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann is the most obvious example. Where would Vertigo be without Herrmann’s film score?...
...The details have been unearthed by Jeremy Howard, head of academic projects at the Colnaghi Foundation, who found a handwritten letter of 1899 from Gutekunst to Bernard Berenson, art historian and agent...
...Today Sir Howard Davies, chairman of RBS, issued the same message....
...Mr Howard previously worked for Market Tech, a London-based property group....
...But Howard Brenton, in this new play, is interested in what T.E. Lawrence did next — and why, in 1922, he tried to bury himself without trace, by joining the lower ranks of the RAF under a pseudonym....
...As the journalist and academic Howard French tells it in Everything Under the Heavens, China’s leader is essentially seeking to return his country to the position it has traditionally exercised in Asia —...
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