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...The Emerging Republican Majority by Kevin P PhillipsThis 1969 masterpiece explains Nixon’s “Southern strategy”, which used race, cultural issues and demographic shifts to destroy the Democratic majority...
...Letter in response to this article: Deep-sea mining start-ups should be careful what they wish for / From Aistė Klimašauskaitė and Eoghan P Reeves, University of Bergen, Norway...
...Looking ahead to next year, Walter Baethgen, a scientist at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society, said years of strong Pacific Ocean warming such as that the world...
...It costs less than $3 per kilogramme for “grey” hydrogen production from fossil fuels, S&P said in a report this year....
...The sector as a whole also breathed a sigh of relief, with the S&P Global Luxury index rising almost 3 per cent....
...“I said to Mark [Walter], ‘You’re going to think I put this in there. I didn’t!’”...
...Elon Musk biography: Walter Isaacson’s much-hyped book is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of the tech entrepreneur’s work, writes Rana Foroohar....
...Person to watch Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of LVMH, is the most influential figure in the industry for a reason....
...HY, Costco Wholesale Q2, Darktrace HY, Elementis FY, Entain FY, Funding Circle FY, Grafton FY, ITV FY, Kier HY, Kroger Q4, Lufthansa FY, Melrose Industries FY, PageGroup FY, Rentokil Initial FY, Robert Walters...
...BP has appointed Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc as its next senior independent director in the first major shake-up of the oil major’s board since the departure of CEO Bernard Looney....
...Regarding ownership concentration, bitcoin’s pales beside Bernard Arnault’s 48 per cent stake in LVMH, let alone his majority voting share....
...A couple of hours before the FT broke the news that BP’s chief executive, Bernard Looney, was resigning after a number of unreported relationships with colleagues, Paul Murphy, the FT’s investigations editor...
...Admittedly, you would have done even better in US stocks, given the 170 per cent rise in the S&P 500 over the decade....
...Economic data: S&P Global/Sips construction purchasing managers’ index readings for the UK are announced. German factory orders figures are published....
...In the US — where it is less common to have been on the board prior to taking the top job — 17 per cent of the 245 S&P 1500 chiefs appointed since the start of last year were company directors before they...
...A Harvard Business Review analysis from 2021 estimated that bad chief executive and C-suite successions wiped out $1tn in market value from the S&P 1500 a year....
...Mega-offerings in New York next month include the $400mn-plus Emily Fisher Laudau collection at Sotheby’s — with a 1932 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter estimated at $120mn — and, at Christie’s,...
...Last week, BP chief Bernard Looney resigned over his failure to disclose the extent of past personal relationships inside the company....
...The company subsequently grew by acquiring other companies and counts Platts, part of credit rating company S&P, among its competitors....
...BP has had a tumultuous few months following reports about chief executive Bernard Looney’s undisclosed past relationships with colleagues....
...The UK, still labouring under a Brexit discount, trades at just 10 times forecast p/e. Both could fall further. Lex sees a rather gloomy outlook....
...That reflects impressive compound annual growth in earnings before interest, depreciation and amortisation of 30 per cent, as calculated by S&P CIQ....
...President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will give a speech in Berlin Friday UK: New lord mayor of the City of London, Michael Mainelli, takes office at The Silent Ceremony at Guildhall, becoming the 695th incumbent...
...BAE Systems’ Charles Woodburn, and BP’s Bernard Looney were paid more than £10mn each, as was Albert Manifold, boss of CRH, which is moving its listing to the US....
...British Recruitment company Robert Walters is due a trading update....
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