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November 8, 2023

Eurozone money supply shrinks for first time in 13 years as lending slows

...“Annual growth in bank lending continues to trend down rapidly,” said Bert Colijn, an economist at Dutch bank ING....

August 28, 2023

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Eurozone inflation

Eurozone inflation falls sharply to 6.9% as energy costs recede

...“The potential for core inflation to remain stickier than hoped will be the main reason for the ECB to continue to hike [rates] in the near term,” said Bert Colijn, an economist at Dutch bank ING, predicting...

March 31, 2023

ReviewVisual Arts

Moroccan Modernism at Tate St Ives — postcolonial adventures in abstraction

...The cosmopolitan Casa Group tutors included the Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint — who coined the term “Afro-Berber” — and the Italian art historian Toni Maraini (Melehi’s then wife)....

June 10, 2023

Chinese corruption

China launches corruption probe into football association chief

...“I have already given up any hopes and illusions I used to have in Chinese football,” said Bert Zhou, an entrepreneur in Shenzhen and football fan....

February 15, 2023

Eurozone economy

Eurozone set for milder downturn as business gloom subsides

...The French figures were the main disappointment, with its composite PMI dropping again to a 22-month low of 48, driven by weak trends in services....

December 16, 2022

FT Live

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The Big Read

Transformers: the Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution

...How the transformer model works A simplified guide The transformer is divided into two main parts — the encoder, which processes and learns to understand an input sequence, which could be any repeating...

July 23, 2023

ExplainerMarket Questions

Did UK inflation steady last month after April’s surge?

...By the end of 2023, its main policy rate should be 3 per cent, Nordea believes....

June 19, 2022

FT Globetrotter

The ultimate guide to vegan Paris

...Vegetables were, of course, the main act, celebrated in surprising ways rather than as shadows of known classics....

November 28, 2022

News in-depthCuba

‘Now it will only get worse’: Cuba grapples with impact of Ukraine war

...“We want to rescue that market, which was the main provider during the pandemic,” he said this week....

May 13, 2022

HTSI

Five British boltholes you won’t want to leave

...The wine cellar comes courtesy of Bert Blaize, of Clove Club fame. And the man in charge of the walled garden (not a chemical in sight, by the way) is ex-Petersham Nurseries....

October 10, 2021

Unilever PLC

Unilever bid fiasco ramps up pressure to deliver plan B

...“The main question now is how much damage has been done to the credibility of the board and management,” said Monteyne....

January 21, 2022

Find your happy space: the HTSI property special

The crazy world of carchitecture

...Design writers Thijs Demeulemeester and Bert Voet’s recent book Carchitecture, with photography by Thomas De Bruyne, explores the historical parallels between trends in architectural styles and car design...

October 11, 2021

Eurozone economy

Eurozone retail sales and inflation fall

...Bert Colijn, senior economist at ING, noted that a 1.8 per cent month-on-month growth in internet sales “indicates that online substitution for main street sales may be smaller than expected”....

January 7, 2021

News in-depthEU economy

European workers’ reliance on furlough fuels call for retraining

...Bert Colijn, economist at ING, warned that “at some point, more businesses will start to restructure and delayed unemployment could still be the result of the eventual end of the schemes”....

February 17, 2021

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FT SeriesWomen of 2020

Citi’s next CEO Jane Fraser on regulators, Covid and breaking the gender barrier

...The crisis strikes at the heart of systems that run all through the bank, and the regulators cracking the whip are the ones who issue Citi’s main licences....

December 2, 2020

James Max

What home improvements will add value to my home?

...A retreat away from the main house has always been on buyers’ wish lists, but the pandemic has brought this to the fore....

March 10, 2021

News in-depthEU economy

China demand for Europe’s luxury goods lifts virus-hit economy

...This has contributed to China surpassing the US as the EU’s main trading partner this year for the first time....

November 9, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Sudden breakthroughs in AI could hold the key to digital progress

...There have been few fields that make this case as clearly as deep learning, the main technique behind recent advances in AI....

August 14, 2020

Eurozone economy

Eurozone business activity rebounds from pandemic hit

...This was the main driver of a 0.8 per cent global pickup in production volumes, the first expansion since the pandemic hit earlier this year....

July 24, 2020

Robin Lane Fox

The therapeutic value of gardening

...He also pitied those like his pensioner neighbour, Bert Baxter, who had nothing but plants in pots to look after....

July 17, 2020

Eurozone economy

European investment plunge raises fears for future growth

...“In the aftermath of the lockdown, as the economy gradually reopens, some businesses will have to invest to adjust their business model to the new and temporary social distancing economy,” said Bert Colijn...

May 13, 2020

Google LLC

Google uses AI to boost search engine ranking efficiency

...This enables it to zero in on the main subject matter of a query, but often results in it misunderstanding a user’s precise request....

October 25, 2019

Eurozone economy

Eurozone industrial output rebound unlikely to stem contraction

...Compared to August last year, Germany was the main drag to growth, with industrial output contracting 5 per cent as the export-led economy is more exposed to the effects of the US-China trade war....

October 14, 2019

Europe Express

Duty of care

...“The fourth quarter is set up for another contraction in production,” said Bert Colijn, a senior economist at ING....

January 16, 2020

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