Hints and tips:
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...Prof Coates was talking about an even more concentrated index fund future, but who are the best candidates for the roughly dozen people of power he posits today?...
...And finally For those of us not in Glasgow this week, which is the best scotch egg outside of Scotland?...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...He told the FT’s Andrew England and George Parker he hoped it would be a “catalyst” to attract the world’s best venture capital funds to the UK’s life sciences industry....
...That was until Boris Johnson had a costly change of heart last week....
...); (v) the EU taxonomy; and (vi) a possible carbon border tax....
...Eleven days later, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, contracted Covid-19. The disease nearly killed him. That was Johnson’s road-to-Damascus. Many hoped Trump had had a similar conversion....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...One of the pair has been named as the world’s best player in nine of the past 10 years....
...Clear winner in this AMR Benchmark report was GlaxoSmithKline, with Johnson & Johnson in second place. Entasis of the US leads the ranking of smaller biotechs....
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...of postwar Britain by examining the relatively shortlived experiment with military service....
...An old fashioned tussle is good theatre, but Mr Ackman et al are company directors, not actors. Their public spat is doing JC Penney no favours at all. Email the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...$6.00 Total (inc tax and service) $210.19 ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Don’t invite people with poor manners to lunch / From Mr James Atkins...
...What caused a stir was the designer’s low V-neck mermaid gown with bandeau accent, modified from her autumn show....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...andrew.edgecliffe-johnson@ft.com...
...“Client interest isn’t al-ways served in investing in [the current benchmarks],” says Kevin Corrigan, head of credit at Lombard Odier Investment Managers....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s media editor...
...Skoll doesn’t really do media, you see, only one extended interview a year at best....
...Given all the upheavals in the banking world right now, it seems some of the executives at Citigroup et al forgot the principles of their profession....
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