Hints and tips:
...Uefa, the governing body for football in Europe, bars clubs owned by the same entity from competing against each other....
...The UK urgently needs both a real, green national investment bank, and authentic, regional banks, like the nascent South West Mutual....
...Exports of goods to China account for 7 per cent of all German exports, or 2.8 per cent of national output in 2018....
...In the five years leading up to 2016, Paris was losing about 12,000 residents annually, according to the Insee, France’s national statistical body....
...(The Atlantic) Man v machine Sensitivity to “gut feelings” is a strong predictor of success in financial trading, according to research led by Cambridge university....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...On the one hand, the tradition of European landscape painting that he had been schooled in, with its lushness, its incised V-shapes and receding planes....
...Howard Davies, chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland More optimistic than 12 months ago Sterling fell more and more rapidly than I expected, which will give a modest boost to net exports....
...The stock of assets bought under QE will also continue to shrink as a proportion of national income, while the Bank of England will make modest macroprudential tightening too....
...Sterling fell 1.3 per cent against the dollar as markets finally showed queasiness at the prospect of an untidy election outcome next week....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...It reminds us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...Sutcliffe’s fable, inspired by a visit to the West Bank, can’t fail to excite and move....
...; “Family-feast” and “Happy-Meal“ feature fast food; and these dancing girls might warm the hearts of the National Firearms Association....
...Abstracting from the issue of skilled v unskilled labour, profits as a percentage of GDP are at a 50-year high in the US, and multi-decade highs in Germany. To what do you attribute this?...
...Nosh, dosh, nosh Matthijs Fleischer, a proprietary foreign exchange trader at National Australia Bank, had to dash off from a lunch at St Swithin’s Lane eaterie, The Don, on Thursday immediately after devouring...
...Body electric There is no need to sing the praises of the newest member of Sony's board. His accomplishments are modestly proclaimed on www.sirpeterbonfield.com. mudlark@ft.com...
...“In interrogation techniques, and in how far you could go before people began to object. In 2002, nobody was objecting.”...
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