Hints and tips:
...He wants KT&G to appoint Cha Suk-yong, chief executive of leading domestic cosmetics group LG H&H, and Hwang Ou-jin, the former head of Prudential Life Insurance, as outside directors....
...Left hand, little finger: Hermès silver H Ex Libris signet ring, £1,100....
...We seem to be in the midst of a mini banking crisis that neither blazes out of control, nor burns out. It just smoulders on. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Higher temperatures could even end up boosting natural gas prices further down the line, the bank reckons: Over the past several years, droughts – reducing hydro power generation and increasing natural gas burn...
...Order book protection that supports sales over the next few months will burn away to nothing, so consensus expectations of the trough being hit next year are “far too optimistic”, Berenberg says....
...A fifth of these deaths could be averted if rates of speeding and seatbelt-wearing matched peer countries, writes John Burn-Murdoch....
...Drug overdoses have played a large role in the widening gulf between the US and its peers over life expectancy, explains chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
...CIA chief William Burns also came and told the Bolsonaro administration not to mess with the elections....
...This is compared to Band 2 roles in the NHS which are being advertised with a starting salary of £9.65p/h, Band 3 roles at £10.40p/h and Band 4 roles at £11.53p/h....
...Academics Stephen Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz say it’s time to “let crypto burn”....
...Bank of America published this half-serious chart last month (h/t Brent Donnelly): The whole sector is wobbling. Kraken, a major exchange, laid off 30 per cent of staff on Wednesday....
...A former head of the US Special Forces, Admiral William H McRaven served in dangerous missions as a Navy Seal for 37 years. He also ran the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011....
...UK, Burns Night celebrations in honour of Scotland’s national poet Thursday Australia, Australia Day national holiday India, Republic Day national holiday UK, first edition of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter...
...Their UFO-like creations were also stupidly strong, able to withstand wind speeds beyond 130km/h (their Mavericks group tent can withstand 180km/h winds)....
...her own brand T.H.O.M — an acronym for This Hair Of Mine....
...A slide from Burns: I’m not convinced that we are seeing crash conditions in equities or in real estate....
...How have H&M’s full-year sales — out on Friday — been affected by the state influenced consumer boycotts in China of its clothing?...
...In California, the McFarland Fire is roughly 33 miles away from the Gabrych Ranch offsetting project, a distance that the Sydney-based investment manager New Forests, which developed the scheme, said was...
...Images of “fiddling while the planet burns” obscure the progress being made and underestimate the likely technology improvements to come....
...But as my colleague John Burn-Murdoch points out, if higher population density explains the current outbreak, why did Austria have such a low infection rate until October?...
...But some Fed-watchers and former officials warn that Powell may have to burn much of the political capital he accumulated in recent years if inflation is a bigger problem than anticipated and the central...
...Jimmy Carter When Jimmy Carter entered the Oval Office in 1977, Arthur Burns was Fed chair and facing growing criticism for his handling of inflation since his first appointment by Richard Nixon....
...(Ethan Wu) One good read An explanation of why the rouble has appreciated under sanctions (H/T to @Gilesyb for pointing it out)....
...After a team of Japanese engineers spent months developing a suitably colourful additive, the Olympic flame will burn hydrogen....
...There is a school of thought that says it is a bit of a passing fad and it will crash and burn, and it enjoys some peculiar fiscal advantages through various loopholes that may well eventually be closed....
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