Hints and tips:
...One thing to start: German sandal maker Birkenstock is seeking a valuation of more than $8bn from an initial public offering, as its private equity owner L Catterton unveiled its filing for a stock market...
...“We shouldn’t give up on DB because the average duration is still 15 years,” says Nigel Wilson, chief executive of L&G....
...While not an Oxford Tory, Kuper is an Oxonian who went to that university at roughly the same time as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan, Dominic Cummings and Jacob Rees-Mogg, all notable student...
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s defence of Dominic Cummings has provoked a furious backlash. Attempts to justify a 264-mile lockdown trip have failed to silence calls for the top aide’s resignation....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...But Mr Cummings said Democrats had to be careful over their approach....
...Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming will be in the same space just before them in a new staging of Beckett’s mordant existentialist classic Endgame (Old Vic from January 27)....
...“Mr Cummings is busily briefing the press over the past few days about how he’s going to run the government, but he still hasn’t given any clear direction.”...
...In January, Mr Cummings will take over as chair of the House Oversight Committee....
...That means that investors may buy a share in, say, L’Oréal in either France or the UK, depending on where the best prices and liquidity are....
...When I joined Aifa it was kind of moribund and I was responsible for changing its business model, giving it a new P & L, reconnecting it to its membership and delivering quite a lot of organisational change...
...One shareholder, Aviva's David Cumming, came out on Monday to publicly voice his support for Melrose. Natixis gobbles up more M&A boutiques Natixis is on an M&A roll....
...Team Dimension Data rider Stephen Cummings of Britain wins, on 162.5 km Stage 7 from L’Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle, of the Tour de France on Friday...
...Once he understood the bankruptcy landscape, he put together a bid for a part of the collection — about 4,500 photographs — that had been held under contract at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...And Garratt is far from the first to be captivated by them: author L Frank Baum borrowed their eerie charm for the character of the Scarecrow in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while crucified scarecrows appeared...
...Sir Noel Murless, Elliott Burch in the US, Bart Cummings, TJ Smith and Colin Hayes in Australia gave me some tutelage....
...Barclays hopes £2bn profit will quell Diamond pay row - Interest rates could start to rise soon, says Andrew Sentance - United States curbs use of extra $430bn of IMF firepower - Peter Cummings...
...Glencore, Prada, Rusal, Samsonite and L’Occitane all chose Hong Kong....
...Schroders, Invesco, Aberdeen Asset Management, and L&G also hold stakes bigger than Standard Life’s....
...They also show impairments at HBOS Corporate – the bit run by Peter Cummings, the lender of choice for Britain’s entreprenuer - of 11.9%....
...Cumming; Elizabeth A. Duke; Richard W. Fisher; Donald L. Kohn; Randall S. Kroszner; Sandra Pianalto; Charles I. Plosser; Gary H. Stern; and Kevin M. Warsh....
...Abbey and A&L have had similarly priced mortgage ranges in recent years, but A&L has built up a reputation for providing more flexible lending criteria....
...David Cumming, head of UK equities at Standard Life Investments, which owns about 2.4 per cent of A&L, said Santander was acquiring A&L on “giveaway terms”....
...When Monteverdi wrote L’incoronazione di Poppea for republican Venice in 1642, he devised an opera not about mythical archetypes but – a probable first for the nascent art form – about real human beings....
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