Hints and tips:
...Mooted internal candidates Murray Auchincloss, the interim chief executive, Emma Delaney and Carol Howle, are all BP lifers....
...They offer no explanation, but former New York Fed chief Bill Dudley has. In his interview with Unhedged last year, Dudley told us: M2 is going to be correlated with the shift from QE to QT....
...Bob Dudley, the only recent chief executive who was not a BP lifer (having joined through the Amoco merger in 1998), served 10 years before stepping down in 2020....
...It’s going to be hard to follow Reider, Olivier Blanchard and Bill Dudley. Let us know who you would like to hear from on future Fridays: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...After Carol’s departure, Babol said he no longer watches the group’s live-streaming shows. “I felt like something was missing,” he said....
...It was a season in which I felt mended and exalted, as though I were a Christmas carol belted out by angelic choirs....
...That’s really borrowed from Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindset versus fixed mindset....
...Phillip Orlik is vice-president for sales and regional head for western Europe at Germany-headquartered medical devices business B. Braun....
...De Bolla has been buying PYCM wines from his second-ever vintage, from Colin-Morey’s UK importer A&B Vintners....
...“Fall in Love at Christmas” (★★★☆☆) is a 1990s R&B/hip-hop throwback with piercing whistle singing, a carol-singing breakdown, a gospel choir and slinky co-vocals from singer Khalid....
...“For the electric vehicle company to justify the stratospheric $1tn stock market valuation it hit this week (while remarkably still bearing a subinvestment credit rating of double B plus), Tesla has to be...
...Kennedy, Dublin Crossword 16,230: Harjit Grewal, London; Lyn Sheeran, Switzerland; Michael Johnson, London Polymath 1,032: DM Macarthur, Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol...
...(The sequence in clue B refers to the female leads in the four versions of the film A Star Is Born.)...
...The property, on sale with Julia B Fee Sotheby’s International Realty, is in Long Island Sound, accessible by boat, and comes with neighbouring Pea Island, which acts as its de-facto five-acre backyard....
...After a more than 8m b/d fall in 2020 the International Energy Agency expects recovery of nearly 6m b/d next year....
...Brian Gilvary, the UK oil major’s chief financial officer, said 300,000-500,000 barrels a day were at risk this year — a big chunk of 1.2m b/d growth initially expected by the company and global energy agencies...
...Once a major producer, Alaska now makes up a fraction of total US output of more than 12m b/d. The state accounts for about 500,000 b/d, down from a peak of 2m b/d in 1988....
...Bob Dudley, BP’s then CEO, said: “India is set to be the world’s largest growth market for energy by the mid-2020s.”...
...Because if it is just to entertain people, and it’s a flippant detective drama, then (a) other people are going to be better at that than me and (b) my parents won’t be very proud of me for doing it.”...
...Boris Johnson wants to banish the “B word” from British politics at 11pm on Friday....
...The first zombies are dealt with amusingly and bring more cameos — Carol Kane must have spent hours in make-up for her transformation; Iggy Pop perhaps not so much....
...(FT) BP chief to step down Bob Dudley will step down as chief executive of BP next year after leading the company through a turbulent decade, taking it from near collapse after the Deepwater Horizon disaster...
...“Retainer” added a rhapsodic grand piano interlude, bassist Kaya Thomas-Dyke sang folk-inflected R&B on “Falling” and Mist rapped convincingly on “Closer” from an earlier CD....
...Bob Dudley of BP said “we are operating in a world that is not on a sustainable path”, and suggested there was a need for “a step change to correct our course” on emissions....
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