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...Gassan Al-Kibsi, chair of McKinsey’s Middle East business, and Homayoun Hatami, former managing partner in France, round out the list....
...He gently criticises Carter for being too focused on details and Obama for not responding with cruise missiles to Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...HMZ House by Lucio Muniain et al; lmetal.com.mx...
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...Here’s a quick list of recent mega-transactions either in the works or agreed: Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy cardiovascular technology group Abiomed for $16.6bn including debt....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...The well-connected Old Etonian has served as the Tories’ co-chair since 2019 when Boris Johnson, the prime minister, appointed him to energise the party’s fundraising....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...Trump et al v....
...Boris Johnson, prime minister, had urged the lifting of lockdown in May....
...While based in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, he met Alma Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, then an audiologist in Boston....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
...Witnessing the old ledgers seemingly at random, letting the history and glamour just spill out, I felt like Howard Carter (or do I mean Howard Cartier?)...
...Mishcon de Reya sent an initial letter to Leslie, followed by about a dozen from a second firm, Carter Ruck....
...In their astute article on the much heralded reform of the British civil service (“The smashing of the British state”, Magazine, FT Weekend, October 10), Sebastian Payne et al. asked perhaps the most pertinent...
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