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...Instagram analysis of an H&M advert featuring virtual influencer Kuki found that it reached 11 times more people and resulted in a 91 per cent decrease in cost per person remembering the advert, compared...
...Cassandra decided in old age to preserve her sister’s reputation, and burnt most of Jane Austen’s letters, retaining only the more innocuous....
...“I have the votes within my reach to be prime minister, but I do not accept the price I’m being asked to pay,” he said. “I am unable to agree to what you are going to agree to.”...
...Spain: Parliament votes on a bid by the country’s conservative opposition Popular party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to become the next prime minister....
...There are three pressure points I’m watching closely. The first and most important is the fact that this just isn’t a normal business cycle....
...That has certainly been the case for retailing behemoth H&M, which discloses third-quarter figures on Wednesday....
...At about €15,000 per sq m, it is half of the price of St Moritz and Verbier....
...So, to some extent I’m not worried of that. It’s true that there are two things that can be more problematic....
...“I’m not only referring to his close political friendship with Vladimir Putin, but [his] incalculable behaviour,” Schmidt said....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: The UK reports labour market figures, while Germany has its June consumer price index and ZEW’s economic sentiment survey....
...Marc Filippino Simon says the centre-right People’s party looks set to win on Sunday under its new leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo....
...I’m not gonna deceive you like the others.” barney.jopson@ft.com...
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Results: Tesla, Netflix, IBM, United Airlines and Halliburton also report earnings today....
...“A line was crossed,” Laurent Nuñez, Paris police prefect, said of the attack, speaking on BFM TV....
...Well, I’m having none of it. Markets have calmed, but further drops are a chance to average down in my view. Warren Buffett agrees....
...(The work’s title alludes to the Cheshire Cat’s “I’m not crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”)...
...The average sale price in “Crans” is SFr10,200 per sq m, according to UBS....
...In my case it was my ‘story’; the fact that I’m not the conventional prince that everybody expected,” he says, an expressive hand sweeps the length of his still match-fit body....
...“I’m paid to be prepared,” he says....
...Still reeling, he told an FT reporter: “I’m finished.” Yet Crastes was not totally done....
...“I’m here on the edge of metamorphosis.” So reads the epigraph — borrowed from the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire — to Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September....
...Marianela Núñez as Princess Aurora and Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Florimund are simply sublime....
...I’m talking about artificial intelligence....
...That these are just the croakings of a Cassandra....
...But I’m not quite ready to make that argument. We’ll keep watching housing closely. One good read In America today, Dylan Thomas’ great poem about a British child seems timely....
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