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...Sotheby’s provided the top-billing celebrity sale of the year, with its £40mn auction of 1,406 items that belonged to the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury....
...It also formed the basis for a show, or “ritual” in Chris’s billing, that could charitably be described as confusing. The scene for the attempted act of necromancy was the Royal Festival Hall....
...Cash cow: For investors, the EU’s collective debt bonanza has failed to live up to its billing, writes Moritz Kraemer....
...What to watch today EU leaders meet for second summit day in Brussels, including a briefing from ECB president Christine Lagarde....
...Fed and ECB diverge While US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell struck an optimistic note this week, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde was far gloomier....
...Here’s what to watch for at what Schwab is billing as the most consequential annual meeting since the WEF’s creation in 1971....
...Christine Lagarde tweeted a photo of these unlikely protesters in the cavernous atrium of the IMF’s HQ2 building....
...Should it change hands from hawkish incumbent Wopke Hoekstra to progressive former diplomat Sigrid Kaag, the sea change in Dutch politics may well live up to its billing....
...For all her blockbuster billing, the nomination of Christine Lagarde as the eurozone’s top economic official has raised more than a few eyebrows at the European Central Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt....
...[But] I think that fiscal policy taking equal billing is a significant move forward.”...
...Berlin is billing the Dresden event as informal....
...There are no weak links but star billing has to go to the matriarchal duo, Christine Murillo’s buxom battleaxe and Christiane Millet’s snob with the unexpectedly foul mouth, so proud of her bridegroom son...
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