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...Is the younger Douglas particularly religious? “I’m not, but I’m proud to be a member of the tribe. My mother was Episcopalian and as I grew up, I wasn’t considered a Jew....
...In 2024. hell for private equity firms is a clogged IPO market and a backdrop of dormant M&A interest. They have been trapped with a “towering backlog” of an estimated $3tn of assets to sell....
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...“I’m very happy with them.” This article has been amended since publication to clarify that the valuation Douglas is seeking includes debt...
...I’m just gonna . . . Christine Braamskamp Oh yes. Absolutely. And then I get terribly cross with myself when I don’t set the line....
...In 1980, when 37 people died in the burning of the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, and the M-19, a Colombian guerrilla group, held diplomats hostage at the Dominican Republic’s embassy in Bogotá....
...Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said M&S’s “bread-and-butter customers” had “higher disposable incomes, which is partly why the chain is showing such resilience”....
...I guess I’m wondering, though, what could hold the country back from capitalising on the fact it’s become so attractive to investors? Christine Murray So there are a lot of drags on this phenomenon....
...“I’m just observing,” she says....
...“I’m quite happy about it and I [shall] go on working for as long as I want to.”...
...“I’m still asking myself . . . how did this change happen?” said Lina Vega, president of Panamanian non-profit Fundación Libertad Ciudadana....
...“I considered myself a cautious optimist on the nearshoring issue — I think now I’m more optimistic,” said Miguel Ángel Alcaráz, a partner at McKinsey in Mexico City, who recently returned from talking to...
...“The relentless M&A and the de-equitisation, the lack of refilling the hopper is starting to bite quite hard,” he said. “I’m not convinced the IPO market is going to open soon.”...
...I’m happy with that. Neuraé will launch on 2 April at neuraeparis.com...
...Douglas Webster and Douglas Mitchell were particularly grateful in 1929 for the whisky someone had left behind at Corrour, which they used for hot toddies to wash down their “hoosh” (Antarctic survival stew...
...Dear reader, After a week off, I’m catching up on the Lex column’s output myself. And there is plenty to chew over....
...I’m Claire Jones, the Financial Times’ acting US economics editor and I’m standing in for Chris Giles this week....
...But I’m not advocating that at the moment,” Stubb said....
...She previewed some of its material at a few gigs last summer, including a captivating London show for Christine and the Queens’ Meltdown Festival....
...And here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: ‘Hush money’ case: Opening arguments begin in the criminal trial of Donald Trump....
...“If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going,” was long a cherished slogan of the aircraft giant....
...“We’re young people — I’m 21, my friend’s 23. We want to work.”...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...“After a long line of pretty arrogant (male) CEOs at Boeing, I’m hoping that she will bring some normality.”...
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