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Drought in Panama and shipping attacks near Suez threaten supply chains at festive season
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes bold attempt to lure container traffic
...Additional reporting by Oliver Telling in London...
Restrictions triggered by lack of rain are likely to occur ‘again and again’ as climate change worsens
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...What to watch today Final day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, featuring remarks from ECB president Christine Lagarde and IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva....
...Indeed happiness is now officially a thing in corporate life to help improve staff morale, according to my colleague Oliver Balch. How are you feeling?...
...Monetary policy: Martin Wolf interviews the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, at the third and final day of the FT Global Boardroom event....
...The Scot, who with his wife Christine runs Scotland’s Music/Taigh na Teud, a specialist music bookshop on the Isle of Skye, was preparing to ship parcels for Burns Night when he found out that they may not...
...BMW chief Oliver Zipse warned that the forthcoming EU ban on combustion engines was pushing European carmakers into a deadly price war with Chinese rivals....
...“While these changes wouldn’t be a big deal from a macroeconomic perspective, at the margin they may change the narrative and discussion at the ECB council meeting,” said Oliver Rakau, an economist at research...
...Here is the FT’s Josh Oliver....
...Downstairs, a more club-like vibe pertains (apparently the room is where Christine Keeler met John Profumo)....
...“Wholesale gas and electricity prices point to another large fall of German producer prices in January,” said Oliver Rakau, chief German economist at Oxford Economics....
...ECB president Christine Lagarde suggested the bloc’s new crypto rule book “should regulate the activities of crypto-asset staking and lending”....
...energy crisis, Ofgem has sought advice from all of the Big Four consultancies — Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — as well as advisers from PA Consulting, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, FTI Consulting, Oliver...
...(H/T to my colleague Joshua Oliver, who sat through it so you didn’t have to) Soundbite of the week: FTX, the company you’ve never heard of This week’s FT Crypto and Digital Assets Summit was packed with...
...Christine Lagarde has embraced the project since taking over as ECB president in 2019 from Mario Draghi, who barely mentioned the idea....
...When Christine Lagarde on Thursday sets out the European Central Bank’s plans to end eight years of bond-buying and negative interest rates, she can count on the support of the vast majority of her fellow...
...Among those who pushed for action was Christine Lagarde, the European Central Bank president....
Investors say Nayib Bukele’s scheme could push the country further away from access to traditional debt markets
...Vodafone has appointed Christine Ramon, the former finance chief of South African miner AngloGold Ashanti, as a non-executive director....
...This could prove particularly sensitive for new viruses or variants of — say Covid or the resurgent monkeypox — that would require entirely new test kits, said Oliver Bisazza, director-general for industrial...
...Italian government debt moved in tandem following a press conference by ECB president Christine Lagarde....
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