Hints and tips:
...The addition of the “+” countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Mexico et al) to the cartel have increased its market share....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...And they said that the problem is that there's not necessarily an account in Switzerland saying, V Putin, $50bn Swiss francs. That's not how it works....
...(China is a distant second, at $46bn, according to Euromonitor.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...If human rights, fair trial, et. al were the real issues, then why are more of these criminals not landing up in the US, Australia, etc.?...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...” – The Essar-Rosneft (et al) deal made StanChart v happy. – A Penn Wharton tax budget policy simulator. – Unemployment in America, mapped over time. – Hindus for Trump sounds like it was… fun....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...Moroccan king in US King Mohammed VI of Morocco meets US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, to strengthen their strategic partnership and to seek support for Morocco’s reform agenda...
...With a smattering of celebrity in Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels, it will also illustrate the significance of pearls in Asia, including imperial robes from China....
...Stephen Green et al at Standard Chartered fill out the picture a little more....
...The event, which featured jockeys Frankie Dettori and Johnny Murtagh, saw the relaunch of the King George V cup, last competed for in 1911....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...thought-provoking of the “China bears”....
...In ancient China and Africa bronzes were not regarded as works of art, but rather as objects which served both practical and religious ends....
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