Cliff Wixson, III

American mockery of Britain masks a deeper insecurity

...For some Americans, the pomp and pageantry of King Charles III’s coronation seemed to all be a bit grandiose and nostalgic for a 21st-century democracy....

May 11, 2023

Scottish independence

Orkney backs freedom bid after being ‘held down’ by Scotland and UK

...Orkney is a fiercely independent archipelago of high cliffs, seal colonies and both Neolithic and Viking burial sites that lies just north of the Scottish mainland....

July 4, 2023

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

US banks

Top US bank watchdog outlines tougher rules for larger lenders

...The proposed new banking rules will come in two forms: the final implementation of new international standards — the so-called Basel III endgame reforms — and a holistic review of capital rules that Barr...

July 10, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps billions of dollars of US stocks

...The investor struck a fairly upbeat tone at the meeting, joking that the coronation of King Charles III was a “competing broadcast” on Saturday....

May 6, 2023

European prime property

Ionian rhapsody: the islands where homebuyers seek an alternative Greece

...Its distinctive white limestone cliffs give way inland to ancient olive groves, alternating with thick dark groves of Cyprus trees....

May 5, 2023

News in-depthNikkei Asia

The Marcos revival: how late Philippine dictator’s son went from exile to election favourite

...He was a senator from 2010 to 2016, during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III, the only son of the Marcos family’s political nemesis. Aquino died last year....

May 4, 2022

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Travel

Can a Nazi holiday resort reinvent itself as a 21st-century beach retreat?

...But all the company’s 250 apartments that fill Block III are due to be finished this year, and have long since been snapped up by purchasers....

September 9, 2022

Due Diligence

The car vendor on a collision course with short sellers Premium

...If short sellers don’t drive the company off a cliff, its controlling shareholders just might....

November 4, 2022

Clearing & Settlement

Brussels vows ‘no cliff edge’ over EU banks’ access to UK clearing

...Among the other matters looming in McGuinness’s portfolio is the launch of new bank capital rules implementing the global Basel III accord....

October 18, 2021

News in-depthNikkei Asia

Noynoy Aquino’s death gives Duterte dynasty upper hand in Philippines

...Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, the former Philippine president and son of two of the country’s greatest democracy icons, died from kidney disease on June 24 at the age of 61....

July 6, 2021

Visual Arts

Villa of masterpieces: Luigi Magnani’s hidden gems in Parma

...His last purchases — he died in 1984 — especially show his longing for serenity: Canova’s idealised life-size “Terpsichore” celebrating the muse of dance, and “Cliffs at Pourville, Sunrise”, a vaporous pale...

September 19, 2020

Visual Arts

The making of Impressionism

...Plattner brought at auction “Poplars”, the dappled frieze of riverside trees, one row still bright in the sunset, the second already cast in violet shadow, sold by New York’s Museum of Modern Art; “On the Cliffs...

August 19, 2020

Prime property

The Waldorf Astoria — the monster of Manhattan

...John Jacob Astor III’s house became a nexus for New York society and on his death in 1890, the site was passed to his son William Waldorf Astor (who later in England became a peer and bought Cliveden and...

July 17, 2020

Due Diligence

Big Chips: megadeals roar back to life Premium

...Here’s how this deal works: Churchill Capital Corp III raised $1.1bn in February in a public listing....

July 14, 2020

News in-depthNikkei Asia

Philippine president struggles to sell his China pivot at home Premium

...Then president Benigno Aquino III took the issue to an arbitration court in The Hague in 2013....

October 13, 2019

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

UK holidays

Tintagel: a short-cut to Camelot

...The craggy headland on the coast of north Cornwall was chosen by King Henry III’s brother Richard not for strategic advantage, but for symbolic and nostalgic currency....

August 8, 2019

Eurozone economy

ECB’s lending operations fail to ignite bank lending

...The minutes from that meeting, released last week, showed that the ECB considered that an early announcement of a new phase was needed “in the light of looming cliff effects related to maturing TLTRO-II...

April 10, 2019

Equities

Markets Now - Tuesday 19th May 2020

...focusing on the heaving lifting of digital transformation through Enterprise DevOps, Hybrid IT Management, Predictive Analytics and Security, Risk & Governance; (ii) it has 40,000 global customers; and (iii...

May 19, 2020

Equities

Markets Now - Wednesday 27th May 2020

...“Everybody has a summer holiday,” sang Cliff Richard & The Shadows in the 1963 hit Summer Holiday, which was the title track of the soundtrack album for the hit movie Summer Holiday (1963)....

May 27, 2020

8 great swims round the world – from Norway to New York

Swimming in the desert: an adventure along the shores of Lake Turkana

...We camped on the lake shore, at the foot of the crater’s cliffs....

July 5, 2019

UK business

Why the ‘Boris bounce’ is likely to be shortlived

...Sonali Punhani: The new cliff-edge risk shifts to December 2020....

January 1, 2020

Life & Arts

Simon Schama: When Britain chose Europe

...It remained, however, for Napoleon III and the more hawkish of his ministers to be persuaded that open commercial borders would not harm French national interests....

February 28, 2019

InterviewHow to Lead

New York-Presbyterian’s Steven Corwin: keeping costs down

...“What I’m worried about, what I don’t want to do, is get to the point where we just fall off a cliff . . .[and] we have to lay off a lot of people,” he says....

October 21, 2018

UK business

UK economists’ survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries

...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....

January 3, 2021

FT AlphavilleBrexit

Some dissenting Brexit views from an econo-remainer

...Carney — as advocate in chief for Basle III — and his like to go....

January 3, 2018

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