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...This region’s collective gross domestic product was Rmb12.6tn ($1.97tn) in 2021, surpassing South Korea’s....
...The GEO sees UK GDP falling by 11.2 per cent in 2020 and rising by 4.1 per cent in 2021. Our equivalent forecasts for developed countries overall are -5.4 per cent and + 4.5 per cent respectively....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...A surge in Catalonia from fewer than 1,000 cases last week to more than 11,500 has increased tension with Madrid amid calls to shut down almost the entire economy....
...For the equivalent-sized flat in Shepherd’s Bush with a schlep from the Tube station I would pay £1,600 a month. Add to that a zones 1&2 Travelcard at £138 a month....
...The Minitaur’s offspring may one day scout out dangerous combat zones, deploy bombs or fire weapons....
...Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM), which carries the name of the Texan televangelist who founded it, is a proud owner of a Gulfstream V private jet....
...That compares with 2,600 Chinese troops deployed under UN mandates — China’s only foreign military deployments in conflict zones....
...Here, Britain does the mentoring. With three intakes a year, it is designed to produce 1,140 officers annually, of whom 90 are women....
...Slim as it was, the commercial exclusion zone around a new movie often felt like the last buffer around film itself....
...It was $70bn in 2013; by 2016, defence analysts IHS Jane’s predict it to have risen to $100bn....
...Clive Cookson Art Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases...
...When I became chancellor, the deficit was forecast to reach 11.1% of national income — the highest level in the peacetime history of Britain....
...He and his wife Jane have donated works such as Taryn Simon’s A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-11) to Tate, and Bruce Davidson’s entire “Subway” series of colour photographs from the early...
...Mrs Soane died in 1815 and it’s 11 years after that, in 1826, that he bought all those cork models. God knows why he did it....
...In 2010, the deficit we inherited was estimated to be 11.1% of national income. This year it is set to be almost a third of that, 3.9%....
...Amazon’s first desks were old doors; to recommend, as the Monocle guide does, a leather top you can get from a website so expensive that it does not even post prices is a kind of sick joke....
...Markit iTraxx Xover -11.08bps at 354.11bp Markit CDX IG -1.53bps at 70bp Sources: FT, Bloomberg, Markit You can sign up for FirstFT here....
...zones....
...This philosopher does a better job and with more humour....
...Jane Owen ——————————————- Illustration by Chris Wormell...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...), the magazine n+1 has come of age....
...Italy V Ireland....
...By John Aglionby, Tom Burgis and Esther Bintliff on the news desk in London with contributions from correspondents around the world. All times are GMT....
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