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Greco is top candidate to head rival insurer Zurich
Swiss insurer asks for deadline extension as talks advance over weekend
No certainty RSA will move for an extension, despite friendly talks
...back Carl Icahn demonstrated the power he wields over some of the biggest US companies this week by persuading Xerox, the brand famous for its printers and photocopiers, to break in two, writes Alistair Gray...
Zurich warns it might walk away if potential returns not high enough
Swiss group’s takeover of RSA would offer chance to build onex-RBS chief’s rejig of group
Without the premium offered by Zurich, RSA shareholders would face a long wait for chief to deliver
Plan could help prospective bidder justify premium price tag for FTSE 100 insurer
Biggest tie-up in insurance industry in two decades
Swiss suitor likely to wait until UK insurer reports results before making an offer
CEO’s 15th transaction is another step to building an insurance empire to rival his father’s
...Ms Constance has suggested that some teachers will have to improve....
...Simon Gray in France asks: What time of year are they going to play the 2022 World Cup? In July it is about 50C in the shade in Qatar. Players will be dying, literally. Air-conditioned indoor stadiums?...
...“In every direction, I could see detailed characteristics of the gray, ash-coloured scenery, pocked with thousands of little craters and with every variety and shape of rock,” he writes....
...The elderly US painter John Wesley, often seen as a Pop Art protagonist, loaned an eccentric painting titled “The Last Gray Hound”, which depicts somersaulting greyhounds in pink leotards; it is a work,...
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