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...Nikki Haley, another Republican candidate, told Fox News this week: “I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President...
...Lowe, by her own admission, was not a savvy businesswoman and told the Saturday Evening Post in 1964: “Not counting the dollars going into a dress but just the beauty that came out of it . . ....
...In 20 years and counting under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule, Istanbul has transformed. Officially, the city’s population has doubled to 16mn, almost as big as London and New York put together....
...But the vast majority are counting on government contracts to keep them going, rather than households or businesses....
Overstating promise of emerging field threatens to skew valuations and progress in biotech sector
...“The bloom is coming off the rose,” said Mark Witzke, an analyst at Rhodium, who notes that China’s official FDI figures are inflated by factors such as counting multinationals’ earnings in China as investments...
...Tech tools — Death’s Door In this role-playing game now released on multiple platforms, you are a fledgling crow who is a new employee at a supernatural bureau of avian grim reapers....
...David Crow is the FT’s US news editor Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Lyall’s partner Lori Watson — who plays fiddle throughout — chants a mantra about counting and waiting, close to the microphone so it sounds like an intimate whisper....
...When asked what he thought of the speech, Mitt Romney, the Utah senator considered among the most moderate Republicans, responded: “Well, $6tn and counting. I’m sure Bernie was happy.”...
...Companies are counting on the incoming Biden administration, which will include a number of tech-friendly officials from Barack Obama’s time in the White House, to help them stand up to Europe....
...RBS expects to spend £100m to £150m on its Brexit preparations and is counting on running costs of about £100m a year as a result of both Brexit and the UK’s new rules on banks ringfencing their consumer...
...Iran, with which Mr Biden has committed to resuming talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, was among the regimes queueing up to crow over the US’s domestic vulnerabilities....
...After a few minutes of inactivity at a workstation, the clock begins counting, and too much down time can lead to the sack....
...Also counting against Mr Bramson has been a rebound in securities trading income at Barclays this year, helping increase pre-tax profit at the corporate and investment bank by 17 per cent in the first half...
Lenders that triggered financial crash are now being asked to funnel stimulus money to companies and individuals
...want to quote Blankfein and say we’re doing ‘God’s work’, but at least it feels like we’re on the side of the good this time round,” one banker who advised the UK government in 2008 tells the FT’s David Crow...
...I’m late to this but I strongly recommend James Oakes’ essay in The New York Review of Books about the failure of post-civil war reconstruction and the victory of Jim Crow....
...The next virus pandemic is not far away, writes David Crow. Scientists say new diseases will jump from animals unless humans change the way they live....
...Being based in San Francisco and counting Google as a client is not enough to warrant a tech-style multiple....
...Farrell is well-connected, counting among his contacts Eton classmate Ben Elliot, co-chairman of the Conservative party, whose aunt is the Duchess of Cornwall....
...PNC paid approximately $240m to acquire BlackRock in 1995 so it is pocketing just over 70 times its initial investment and that’s without counting the dividends it has gleaned over the 25-year period....
...He added: “We thought if we just take published economist predictions . . . they may not be counting some downside risk, so we decided to add to that.”...
...He stopped counting cranes at 28. More are due imminently: delayed plans for a new layout in the centre of town are regathering pace....
...Many investors are now counting on a steady increase in Alphabet’s stock repurchases as its search advertising business continues to mature — much as Apple responded to an end of growth in iPhone volumes...
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