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...The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June. Our expert Chris Giles has much to say about this, and other central bank matters, in his excellent newsletter....
...The plan was vetoed by police officials and it wasn’t until May this year that L’hôtel de Maisons came to the table....
...a ‘very sorry state’ L&G chief says UK levelling up policy is ‘failing’ Hedge fund manager who cashed in on EU carbon credit rally bets prices will tumble Farewell In November we said goodbye to Charlie...
...“We’re not gonna do anything,” one official said. “The whole corner-crossing stuff is so up-in-the-air in the state.”...
...In Leeds, officials are proud of local regeneration efforts — the city already ranks fourth in England for annual housing delivery....
...Last year the Arts Council’s chief executive Darren Henley wrote that younger audiences were embracing opera in new ways: “opera in car parks, opera in pubs, opera on your tablet”....
...“A few years ago I was quite frustrated that they weren’t putting him up on stage or in front of the camera,” said Darren Pollock, a portfolio manager at Cheviot, a Berkshire investor....
...And Daniel, his new career as a boxing manager was about to take off. Remember, back in Spain, he helped open a gym called MTK and signed up-and-coming boxers from Ireland and the UK....
...Hashanah dinner in New York City....
...He worked his way up through the curial ranks to eventually become the number two in his own department, and arguably the number two in the entire Vatican....
...Without $6-8.5bn in additional funding from G20 countries to improve “absorption capacity” — the infrastructure to administer the shots — the vaccines would go to waste, he argued....
...Honor remained a Chinese company, being bought out by a consortium led by an asset manager controlled by the city of Shenzhen....
...US officials concurred with the British view and cast doubts on Russian claims of a withdrawal from Ukraine’s cities in the north and west....
...(Simon Mundy) Davos day one in brief Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called for a unique reconstruction model, in which individual countries, cities and companies would take leading roles in rebuilding...
...Eric Trump has his moment in the spotlight in NY fraud probe During his father’s presidency Eric Trump tended to be overshadowed by his older siblings while he focused on running the family business....
...In the US, federal law does not require businesses to offer any sick pay at all, though some states, cities and counties do....
...in city centres....
...“Price-conscious consumers, excess capacity, limited earnings and curtailed economic activity are likely to limit inflation in the near term at least,” said one analyst....
...Things are less rosy in Hong Kong where its top financial official said the pandemic had “derailed the city’s economy”....
...At the city level, from Amsterdam and The Hague to Stockholm and cities such as Norwich and Liverpool in the UK, policies are being passed to end such “badverts” in the public domain....
...The first is that authoritarian governments may use the capacity to monitor individual people on a real-time basis to impose a digital form of totalitarianism....
...“I have never met with or spoken to any of these candidates,” he said, after facing pressure from local officials and complaints to his employer. “How do I know they will act in my interest?”...
...Meanwhile, VIP clients and bank managers found creative ways to offshore money, including by arbitraging between the official exchange rate of L£1,500 to the US dollar and much higher black market rates....
...Snap, for example, came out of a realisation, in the run-up to the second world war, that farm surpluses could be used to feed hungry people in cities....
...Albinder Dhindsa, the co-founder of Indian online grocer Grofers, talks about keeping staff safe and boosting capacity in a crisis in our How to Lead series....
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