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...ING and Maike declined to comment on the case, as did law firms Reed Smith and King & Wood Mallesons, which represent ING and ICBC respectively....
...Smith reckons that hidden stashes of copper, not declared in official inventories but available on the market, help explain why the rebound in prices has not been stronger....
Anil Agarwal is splitting the group into six entities in an effort to raise their valuation
...Glenn Youngkin: For months Virginia’s Republican governor has insisted he is not running for the White House while quietly leaving the door open to an eleventh-hour entrance into the 2024 GOP primary field...
...“It’s not just a programme or project,” added Andrew Smith, director of British Lithium. “It’s an industry being born in the UK.”...
...Medley styled Jada Pinkett Smith for the 2022 Oscars in a dramatic emerald gown by Glenn Martens from the collection he guest-designed for Jean Paul Gaultier Couture....
Indian tycoon Prateek Gupta accused of ‘systematic fraud’ by world’s largest private metals trader
Silver Bank’s shareholder has ties to alleged fraudster Prateek Gupta
Commodity trader alleges the ‘controlling mind’ behind nickel scheme repeatedly tried to stall for time
...Additional reporting by Stephen Morris, Ian Smith and Joshua Franklin...
...Smith said he was not worried about New Glenn’s ability to compete with Starship. “We have a good order book and we can continue to expand that,” he said....
...“I think it would be very difficult for the government to walk away from De Beers completely,” Peter Leon, partner and Africa chair at Herbert Smith Freehills, said....
...Plus, the FT’s Harry Dempsey explains why investors and central banks are piling into the gold market....
...Glenn Hubbard: The talks on raising the debt ceiling could get ugly but they don’t have to, writes the professor of economics and finance at Columbia University....
...Additional reporting for Robert Smith and Joshua Franklin...
...asks Daniel Smith, head of research at AMT. “If it’s the government then they may sit on it longer”, which would keep prices higher longer term....
...(Harry Dempsey) Data Drill The EU will enforce another round of sanctions next week against Russia....
...Reese Witherspoon sold her company Hello Sunshine to Blackstone for $900mn in 2021, for example, and Blackstone-backed Candle Media took a $60mn stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc...
...The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...Adds Smith: “I wanted to play with the traditional tropes of eveningwear but give them a sharper edge.”...
...Additional reporting by George Steer, Ian Smith and Euan Healy in London...
...Additional reporting by Colby Smith...
...“The impact of a UK and EU maritime insurance ban on ships carrying Russian oil cannot be overstated,” said Leigh Hansson, sanctions partner at law firm Reed Smith....
...Leigh Hansson, partner at Reed Smith, another law firm, said the EU’s sanctions amendment was a “big retreat”, adding that lawyers had also been expecting “more robust” measures by now from the UK....
...The Texas comptroller Glenn Hegar then left them off the official list of financial institutions that the state has earmarked for divestment....
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