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...Get in touch with your thoughts about this newsletter — or anything else — via helen.thomas@ft.com or lexfeedback@ft.com. Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...A source of deepening concern is the Second Thomas Shoal, a reef in the Spratly Islands inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone....
...Controlled by French billionaire Bernard Arnault, LVMH is regarded as a bellwether for the industry because of its size and the range of the 75 brands it owns, which include Louis Vuitton and Dior....
...some small and medium-sized producers are particularly angry at the levy as they feel they are bearing the brunt of a policy that was partly introduced in response to comments made by BP chief executive Bernard...
...Letter in response to this article: Big companies should pay suppliers more promptly / From Hannah Bernard, Head of Business Banking, Barclays, London E14, UK...
...L Catterton — which was created in 2016 through a partnership between a private equity firm, French luxury group LVMH and founder Bernard Arnault’s family investment vehicle — will pay €43 per share for...
...Thomas Hale has more details from Shanghai. The Big Read By 2045, about $90tn in the US alone is set to be transferred from those born before 1964 to their heirs....
...In today’s newsletter: BP’s CEO is out The Barclay’s billion-dollar debt The DoJ takes on Google BP’s future-minded chief makes a premature exit In a shock move on Tuesday, BP boss Bernard Looney resigned...
...Bernard Looney has resigned as chief executive of BP after admitting he failed to disclose the extent of past personal relationships with colleagues, the company has said....
...Dylan Thomas threw up on the carpet, idler Jeffrey Bernard idled there, and artists made their names merely by signing the guest book....
...At the very end of the 18th century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, had been appointed “ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim...
...normal sea-surface temperatures had “recently expanded across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific”, it said Sea surface temperatures in the north Atlantic ocean rose to unprecedented highs in June Thomas...
...Among them are the family holding company of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund....
...A couple of hours before the FT broke the news that BP’s chief executive, Bernard Looney, was resigning after a number of unreported relationships with colleagues, Paul Murphy, the FT’s investigations editor...
...Three of Bernard Arnault’s sons, Antoine, Alexandre and Frédéric, have executive roles within the group....
...This is not The Thomas Crown Affair....
...The departure of BP chief executive Bernard Looney has thrown its renewable energy strategy into doubt. Looney resigned yesterday over past relationships with colleagues....
...February 28 to August 26; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Le Portrait de Dorian Gray’ and ‘Les Trois Soeurs’, Théâtre le Ranelagh Thomas Le Douarec brings Oscar Wilde’s fantastical novel...
...De Giorgi was most recently co-chief of Pegasus Europe, the blank-cheque company backed by Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier....
...Legal ethics During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle far beyond what his income could provide....
...In 1801, after the close call at Marengo, David, using his son sitting atop a ladder since the great man refused to pose, painted Napoleon crossing the St Bernard pass, his mount’s legs lifted in the levade...
...Thomas Dane Gallery now represents the in-demand South African multimedia artist Igshaan Adams (born 1982), his first UK representative....
...Paris is a forum for tycoons such as Bernard Arnault and Xavier Niel. Mumbai has more powerful dynasties than Ancient Egypt....
...But Bernard doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon, as Lex notes....
...And Clement Picquet is at high school with his identical twin brother Thomas — a school just outside Paris. Clement PicquetWe had a computer in his bedroom. We’re sharing one computer....
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