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...In 2024. hell for private equity firms is a clogged IPO market and a backdrop of dormant M&A interest. They have been trapped with a “towering backlog” of an estimated $3tn of assets to sell....
...“It’s not really where I’m at.” Brown swings between seeming terrified of nationalism and insisting things can improve. “Britain’s got major problems, partly because of Brexit and everything else....
...“I’m very happy with them.” This article has been amended since publication to clarify that the valuation Douglas is seeking includes debt...
...Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said M&S’s “bread-and-butter customers” had “higher disposable incomes, which is partly why the chain is showing such resilience”....
...A brown lump on a brown mound. An audacious rebuttal of the assertion that we eat with our eyes....
...A two-tone pint has become the safe choice, a wink and a nod that says, “I’m cool, unbothered, one of the gang.”...
...“I’m quite happy about it and I [shall] go on working for as long as I want to.”...
...Dear reader, After a week off, I’m catching up on the Lex column’s output myself. And there is plenty to chew over....
...“The relentless M&A and the de-equitisation, the lack of refilling the hopper is starting to bite quite hard,” he said. “I’m not convinced the IPO market is going to open soon.”...
...Douglas looked as though he’d thrown on something found at the bottom of Sharon Stone’s wardrobe, the morning after the night before....
...And, if I were to acquiesce in their advice, what would become of my own chestnut-brown leather sofa, the centrepiece of my living space?...
...The waters are two different colours, brown and blue. It’s the most beautiful thing to see. What would you have done differently?...
...“I’m chancellor because I want to change that,” he told the House of Lords economic affairs committee....
...“If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going,” was long a cherished slogan of the aircraft giant....
...I’m not alone in having felt that terrible pit in the stomach when the vote was announced — and we may be about to go through it again.”...
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about the future of the United Nations....
...“After a long line of pretty arrogant (male) CEOs at Boeing, I’m hoping that she will bring some normality.”...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...Five (Alec Douglas-Home, John Major, Gordon Brown, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak) did so when their party was in a degree of electoral and political trouble....
...“I’m very suspicious about people making films about the Holocaust,” he admits. “I was even suspicious of myself.”...
...Why The property was designed in the 1950s by Douglas Snelling, an Australian architect who drew on Southern Californian style and built the house as his family home....
...Fire is based on the memoirs of journalist Charles M Blow, recounting his upbringing in rural Louisiana....
...Now try this I’m off to see the Aurora Orchestra reimagine Schubert’s Winterreise at the South Bank tomorrow, see you again Monday. However you spend it, have a wonderful weekend....
...I wonder whether Sherrod Brown is going to wear with honour his 99 per cent voting record with Joe Biden....
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