Hints and tips:
...Stuff I have enjoyed this week I was intrigued by this report from FT colleagues Kenza Bryan and Joe Daniels about debt-for-nature swaps....
...The purchase by London-based Stanley Gibbons amounts to more than a third of the market capitalisation of the Aim-listed company....
...“Obsolescence has been underestimated in real estate generally . . . what’s happening in relation to the environment is exacerbating that,” said Daniel McHugh, chief investment officer at Aviva Investors...
...Thanks to their huge record collection, he spent his childhood in Iceland growing to love music from Gibbons and Byrd to Thomas Adès and John Adams....
...The close affinity between infection and fiction is evident in one of the earliest English novels: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year....
...Garry Gibbon of Channel Four News reports Whitehall sources saying that “though the Foreign Secretary is the most likely to quit he is by no means a certainty to do that”....
...(Crain’s New York) Burger King’s boy wonder How Daniel Schwartz, the 36-year-old 3G Capital partner and financial wunderkind, saved Burger King....
...In many ways Brexit begins with Daniel Hannan, a Conservative member of the European Parliament....
...The firm, which was taken private in 2014, is part of Stanley Gibbons, an amorphous grouping of various art businesses....
...Other companies in the portfolio are: AB Dynamics, Netplay TV, H&T, Record, Crystal Amber, Mountview Estates, Arbuthnot Banking, Pittards and Stanley Gibbons....
...As he talks, his own “team” — actors Peter Wight, Daniel Mays and Calvin Demba — drift back in from lunch....
...Stanley Gibbons has taken a while to get to this point....
...Daniel Aitkenhead, a communications manager living in London, owned a 1976 Ferrari 308 GT4 for six years....
...Tom Gibbons, corporate vice-president of Microsoft, said....
...a) Olympus Q1 Y10.39 (-Y16.70) Rio Tinto FY (H1 estimate) $5.14 ($5.03) SandRidge Mississippian H1 $0.57 ($0.49) Savills FY (H1 estimate) 36.76p (33.70p) Standard Life H1 10.30p (10.80p) Stanley Gibbons...
...John Gibbons, head of JPMorgan’s treasury services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, says: “It is a strong business in that it requires relatively little capital and provides a constant revenue stream...
...The capture of the mulberry silkworm may have seemed a frivolous breakthrough for some – the great historian Edward Gibbon lamented that instead, the Byzantines should have learnt from the Chinese how to...
...- SocGen Chairman Daniel Bouton to resign — Reuters....
...Caligula, whom Gibbon portrayed as one among many psychopaths greedy for the imperial purple, is here just another mixed-up bore....
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